AYES. 
IIT' 
Rhynchotis macnUcolHs, R. ornatus, and R. imxtlandi ar6 hew species from 
Bolivia j the first is of the size of R. rufescens. Idcm^ ut suprh) pp. 102, 103. 
Rhynchotis rufescexis, remarks on its breeding in captivity. A. D, Bart- 
lett, P. Z. S. 18G7, p. 687. 
Nothtira marmorata, N. danvini, and N. assimilis are new species! the 
first, from Bolivia, is of the size of N. major ; the second, which is N. minor^ 
Gould {nec Spix), is from Bahia Blanca, and of the size of N. media ; the 
third is like N, horaquira, Spix, but pale chestnut on the back with fewer 
black markings. G. R. Gray, List B. Br. 'Kmb, GalHiuBj pp. 104, 105. 
Opisthocomida:, 
Ojyisthocomus a-istahis, its egg figured. A. Newton, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 164, 
pi. XV. fig. 7. Its habits described : A. R. AVallace, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 685. 
GllALLiE, 
RaLLIDA2. 
Three species of this family, all referred to the genus Heli- 
orniSy Bonn, {nec Boie), are represented in the Leyden Museum 
by ten speeimens, and placed in the same group as various very 
distantly related forms. II . Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Ui'inatores, 
pp. 48-50. [See Spheniscidce.^ 
GalUnida aterrima, P. VViirt.” (Naumannia, 1857, p. 434), with Ortygo^ 
metra erythropus, Ileugl. (Sitz. k.-k. Akad. Wien, 1856, p. 316), are referred 
to G.Jlavirostris, Swains. T. v. Ileugl in, J. f. 0. 1867, p. 303. 
GalUmda jmmila, Sclat. (Ibis, 1859, p. 249, pi. vii.), and G. minor, Hartl. 
(J. f. 0. 1860, p. 341), are referred to G. angulata, Sundev. (CEf. k. V.-Ak. 
Porh. 1850, p. 110). O. Finsch & P. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1867, p. 254. 
Corethrura elegans has occurred in Natal. C. pidchra, with which it has been 
identified by Prof. Schlegel (Mus, P.-B. RalU, pp, 26, 27), differs from it in 
the white tear-spots of the upperside. 0. Finsch, J. f. O. 1867, p. 249. 
Rorzana crythropa is figured and described as a new species from Lima, 
about the same size as P. Carolina, but shorter and stouter. The wings are 
short and concave, and the feet are remarkably shorter and stouter than' in 
any other Crake known to the author. [This last peculiarity is not apparent 
in the figure ; but in the unique specimen the feet are not in a very good 
state.] It may possibly require a separate genus. P. L. Sclater, P, Z. S. 
1867, pp. 343, 344, pi. xxi. 
Rorzana fasciata is an iindescribed species from Eastern Peru, allied to 
P. castanca, but having a barred belly. P. L. Sclater & 0. Snlviii, tom. cit. 
p 981. 
Rorzana ruhra is figured. lid. Ex. Orn. pi. 16. 
Cre:t prateynsis, supposed to hybernate. H. Blake-Knox, Zool. S. S. pp. 
679, 680. 
Milne-Edwards, Alphonse. Memoire sur une espece eteinte du 
genre Fulica qui habitait autrefois Pile Maurice. Ann. Sc. 
Nat. 5® ser. Zool. viii. pp. 194-220, pis. 10-13. 
