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tides, is described as new. {Cf. [Ibis, 1808, pp. 101, 102, 135-164^ 
242-248, 253-271 ; Ann. & Mag. N. H.'4th ser. i. pp. 383-385.) 
Layard, Edgar Leopold. Letter on the ornithology of St. 
Helena. Ibis, 1867, pp. 248-252. 
The Wire-bird is ^gialites pecum'ius (Temm.). 
. Letter on the ornithology of the Crozette Islands. Ibis, 
1867, pp. 457-460. 
Newton, Edward. Descriptions of some New Birds from the 
Seychelles Islands. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, pp. 344-347, 
pi. xxii. Erratum, tom. cit» p. 821. 
Prior to the author^s visit to these islands only five species of 
land-birds were known to occur there. These were all peculiar 
to the group. He now describes seven new species, belonging to 
Psittacidee (2), Meliphagidce (2), Muscicapidee, Thirdidce, and 
Ploceidce. 
. On the Land-Birds of the Seychelles Archipelago. Ibis, 
1867, pp. 335-360, pi. iv. 
After a short description of the different islands of the group, 
where the author stayed a month, the different species previously 
known to live there are recited, and then follows an account of 
his proceedings there, the characters of the new birds being added 
from the paper just mentioned. All the 14 indigenous land-hirds, 
except two (which have not been positively identified) , are pecu- 
liar. A list of the birds observed in the archipelago, and a table 
of the distribution of the peculiar species in the several islands, 
with some remarks showing the Malagash tendency of the Sey- 
chelles ornis, conclude this interesting paper. 
ScHLEGEL, IL, et Pollen, F. P. L. llecherches sur la Faune de 
Madagascar et de ses Dependances, d^apres les decouvertes 
de MM. F. P. L. Pollen et D. C. van Dam. Mammiferes 
et Oiseaux. Livraisons i., ii. Leyde : 1867. Boy. 8vo, 
pis. 
This very beautiful work loses scarcely any interest by the fact 
that the most important discoveries of the travellers above named 
have already been made public (Zool. Bee. ii. pp. 71, 72, iii. p. 54) . 
Some previous determinations of species are now retracted ; but 
further improvements in this respect seem desirable. There is 
also some inconvenience caused by the authors each recounting 
his observations in the first person, leaving it to be gathered 
from the context which of them is actually giving his opinion. 
(C/. Ibis, 1868, pp. 224-226.) 
Taylor, E. Cavendish. Egypt Bevisited. Ibis, 1867, pp. 48-73. 
The results of the author^s former visit (in 1853) were pub- 
lished in the first volume of the same journal (Ibis, 1859, pp. 
41-55) . The present is a list of the birds obtained or fully iden- 
tified by him during both visits ; but the remarks, unless the 
