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Otis tarda. Rediscovery of the gular pouch in thef male of this bird, W. 
H. Cullen, Ibis, 1866, pp. 143-146, figs. Description of the structure, W, II. 
Flower, P. Z. S. 1865, pp. 747, 748. Six examples captured through freezing, 
A. Marchand, R. Z. 1865, p. 265. Its occurrence in England, with anatomi- 
cal description of the specimen, a female, W. W. Boulton, Zool. pp. 9442- 
9446. 
Otis hartlauhi is denied specific rank, II. Schlegel, Mus. P.-B., Cur-- 
sores, p. 9. 
Otis houhara. This species, and not O. macqueeni, was met with at Djulfa 
in Persia. F. de Filippi, Viagg. Pers. p. 351. 
Otis picturata is a new species from Benguela, belonging to the Eupodotis 
group. G. Hartlaub, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 88, pi. vi. j J. J. Monteiro, op. cit. p. 90. 
Gruida3. 
An account of the specimens belonging to this family which 
are contained in the Leyden Museum is given by II . Schlegel, 
Mus. P.-B., Rain, pp. 1-7. 
Balearica regulorum (Licht.) is not recognized as distinct from B.pavonina 
(L.). II. Schlegel, Mus. P.-B., Ralli, p. 7. 
Anthropoides virgo, its occurrence in Sweden. R. v. Willemoes-Suhm. 
Zoolog. Garten, 1865, pp. 151, 152. 
Ardeid^. 
Ardca leiicophaia, Gould, from Australia., is identified with A. cinerea, L., 
and A. rectirostris, Gould, from the same country, with A. sumatrana, Raffles. 
J. Gould, Handb. B. Austral, ii. pp. 296, 266. 
Ardea cine^'ea. Notice of a Heronry in Switzerland, V. Fatio, Bull. Soc. 
Orn. Suisse, 1865, pp. 73, 78. It is figured, with young, J. Gould, B. G. 
B. part viii. 
Herodias syrmatoplioriis, H. plnmiferus, H. immaculata, and II. pannosus, 
Gould, from Australia, are identified respectively with Ardea alba, L., Egretta 
egrettoides, Bp., Ardea melanopus, Wagl., and A. asha, Sykes. Herodias 
garzetta, L., has been killed near Brisbane. J. Gould, Handb. B. Austral, 
ii. pp. 301-305. 
Nycticorax gardeni is confounded vrith N. griseus. . *11. G. Vennor, Canad. 
Nat. 1865, pp. 53-56. 
Ardetta stagnatilis, Gould, from Australia, identified with Ardea javanica, 
Ilorsf. J. Gould, Handb. B. Austral, ii. p. 317. 
Ardeola minuta, with young, is represented. E. Bettoni, Ucc; Lombard, 
fasc. i. 
Botaurus pinnatus. A specimen from Greytown, Nicaragua, is with sorne 
doubt referred to this species, which does not appear to have been before re- 
.corded from the north of the Isthmus of Panama. G. N. Lawrence, Ann. 
Lyc. N. Y. 1865, p. 185. 
Botaurus australis, Gould, from Australia, is identified with Ardea pcecilo- 
ptera, Wagl. J. Gould, Handb. B, Austral, ii. p. 313. 
