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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Dajila acuta, Ilistrionicus torquatus, and Clangula glaucion are figured. J. 
Gould, B. Gr. Br. pt. xv. 
Tadorna vulpanser (ad. & pull.), Casarca ridila, and Faligula marila are 
figured. Id. op. cit. pt. xvi. 
Querquedida puna is figured. P. L. Sclater & O. Salvin, Ex. Orn. p. 197, 
pi. xcix. 
Somatena: — ^The common American form seems to differ fi.'om the European 
S. mollissima (L.) more than do some other so-called American species of 
AnatidcB. A. Newton & H. Reeks, Zool. S. S. p. 1758, note. 
Sornateria v-nigrum is figured. D. G. Elliot, B. N. Am. pts. xiv., xv. 
Anas rujina, its habits in semi-confinement. E. Baldamiis, Zeitschr. 
gesammt. Naturwissensch. xxxiv. (1869) p. 154. Bred in confinement at 
Dresden. A. Schopft', Zool. Garten, 1869, p. 120. 
Pelionelta trowhridgii, its head figured. D. G. Elliot, B. N. Am. Iiitr. 
Merganetta turneri is a new species from the Peruvian Andes, differing 
from M. Columbiana in its larger size and black breast and flanks, and from 
M. armata in the white edges of its scapulars and black throat and fore neck. 
M. leucogneys (Tsch.) is probably identical with M. columbiana. P. L. 
Sclater & O. Salvin, P. Z. S. 1869, pp. 600, 601. Figured, and a diagnostic 
list of the three species of the genus given. lid. Ex. Orn. pp. 199, 200, 
pi. c. 
Laridaj. 
Stercorarius catarrhactes is figured. D. G. Elliot, B. N. Am. pts. xiv., xv. 
Bruchigavia melanorhyncha is described as a new species from the South 
Island of New Zealand, diftering from B. scopulina by its black bill, dark 
feet, and the marking of its primaries. W. Buller, Ibis, 1869, p. 43. Pos- 
sibly identical with L. andersoni, Bruch (J. f. 0. 1853, p. 102) j but if not, 
then a good species. 0. Finsch, to77i. cit. p. 381. 
La7'U8 glaucus and L. glauccscc7is, the tips of their primaries figured. D. 
G. Elliot, B. N. Am. Intr. p. 12. 
Bissa tiddactglus and IIyd7'ocolams mmiitus are figured. J. Gould, B. Gt. 
Br. pt. xvi. 
Larus 77imutus, notes on its eggs and nidification in Russia, the latter from 
the information of Herr W. Meves. H. E. Dresser, P. Z. S. 1869, pp. 530, 
631. Its frequent occurrence on the English coast in 1868-69. Zool. S. S. 
pp. 1495, 1518, 1563, 1603, 1803, 1908, 1921. [It has occurred in still 
greater abundance during the past winter, 1869-70.] 
La7'us atricilla, said to be a regular winter visitant at Palermo [!]. H. 
Saunders, Ibis, 1869, p. 396. [L. 77icla7iocephulus juv., T. Salvadori, Ibis, 
1870, p. 153.] 
Ster7ia, IIalipla7ia, and Anous, their oological characters. Baron von 
Kcinig-Warthausen, Ber. XVII. Versamml. D. 0. G. pp. 36-39. 
Halipkma discolo7' is figured. D. G. Elliot, B. N. Am. pt. xiii. 
Ster7ia fuliginosa, its second recorded occurrence in England. J. E. Hurt- 
ing, Zool. S. S. pp. 1867, 1868. 
Sterna aleutica is described and figured as a new species from Kadiak, dif- 
fering so much from other species as scarcely to require a comparison, the 
pure white tail [taken in combination with the general slaty-blue of the 
