AVES. 
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GALLINiE. 
Cracidas. 
Aquarone, Paul. Note sur Feducation des Hoccos. Bull. Soc. 
Imper. d’Acclimat. 1865, pp. 449-462. (Abstract Zool. 
Garten, 1865, pp. 428-430.) 
The species treated of appears to he Crax glohicera. The success attained 
does not seem to have been very striking. 
PhASIANIDA5. 
PoMME, — . Sur les Paces Gallines. Bull. Soc. Imper. d^Ac-. 
climat. 1865, pp. 9195. 
A comparison of the respective merits of the poule d’Asie ” with those 
of the poule commune de France,” which the author says is much in favour 
of the latter. 
Rufz de Lavison, — . Note sur les Faisans acquis et h, ac- 
querir. Bull. Soc. Imper. d^Acclimat. 1865, pp. 280-306. 
This paper consists of remarks on the three epochs at which the reclaimed or 
naturalized species of Vliasianidm have been introduced into Europe, followed 
by an enumeration of all the species of the family, from Mr. Sclater’s paper, 
P. Z. S. 1863, pp. 113-127. 
Cros^soptilum auritum, ^ and ^ , and Pucrasia xanthospilny cf and 5 (with 
which last the P. davidiana of tlio Museum of the .Tardin dos Plantes is iden- 
tical), are figured. H. Milne-Ed wards, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Bull. i. pi. i. p. 14. 
- Ceriornis cahotiy a, supposed example procured at Hong Kong. E, S win- 
hoe, Ibis, 1865, p. 360. 
Ceriornis satyra is figured. J. Wolf, Zool. Sketches, 2nd series. 
Catreus wallicJii is figured. J. Gould, B. As. part xvii. 
‘ Phasianus soemmei'ingi, accidental abnormality in one of its rectrices. J. 
Murie, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 746. 
The crosses of which the different species of Euplocomus are capable are 
remarked on. A, Touchard, Bull. Soc. d’Acclim. 1865, pp. 307-310. 
Argus grayi is a supposed new species, the type of which is in the British 
Museum, and making, with the somewhat doubtful A. ocellaUis, the third of 
the genus known. B. G. Elliot, Ibis, 1865, pp. 423-425. 
Gallopliasis vieilloti is figured. J. Wolf, Zool. Sketches, 2nd series. 
TeTRAONIDuE. 
Elliot, D. G. A Monograph of the Tetraoninm or Family of 
the Grouse. Parts iii., and iv. and v. New York : 1865. 
Imp. folio. 
This work is now concluded. In part iii. are represented 
Cupidonia cupido, Tetrao urogallus, Dendragapus richardsoni, 
Lagopus persicuSy and L. albus (in summer and winter) . Parts 
iv. and v. (published together) contain figures of Bonasa um-^ 
