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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Nycticorax leuconotus (Wagl.) is figured. J. Cabanis, Von der Decken’s 
Reisen, iii. 1. 1. xviii. 
Botaurus pinnatus and Tigrisoma fasciatum (ad. & imm.) are figured, and a 
diagnostic list of the three species of the last-named genus given. P. L. 
Sclater & 0. Salvin, Ex. Orn. pp. 181-184, pis. xci., xcii. 
Botaurus stellaris breeding in Norfolk (Zool. Ilec. v. p. 107). II. Stevenson, 
Zool.S. S. p. 1491. 
Botaurus lentiginosus, its occurrence in L eland. Ld. Clermont, Zool. S. S. 
p. 1517. 
Botaurus ?, a species new to New Zealand, is mentioned as occurring 
there, but no name is applied to it. W. Buller, Trans. & Proc. New Zeal. 
Inst. i. pp. 110, 112. 
Endicott, W. E. Bitterns. American Naturalist, iii. pp. 169-179. 
A popular account of the various species of Botaurus and its allies. 
Botaurus capensis only differs from B. stellaris in size. J. II. Gurney, Ibis, 
1869, p. 301. 
CiCONIIDiE. 
Ciconia ahdimii in confinement. P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 468. 
ANSERES. 
PlKENICOPTERIDiE. 
Gray, G. R. Notes on the Bills of the species of Flamingo 
[Phoenicopterus) . Ibis, 1869, pp. 438-443, pis. xiii.-xv. 
From a consideration of this feature, the author comes to the 
conclusion that there exist 8 good species, which he groups in 
four sections : — (a) Phcenicopterus proper, with P. antiquorum, 
P. erythrceus, P. glyphorhynchus (sp. nov.), and P. ignipalliatus) 
(b) Phoeniconaias, yf iih. P.rubidus andP. minor \ (c) Phoenicorodias 
(nom. nov.) ; and (d) Phcenicoparrus, formed by P. ruber and P. 
andinus respectively. The synonyms and localities of eskch of 
them are concisely given, and the bill figured. 
Phcenicopterus glyphorhynchus is said to be a new species from the Gala- 
pagos, having the bill somewhat slender, its culmen transversely grooved at 
the base, and the naked space beneath the basal arch of the mandible large, 
with the apex of the lateral arch angulated. No description is given j but the 
bill is figured. Id. tom. cit. pp. 439, 442, pi. xiv. fig. 5. 
Phoenicopterus ruhidus (Zool. Rec. v. p. 107) probably identical with P. 
minor, Vieill. T. 0. Jerdon, Ibis, 1869, pp. 2-30-232 ) A. Hume, tom. cit. 
pp. 355, 356. Distinct from P. minor : G. li. Gray, loc. cit. note, and its bill 
figured with that of P. minor, tom. cit. pp. 440, 442, pi. xiii. fig. 3, pi. xv. fig. 8. 
Phoenicopterus ejects from its mouth a bloody secretion, a habit which may 
possibly be the origin of the well-known legend of the Pelican feeding its 
young with its own blood. A. D. Bartlett, P, Z. S. 1869, p. 146. 
Anatid^. 
Eyton, T. C. a Synopsis on [i’ic] the Anatidce, or Duck tribe. 
Wellington, Salop : 1869. Small 8vo, pp. 144. 
