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allied to the Alpine Accentor. With regard to Mei'ula unicolor , 
we do not quite agree with Mr. Gould in considering it so rare 
and so restricted to the western parts of Upper India as he ap¬ 
pears to think. Specimens are in the British Museum, collected 
by Mr. Hodgson in Nepal, and it has been named by that gen¬ 
tleman Petrocincla homochroa, and indifferently figured in his 
unpublished series of plates. We believe it is also the Turdus 
unicolor of Capt. Tickell (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. ii. 577) and 
Turdus modestus of Blyth (ibid. xvi. 144). Capt. Boys’ speci¬ 
mens, one of which Mr. Gould refers to, were collected in the 
province of Kumaon, and the bird bears the number 495 in his 
series. There are likewise examples in Sir William Jardine’s 
collection, and in that of the late Mr. Strickland. 
We gladly welcome the appearance of the first part of Mr. 
Eyton’s ‘ Osteologia Avium’ *, a work on a very important and 
hitherto much neglected branch of ornithological science, with¬ 
out the aid of which it is hopeless to expect to arri ve at anatural 
arrangement of the class. The plates are drawn on zinc by 
Erxleben, under Mr. Eyton’s personal superintendence. 
Mr. Bree’s work on European birds which have not been ob¬ 
served in the British Isles, forming a sequel to Mr. Morris’s 
History of British Birds, has reached its 7th Number. We have 
received from a correspondent, well acquainted with European 
ornithology, an extended notice of this book, given above, to 
which we beg to refer our readers for further information. 
The first three parts of the ‘ Illustrated Proceedings of the 
Zoological Society,’ containing the papers read up to July 13th, 
and accompanying plates, have appeared. The articles relating 
to Ornithology are very numerous, and it is hardly necessary to 
extract even their titles, as the work must be in the hands of 
every one who pays attention to Natural History. The writers 
on Birds are Messrs. Gould, George Gray, Meves, and Sclater, 
andDrs. J. E. Gray, Hartlaub, and Krefft. Mr. Gould describes 
(p. 355) two new species of Hirundinidce (Atticora pileata from 
Guatemala, and Chelidon cashmeriensis from Cashmir), and a new 
Ptarmigan (Lagopus hemileucurus) from Spitzbergen (p. 354). 
Mr. George Gray gives a list of the birds obtained by Mr. Wallace 
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