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menced by one jungle-cock, is answered by every other within hear- 
ing ; then, with hostile intent and alternate sounds of defiance, they 
gradually advance to their morning combat ; they are even more 
pugnacious than their domestic brethren ; and I have seen jungle- 
cocks, when replied to (apparently in a very different dialect) from 
the fowl-yard, advance within its precincts, and give battle to its 
champions. In taste their flesh resembles that of the pheasant : in 
appearance, the males are like the common red dunghill-cock, only 
with more glossy plumage, and a yellow spot in the centre of the 
red upright comb ; the female is much smaller, and in colour resem- 
bles the heath-hen of the moors.” 
I know the species referred to by Major Forbes, and suspect it is 
that named G. Lafayettei ; being distinct from that of which the hen 
is figured in Hardwicke’s ‘ Illustrations ’ by the name G. Stanleyi, 
and which inhabits more elevated ground. The habits portrayed 
are very decidedly those of a polygamous species ; and (equally with 
those before cited of G . ferrugineus) vividly recal to mind those of 
the British pheasant. And G. Sonneratii will answer and defiantly 
crow against a common fowl, however widely different its voice, the 
same as the Ceylon species ; at least I speak of G. Sonneratii when 
tamed, but not domesticated, and which if he breaks loose is most 
readily recaptured by putting out a common domestic cock to entice 
him to combat. 
P. 393. Is not Turdus rvfulus, Drapiez, \e\modestus, Eyton, iden- 
tical with T. javanicus, Horsfield, vel concolor, Temminck } 
As regards the Lanins pheenicurus and L. super ciliosusy I may re- 
peat my observation that the colouring characteristic of the latter is 
peculiar to the Malayan bird, common as L. phoenicurus is through- 
out India ; but that what I now consider to be females or young m^es 
of the former are undistinguishable from the Indian L. phoenicurus. 
L. tigrinus is distinct altogether : and I may remark that I have 
lately described a beautiful new shrike from the Tenasserim pro- 
vinces, which is very nearly allied to L. Hardwickii. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
Recherches sur les Animaux Fossiles, par L. de Koninck. Liege, 1847. 
{Premiere Par tie, Monographie des Genres Productus et Chonetes.) 
This is the first of a series of works entitled ‘ Researches on Fossil 
Animals,’ containing monographs of the genera Productus and Cho- 
netes. These works are intended to supply the geologist and natu- 
ralist with complete monographs of different genera, so as to embody 
in one volume all the species of a genus which are now more or less 
distributed through many periodicals, memoirs and transactions of 
Societies. The first part contains a list of 107 works and memoirs 
to which the author has referred in the subsequent pages. To this 
