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Acridotheres tristis, its habits in India. T. P. Norgate, Zool. 9685-9687. 
Pastor roseiis is figured. J. Gould, B. G. B. part vii. 
Ch'eadion carunculatus, its nest and eggs described. E. P. Ramsay, Ibis, 
1865, p. 156. 
Ptilonorhynchus holoserieeuSj with its bower, is figured. J. Wolf, Zool. 
Sketches, 2nd ser. 
Paradiseid^. 
Schlegelia calva, Bernstein,” is figured, N. T, D., 1866, Vogels, pi. 7, and 
the account formerly given of it {cf. Zool. Record, i. p. 86) translated into 
French, op. cit. pp. 4-7 ; into German, J. f. 0. 1864, pp. 401-406. Supposed 
to be identical with Diphyllodes wilsoni, Cassin (Journ. Acad. Philad. ii. pi.’ 
16), P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 465; Ibis, 1866, pp. 343, 344. Their 
identity accepted, H. Schlegel, N. T. B. 1866, p. 249. 
Corvids. 
Cot'vus coronoides, its nest and eggs described. In New South Wales 
there are two distinct races, if not species, one with white, the other with 
dark irides. The eggs of these two birds differ. E. P. Ramsay, Ibis, 1865, 
pp. 303, 304. The birds with white irides are adult. J. Gould, Handb. B. 
Austral, i. p. 476. 
Corvus splendens (?), its habits in India. T. P. Norgate, Zool. pp. 9649- 
9663. 
Lycocorax morotensis and L. ohmisis are described as new species, — the 
former, first indicated by Prof. Schlegel some years since (Ibis, 1863, p. 119), 
from the islands of Mortay and Rau, resembles L. pyrrhopterus, but is to 
be distinguished by its considerable size and the second to seventh wing- 
quills being white at the base of their inner webs ; the latter is from the Obi 
Islands, and differs from both the species just named by being intermediate 
in size, having a dull green half-metallic gloss over the whole body, except- 
ing the wings. H. A. Bernstein, J. f. 0. 1864 pp. 408-410. The three 
species further differentiated, H. Schlegel, N. T. I). 1865, pp. 191, 192. 
Nucifraga caryocatactes is figured, J. Gould, B. G. B. part viii. ; its eggs 
exhibited, A. Newton, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 256. 
GymnorTiina tihicm, its very variable eggs- described. E. P. Ramsay, Ibis, 
1866, pp. 300, 301. 
COLUMBJ5. 
CoLUMBIDiE. 
Wallace, A. R. On the Pigeons of the Malay Archipelago. 
Ibis, 1865, pp. 365-400, plate ix. 
Under the heading ” Australian Region’^ we have attempted 
to give an abstract of the general principles^ contained in this 
paper. The introduction which contains them is followed by a 
catalogue, concisely synonymatic, geographical, and occasionally 
diagnostic, but in nearly every instance with the addition of a 
♦ Not published till after March 1865. 
