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5 seem to be peculiar to that group ; 3 more, of which one (be- 
longing to Laniida) is described as new, are contained in the 
present collection, which comprises 11 species, on all of which 
notes are added. 
Gould, J. Description of a new species of Dacelo from North- 
Western Australia. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 602. [See 
Alcedinid( 2 .'] 
. Descriptions of five new species of Birds from Queens- 
land, Australia. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. iv. pp. 
108-111. [See McliphagidcBj Ampelidat (2), Sittid( 2 y and 
UallidcE,'] 
. The Birds of Australia. Supplement — Part v. London : 
1869. 
The last part of this work we noticed two years since (Zool. 
Bee. iv. pp. 65, 66). The species figured are 14 in number, and 
will be found mentioned in our special part. Some of them have 
only been described during the last year*. 
Hutton, F. W. Letter with Notes on two Birds in the Auck- 
land Museum and some others. Ibis, 1869, pp. 351-353. 
[vSee Megapodiidee, Pr ocellar iidee, and Casuariid(je.~\ 
'. Notes on the Birds of the Great Barrier Island. Trans. 
& Proc. New Zeal. Inst. i. pp. 160, 161. 
. Notes on the Birds of the Little Barrier Island. Tom. 
cit. p. 162. 
On the first of these spots the author passed two months, find- 
ing 52 species, and on the second four days, meeting with 23 
species. None are described as new, but one could not be pro- 
cured for identification. 
ScLATEH, P. L. On a Collection of Birds from the Solomon 
Islands. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, pp. 118-126, pis. ix., x. 
After reciting what has hitherto been recorded of the or- 
nithology of this group, the 21 species, of which 3 (belonging to 
CoraciidcRy Sturnidee, and RaUida) are new, contained in the 
collection are enumerated, and a list of 34 species known to be 
found in these islands is given, at least 17 being peculiar. The 
author subsequently proposes to divide the ‘‘Australian Region^^ 
into,J^^^^? subregions, viz. : — (1 ) the Papuan, the Austro-Malayan of 
Mr. Wallace [cf. Zool. Rec. i. pp. 53-55) ; (2) the true Australian, 
comprising continental Australia, the promontory of Cape York 
perhaps excepted ; (3) the New-Zealandian ; (4) the Polynesian ; 
and (5) the Sandwich Islands. The Solomon Islands form an 
eastern outlier of the Papuan subregion. 
* We may take this opportunity of saying that since we last noticed Mr. 
Diggles’s work (Zool. Rec. v. p. ol) we have seen nothing more of it. 
