AVES. 
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Tlie first contains critical remarks on Anthus ricardi and A, 
sordidusy Corvus intermedins, and Falco peregrinntor. The 
second, besides treating of some other matters, describes 6 species, 
belonging to Vulturidce, Falconidce (3), Sylviida and Ploceidm, 
as new. 
. My Scrap Book. [See Accipitres.”] 
S WIN HOE, Robert. Descriptions of two new Species of Sun- 
birds from the Island of Hainan, South China. [See Nec- 
tariniid( 2 .^ 
. Letter identifying some of the Chinese Birds mentioned 
by Mr. Collingwood. Ibis, 1869, pp. 347, 348. 
We noticed Mr. Collingwood’s work last year (Zool. Rec. v. 
p. 33). Mr. Swinhoe’s remarks upon the Chinese Birds men- 
tioned in it are much to the point. 
Walden, Arthur [Hay], Viscount. Remarks on Dr. Stoliczka^s 
Ornithological Observations in the Sutlej Valley. Ibis, 
1869, pp. 208-215. 
The paper criticised was noticed by us last year (Zool. Rec. v. 
p. 49), and the critic speaks highly of it, adding some good re- 
marks on the nomenclature of certain species, the synonymy of 
which seems to be in much confusion. 
Wallace, Alfred Russel. The Malay Archipelago : the 
Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A 
Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature. 
London : 18()9. 2 vols. small 8vo, p[). 478 atid 524. 
The interest with which this work was long expected will not 
have been disappointed at its appearance; but the great popu- 
larity it has achieved renders it unnecessary for us to give more 
than an outline of its contents. Mr. Wallace has very much 
consulted the convenience of his readers by departing from the 
usual plan of travellers in their narratives, and instead of a 
chronological he has adopted a geographical system, giving a 
connected account of each island or group of islands forming the 
Archipelago, one after the other. Thus after a chapter devoted 
to the physical geography of the whole chain, the Indo-Malay 
Islands are treated ; then come in order the Timor Group, 
Celebes and its satellites, the Moluccas and the Papuan Group. 
In each case a chapter is especially occupied by a general treatise 
on the natural history of the division, while that on the Epima- 
chida and Paradiseidoi (ii. pp. 387-426) here demands particular 
mention. The illustrations, except two excellent maps, consist 
of numerous woodcuts, well chosen for their subjects. The 
theory of Natural Selection, of which the author was the joint- 
discoverer with Mr. Darwin, receives of course great attention 
throughout ; but it is at the same time set forth with so much 
judgment that its keenest opponents will have but little reason 
to complain. " Prom the nature of the case, much of these two 
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