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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
viatilisj Gould (nec Naum.), from Australia, refeiTed to S. hybrida^ Pallas. H, 
Schlegel, Mus. P.-B., Sterncey pp. 32, 33. 
Sterrmla mimita figured, J. Gould, B. G. B. pt. viii.j its great abundance, with 
Hydrochelidon nigra and H. hueoptei aj near Pisa, H. Giglioli, Ibis, 1865, 
p. 63. 
Hydrochelidon leucoparia has again occurred in England. J. Gatcombe, 
Zool. p. 9629. 
PROCELLARIIDiE. 
Diomedea exulans, D. melanophrys, D. fuliginosa, Procellana giganteay P. 
aqumoctialisy P. hcesitata, Licht. (9iec Kuhl), P, mact optei'Uy P. glacialoides, 
P. mollisy Daption capensisy and Prion vittatus form the subjects of some 
valuable remai*ka. F. W. Hutton, Ibis, 1865, pp. 278-288. 
Pelecanid.®. 
Oractdics hairdi, Gruber, MSS.,” is described as a new species from the 
Farallone Islands, closely related to G. violaceusy which it replaces on the 
coast of California, but has a slenderer bill and conspicuous white patches 
on the flanks. It may be the Phalacrocorax leucurus or P. Imconoim of 
Audubon, and it is supposed to have been also described as Graculus hairdi. 
J. G. Cooper, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1865, pp. 5, 6. A further note on this 
bird is added by J. Hepburn, loc, ciL 
Sida sinicadvena is a supposed new species from China, hitherto confounded 
with S. fused (P. Z. S. 1863, p. 258), but it has the wliole of the under-neck 
and breast the same colour as above. B. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1865, p. 109. 
Pelecanus philippensisy GmeL, a specimen fr-om Formosa described. R. 
Swinhoe, Ibis, 1865, pp. Ill, 112. 
The osteology of Pelecanus erythr&i hynchuSy P. crispus, and P. onocrotalus is 
described. C. Giebel, Zeitshr. gesammt. Naturwiss. 1865, pp. 250-257. 
The existence of communications between the lungs and the subcutaneous 
air-cells in birds of this family is confirmed. A. Milne-Edwards, Ann. des 
Sc. Nat. 5th ser. iii. pp. 137-142. 
Spheniscid^. 
Aptenodytes pemianti brought alive to England, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 318 j the 
same bird (though by mistake named A. forstei'i) was found on dissection to 
have a well-developed urinary bladder, R. Owen, cp. cit. p. 439. Figured, 
^ Intellectual Observer.’ 
Eudyptes chrysocomey with yoimg, figured. A. v. Pekeln, Reise Novara, 
Vogel, tab. v. 
COLYMBID^. 
Colymhus glacialis, supposed to breed in Shetland. II. Saxby, Zool. 
pp. 9524, 9525. 
Eudytes (sc. Colymhus) arcticuSy observations on the moult of this species. 
The author takes a view opposed to that of Naumann and Dr. Paulsen. 
— Bock, J. f. O. 1865, pp. 367, 368. 
Both the above and also Colymhus septentrionalis are figui*ed. J. Gould, 
B. G. B. part vii. 
