ORNITHOLOGY IN 1850. 
“Ei. coccineus, dorso alis caudaque purpureo-fusiscentibus ; margine alarum 
remigibusque apice cyaneis ; tectricibus inferioribus rubro cyaneoque variis ; 
abdomine erisso, et cande apice, rubris concoloribus ;” a figure is given, 
pl. x. Notice of « Hybrid Crowned-pigeon, hatched in the menagerie, 
by D. W. Mrrouetn, Sec. Z.S., &e., &., p. 170; figures of the 
young birds newly hatched are given. 

The Annals and Magazine of Natwral History, including Zoology, 
Botany, and Geology. Vols. v. and vi. Second Series, On the Occurrence 
of Charadrius virginiacus, Borkh. at Malta, by H. E. Srrickxanp, Esq., 
M.A., F.G.S., p.40. ‘The occurrence of this species in Malta is given 
on the authority of letters from Captain Drummond, 42d Regiment, 
in 1846. The specimens were afterwards seen by Mr. Yarrell, who 
considered them identical with C. virginiacus, which has almost a 
cosmopolite distribution, while C. plucialis is restricted. The for- 
mer is not mentioned in the latest accounts of the Ornithology of 
Malta, Sicily, or Greece. Natural History of Ireland, Birds, 
Vols. i. and ii., by Wini1am Tomson, Esq., Belfast, a review of, p. 218. 
— Descriptions of some New Species of Birds of the Family Caprimul- 
fide, by Joun Cassin, p. 30. An Extract from the Proceedings 
of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. iv. 
P. 236. The species described are Hydropsalis limbatus and segmen- 
talis; Anthrostomus seviceocoudatus, all from South America. In 
"oceedings of Zoological Society, of a date nearly twelve months 
Previous (February, 1849), printed in this volume, we have De- 
“ription of a New Species of Parrot, Psittaous (it is a@ Pionus) 
rippellii, p. 77, —* Uniform dark-bronze colour, with the lesser 
and under wing-coyerts bright yellow; the feathers on the thighs, 
orange-yellow; length, 9.6; bill from gape, io; wing, 5.6; tail, 
sh tarsi, 6. Habitat, river Nunez.” Description of a New 
Pectes of Nuteracker, Nucifraga multipunctata, by Joun Gourd, F.R.8.L., 
ca P- 134, It is from Simla in India, and is described from a 
Pitas in the Museum of Philosophical Society of York. 
itm of a Peculiarity of Structure observed in the Aorta of the Wild 
th ‘an, by Joun Davy, M.D., F.R.S.E. and L., p. 139. Under 
© title “ Ipswich Museum,” p. 147, is given in the substance of a 
Setar delivered by Professor Owen, at the anniversary meeting, 
On Gigantic Birds of New Zealand, and Geographical Distribution 
“i Animals, — On a new species of the genus Glareola, G. nuchalis, 
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