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ZOOLOaiCAIi LITERATURE. 
Together with the other birds' bones found in the Mare aux 
Songes at Mauritius (Zool. Eec. iii. pp. 75, 76, 104), were the 
pelvis, tibia, and tarso -metatarsus of a Fulica, obtained by Mr. 
ISdward Newton, which the author, after careful examination, 
shows must have belonged to an extinct species of large size, 
and applies to it the name of F, newtoni. He also quotes pas- 
sages from accounts of ancient voyages which may have refe- 
rence to it, The specimens are beautifully and amply figured, 
representations of the corresponding parts of several other forms 
of IlallidcB being given for the sake of comparison. 
Sclater, P. L. Note on the. species of the genus Tribonyx, 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, 3rd ser. xx. pp. 122, 123. 
Three species are distinguished: — (1) T. Dubus, 
from Western Australia, of large size, the wings striated witli 
white, and with a large white hypochoiidrial patch; (2) T.gouldi, 
Sclater {T. mortierij Gould, nec Dubus), from Tasmania, of 
middle size, with unstriped wings, but a large white hypochon- 
drial patch, and (3) T, ventralis^ from Australia generally (?), 
the smallest with unstriped wings, and black flanks spotted with 
white, The true T, mortieri is figured, P. Z, S, 1867^ pp. 816, 
817. 
Mallus hypoleticus is a new species from Tongatabu, founded on the Phi- 
lippine Rail, var. /3,” Latham (Synops. iii. p. 232), in Banhs’s collection, 
and apparently not seen since. O. Finsch & G. Hartlaub, Beitr. Faun. 
Centralpolyn. pp. 163, 164. 
Mallina pceciloptera (Zool. Bee. iii. p. 108) is figm’ed, O. Finsch & G, 
Hartlaub, Beitr. Faun. Centralpolyn. Taf. xii. fig. 1. 
Notornis mantelli, Notes on. D. Mackay, Ibis, 1867, pp. 144, 145. 
Porphyrio indicus and P. vitiensis are figured. 0. Finsch & G. Hartlaub, 
Beitr. Faun. Centralpolyn. Taf. xii. figg. 2, 3. > 
Porphyrio, sp. ?, has occurred in Hampshire {qu. Zool. Bee. iii. p. 109 P). 
F. A, Hawker, Zoologist, S. S. p. 829. 
Aramides albiventris is described as a new species from British Honduras, 
differing from A. cayennensis in the paler breast and a white mark on the 
abdomen. G. N. Lawrence, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1867, p. 234. 
Aramides zelehori (Zool. Rec. ii. p. 129) is possibly identical with Pallus 
rythirhynckus, Vieill.”, to which also P. ccesius, Tsch. {iiec Spix), P. san- 
guinolentus, Swains., and P. hicolor, are referred ; but it must be carefully 
distinguished from P. nigricans, Vieill. (Gallimda ccesia, Spix), with which 
it has been confounded. P. L. Sclater & O. Salvin, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 991. 
{Cf, etiam tom. cit. p. 333.) 
ScOLOPACIDAi. 
Hoffmann, Julius. Die Waldsclmepfc. Ein monographischer 
Bcitrag zur Jagdzoologic. Stuttgart : 1867. 8vo, pj). 151. 
A very carefully Avritteii monograph of Scolopux rusticola, 
with sojne remarks on S. minor. The curious property of the 
former beiiig able to inflect the maxilla {cf. Zool. Bee. ii. p. 130) 
