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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Mascarene Islands. J. Reinhardt, Overs. K. danske Vidensk. Selsk. Forhandl. 
6 Noy. 1868, p. 168, [No particulars published.] 
GALLINiE. 
Cracid^. 
Ortalida frantzii is described as a new species from Costa Rica, brownishr 
olivaceous above, paler on the breast, the head and upper part of the neck 
olive slate-colour, the whole abdomen olivaceous-grey, the lower part of the 
belly whitish, the primaries entirely and the secondaries internally rufous. It 
may, however, be identical with O. einei'eicepSf Gray (Zool. Rec. iv. pp. 114, 
116). J. Cabanis, J. f. O. 1869, pp. 211, 212. 
Crax alberti and G alius domesticus, hybrids between. P. Aquarone, Bull. 
Soc. Imp. d’Acclimat. 1869, pp. 857-360. 
Phasianida?. 
Oallus, sp. ?, its fossil remains figured. A. Milne-Edwards, Ois. Foss. Fr. 
pi. cxxxiv. figs. 19-21. 
Thaumalea amherstice very common in Western Yunan. J. Anderson, 
P. Z. S. 1869, pp. Ill, 278. In confinement, J. J. Stone & P. L. Sclater, 
tom. cit. p. 468. 
• Thaumalea picta and Euplocamus nycthemei'us, a supposed hybrid between 
these species exhibited. G. F. Westermann, tom. cit. p. 149. 
Phasianus colchicus naturalized in England prior to a.d. 1059. W. Boyd 
Dawkins, Ibis, 1869, p. 358. Figured, C. J. Sundevall, Sv. Fogl. pi. Ixxiv. 
%• 2 . 
Phasianus colchicus, P. reevesi, Ceriornis temmincki, and Puci'asia xantho- 
spila (Zool. Rec. i. p. 88) are figured. J. Gould, B. As. pt. xxi. 
Meleagris gallopavo, senses of sight and smell in. J. D. Caton, Am. Nat. 
iii. pp. 28, 30. 
Gallopavo domesticus, Pavo cristatus, and Nimida meleagris are figured. C. 
J. Sundevall, Sv. Fogl. pi. Ixxiv. 
Numida eduardi, J. Verr.,” was described as a new species from Natal. 
G. Hartlaub, J. f. 0. 1867, pp. 36, 37. [With this N. verreauxi, Elliot (Ibis, 
1870, p. 300), is identified. Id. Ibis, 1870, p. 443.] 
Numida coronata, its breeding in France. J. Oornelly van Heemstra, 
Bull. Soc. Imp. d’Acclimat. 1869, pp. 404-407. 
Tetraonid.e, 
Ptemistes infuscatus is described and figured as a new species from Lake 
Jipe, in the interior of East Africa, darker than P. rubricollis, Riipp., and 
differing therefrom in the coloration of the upper, and especially of the lower 
tail-coverts, which are blackish-brown, broadly bordered with white towards 
the extremity. J. Cabanis, J. f. O. 1868 [published in 1869], p. 413; Id. Von 
der Decken’s Reisen, iii. 1. p. 44, pi. xiv. 
Francolinus schlegeli is figured. M. T. v. Heugliu, Orn. Nordost-Afr. 
t. XXX, 
Ortyx virginianus, notes on. A. Fowler, Am. Nat. iii. pp. 535-539. 
Lophoi'tyx califomianus, its breeding in France. A. Geoffrey St.-Hilaire, 
Bull. Soc. Imp. d’Acclimat. 1869, pp. 609-614. 
