6 Aves. 
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\_Pycnonotidce, Sturnidce^ Ploceidos^ CapitonidcB.'] 
. Ueber Numida orientalis^ sp. n., von Zanzibar, und Lanius major, 
Pall., in sudwestlich Deutschland. Tom. cit. p. 209. ^ 
. Ueber die Arten des Genus Oreotetrax \Megaloperdix). Tom. cit. 
p. 217. 
Five species are here recognized, and their synonymy, habitats, and 
brief diagnoses given. 
. Ueber Nicator vireo, sp. n., von Loango. Tom. cit, p. 333. 
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Contains the Ornithological results of the Expedition of the “Ga- 
zelle,” the ship sent by the German Government to observe the Transit 
of Venus in 1874. The chief places visited were Kerguelen’s Island, the 
Coast of New Guinea, New Hanover, and New Ireland, several islands of 
the South Pacific, and the Straits of Magellan. The descriptions of 
the new species obtained (except 1 [^MegapodidceY)^ originally pub- 
lished in SB. Nat. Fr. 1876, are here reproduced. 
COCKBURN, J. Letter on Totanns fuscus, &c., in India. St. Feath. 
1876, p. 509. 
Collin, Jonas. Skandinaviens Fugle, med sasrligt Hensyn til Dan- 
mark og de Nordlige Bilande. Af R. Kjacrbolling, Anden, fuld- 
stsendigt omarbeidede Udgave ved Jonas Collin. Kjobenhavn : 
1875-77, 8vo, pp. 838. 
This is a revised edition of Kjaerb oiling’ s “Danmarks Fugle (1852), 
into which are introduced notices of the species of birds fonnd in the 
Scandinavian Peninsula, Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. 
Many of the errors of the first edition have been corrected. A very 
useful book. 
Cooper, J. G. Californian Garden Birds. Am. Nat. x. pp. 90-96. 
An interesting account of the birds frequenting a garden about 18 
miles south-east of San Francisco. 
Cope, E. D. On a gigantic Bird from the Eocene of New Mexico. P. 
Ac. Philad. 1876, p. 10. 
A tarso-metatarsus of a bird twice the size of an Ostrich described 
under the new generic and specific name of Diatryma gigantea{^-teum']. 
(See J. Zool. v. p. 264). 
CoRDEAUX, John. Letter on Heligoland Birds captured by Mr. Gatke 
in 1875. Ibis, 1876, p. 128. 
Codes, Elliott. On the Number of the Primaries in Oscines. Bull. 
Nutt. Orn. Club, i. pp. 60-63. 
An investigation chiefly of the apparently abnormal number in some 
Vireonidw and Alaudidm. 
