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ZOOLOGICAL LlTEllATURE. 
GRALL^. 
RALLIDiE. 
Milne-Edwards, Alphonse. Observations sur les affinites 
zoologiques de V Aphanapteryx espece eteiiite qui vivait 
encore h Pile Maurice an xviie siecle. Ann. Sc. Nat. 5e 
ser. X. pp. 325-346^ pis. 15-18. 
. Researches into the Zoological Affinities of ... . Apha- 
napteryx imperialis. Ibis, 1869, pp. 256-275, pi. vii. 
These are two distinct papers, though, being written about 
the same time and with the same materials, their similarity is at 
first sight obvious, and the plate is the same in both, after the 
facsimile in Ritter von Frauenfeld^s work (Zool. Rec. v. p. 103) j 
but the second contains woodcuts, from Strickland^s ^Dodo and 
its Kindred,^ of V an den Broecke^s and Herbert's figures of the 
bird. By means of the bones found in Mauritius by Mr. Ed- 
ward Newton, as before mentioned {loc. cit.)^ the author most 
satisfactorily makes out the affinities of this extinct form, which, 
he says, should bear the name of^. broeckii (Schlegel), and holds 
the place by the side of Ocydromus whicli that does to the more 
normal Rallidce, The whole investigation is, as migh t be expected, 
most ably conducted. In each paper the bones are figured. 
Erauenfeld, Georg Ritter von. Ueber den Artnamen von 
Aphanapteryx. Verhandl. k.-k. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 
1869, pp. 761-764. 
The author objects to the substitution (ut supra) of the name A. broeckii 
for A. imperialis. 
Ocydromus lafresnayanus (J. Verr. & Des Murs, R. Z. I860, p. 437) in con- 
finement. P. L, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 431. 
Ocydrotnus sylvestris is described and figured as a new species from Lord 
Howe’s Island, readily distinguishable from O. australis and O. earlii by its 
small size and rufous wings, which are narrowly banded with black. The 
second character also separates it from O. lafresnayanus. Id. tom. cit. pp. 472, 
473, pi. XXXV. Its habits described : G. Bennett, tom. cit. pp. 471, 472. 
Ocydromus australis is attracted by red cloth, in the manner spoken of by 
old wi’iters with regard to Aphanapteryx. J. II. Gurney, Ibis, I860, p, 463. 
Ocydromus nigricans is described as a new species from the south-west 
coast of the South Island of New Zealand. W. Buller, Trans. & Proc. New 
Zeal. Inst. i. p. HI. 
Gypsornis cuvieri (gen. et sp. nov.), Mallus intermedins, R. christii, R. exi- 
miiis, R. porzanoides, R. heaumonti, R. dispar, and R. major (spp. now.) 
(Zool. Rec. V. p. 104), their remains fully described. A. Milne-Edwards, 
Ois. Foss. Fr. ii. pp. 140-158. 
Rallus crex (?), its femur from a “ quaternary ” bed described, and the re- 
mains of Gallinula chloropiis and Fnlica atra from similar deposits figured. 
Id. tom. cit. pp. 158-160, pi. cvi. figs. 1-19. 
Rallus intactus is a new species from the Soloman Islands, nearly allied to 
R. plumbeicentris, G. R. Gray (P. Z. S. 1861, p. 432), but with a shorter bill. 
