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ZOOLOGICAJi LITERATURE, 
hellusy Tetrao urogalloideSy Falcipennis hartlaubi, Lagopus mutus . 
(in summer and winter)^ L. rupestris, and L. hyperboreus (sc. he- 
mileucurus), together with two plates beautifully representing 
the eggs of seventeen species. A few of the author'^s determina- 
tions are mentioned below. {Cf. Ibis, 1865, p. 345, and 1866, 
pp. 213, 214.) 
Lagopus saliceti (sc. albus), remarks on the habits of this bird, with refer- 
ence to its distinctness from L. scotieus. E. R. Alston^ Zool. pp. 9439, 
9440. 
Lagopus scotieus unsuccessfully tried to be introduced on Liinehurg- 
heathj called ^^Grau” in England 1 P. V. Heinzel, Verhandl. naturf. Ve- 
reines in Briinn, ii. p. 30. 
Lagopus persicus is only a light-coloiued variety of L. scotieus, D. G, 
Elliot, Monogr. Tefr. Introduction. 
Lagopus reinhardti and L. islandorum are both referred to L. rupestris, 
Idemy op. cit. no. 21. 
Lagopus hemileucuruSy Gould (X. hyperboreus, alic.), fully described j re- 
ferred to X. alpinus (sc. mutus^. A. J. Malmgren, OEfvers. Vet.-Akad. Eorh. 
1864. Probably identical with X. rupestris: A. Newton, Ibis^ 1865, p. 503 j 
p. G. Elliot, MonogT. Tetr. no. 22. 
Perdix cinerea, its northward advance in Scandinavia noticed. Now very 
plentiful at (Erebro. R. v. Willemoes-Suhm, Zoolog. Garten, 1865, p. 152. 
Its habits in Germany, K. Muller, op. cit. pp. 472, 473. 
Perdix saxatilis and P. petrosa, hybrids between these species. L. Olphr 
Galliard, Bull. Soc. Orn. Suisse, 1865, pp. 69-72. 
Colurnix communis with young is represented, E. Bettoni, Stor. Nat. Ucc. 
Lombard, fasc. i, 
Coturnix fornasinii is described and figured for a new species, ^^ut aiuntP 
Very like C. communis and C. textilis. C. delag or g%iei (Voy. dans Afiique 
austrMe, p. 615) approaches the supposed new bird. G. G. Bianconi, Mem, 
Accad. Sci. Bolog-na, 2 ser. iv. pp. 521, 522, tab. ii. fig. 2. 
Coturnix caineana is described as a new species from Swatow and Canton. 
R. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1865, pp. 351, 352. 
Francolinus granti is a new species from Central Africa. It resembles 
F. pileatus, but is much smaller, the red spots on the neck only form a broad 
collar, and the back is irregularly marked with cross bars. A list of the 
known species of African Francolini is added. G. Hartlaub, P. Z. S. 1865, 
pp. 665, 666, pi. xxxix. fig. 1. 
Francolinus icteropus, Heuglin, $ , is figured from that naturalist’s draAving 
of the only specimen ever obtained. Idem, op. cit. pp. 666, 667, pi. xxxix. 
fig. 2. 
Bussiere de Nercy, — . Note sur le Colin de Californie et son 
acclimatation en France. Bull. Soc. Imper. d’Acclimat. 
1865, pp. 637, 638. 
After three years’ almost entire failure, the result of 1865 was that 122 
individuals arrived at maturity. 
