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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Megapodius nicobariensis is figured. A. y. Pelzeln, Reise Novara, Vogel, 
tab. iv., and its eggs, tab. vi. fig. 12. 
Talegalla lathami is figured. J. Wolf, Zool. Sketches, 2nd ser^s. 
Tinamidae. 
Crypturus rufescens. Some particulars of its habits are given. — de Ver- 
houillet, Bull. Soc. Imp^r. d’Acclimat. 1866, pp. 600, 601. 
GRALL^. 
RALLIDiE. 
ScHLEGEL, H. Museum d^Histoire Naturelle des Pays-Bas. 
yme Livraison. Ralli. Leyde: 1865. Royal 8vo, pp. 76. 
This portion of the Catalogue of the Leyden Museum is 
practically complete, though still wanting about half the Re- 
sume.^^ In it the author includes the genera Gi'us (!) with 
twelve species, Aramus one species, Rallus eleven, Aramides 
five, Rallina ten, HypotcBnidia four. Or ex six, Himantornis one, 
Porzana fourteen, Gallinula fourteen, Porphyrio eight, Fulica 
five, Parra eight, Palamedea three, Ocydromus two, and Fury- 
pyga two species. Like the rest of Prof. SchlegeBs Catalogues, 
this will be found in future an absolute necessity to all ornitho- 
logists who are engaged with the group to which it refers, and 
on that account there is less need to enter into details respecting 
it ; but some few particulars of identification, which seem to be 
the most important or most novel, are given below. The groups 
above mentioned are represented in the Leyden Museum by 
about 630 mounted skins and upwards of forty osteological 
specimens 1 Professor Schlegel preserves his excellent method 
of giving characteristic descriptions of each species and (to use 
his term) conspecies.^^ 
Rallina rosenhei'gi is a new species from the north of Celebes, resembling 
R. plumheiventris in size, but having a larger bill, greenish-grey feet, difter- 
ently coloured plumage, and the eyes surrounded by a large bare space. 
H. Schlegel, N. T. D. 1866, pp. 212, 213. 
Rallina minahasaj Wallace, is referred to R. tricolor. H. Schlegel, Mus. 
P.-B., Ralli, p. 18. 
Porzana Carolina has occurred in England. A. Newton, P, Z. S. 1866, 
p. 196 j H. S. Eyre, Zool. p. 9640. 
Porzana moliiccana and P. rujigenis are two new species, — the first from 
Amboyna and Ternate, the second, which is near P. fasciata and P. rubigi- 
nosa, from Borneo. A. R. Wallace, op. cit. pp. 480, 481. 
Porzana leucophrys, Gould, is referred to Rallus quadristrigaUis, Horsf. 
J. Gould, Handb. B. Austral, ii. p. 343. Both are identified with Porphyrio 
cinereus, Vieill. II. Schlegel, Mus. P.-B., Ralli, p. 32. 
Porzana pusilla, an account of its breeding near Cottbus in Posen. 
— Kutter, J. f. 0. 1866, pp. 334-341. 
