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Bernicla leucolcema; and the occurrence of the new Eider-duck 
(Somateria, v .— nigrum) on Great Slave Lake is noticed. 
In the 3rd number of vol. xxvii. of the f Journal of the Asiatic 
Society of Bengal* (1858) will be found theReport of the 
Curator of the Zoological Department " (Mr. Blyth) for May 
in that year, in which he notices several novelties. Twelve spe¬ 
cies of birds from the Andaman Islands had lately been added 
to the Museum: —Halcyon coromandelianus and H. smyrnensis, 
Corvus culminatus, Kittacincla albiventris, sp. nov. (mentioned in 
our last Number, as described in Mr. Blythes letters), Sturnia 
erythropygia } Tephrodornis grisola, Geocichla innotata, Copsychus 
saularis, Artamus leucorhynchus , Edolius, sp. ?, Pycnonotus jo- 
cosus , and Carpophaga sylvatica. From a collection of stuffed 
birds lately presented to the Society, Mr. Blyth describes a new 
Lory —Eos fuscata (several specimens of this beautiful bird have 
lately been transmitted from Havre-Dorey by Mr. Wallace); 
Trichoglossus ochrocephalus, sp. nov., and T. immarginatus , sp. 
nov. Mr. Blyth rather calls in question the distinctness of Lorius 
tricolor and Lorius cyanauchen (superbus , Fras.); they are, how¬ 
ever, in our opinion (formed on Mr. Wallace's specimens, of 
which we have made mention below), quite different, and inhabit 
different localities. A description is also given (p. 280) of the 
Diar dig alius fas ciolatus, of which we spoke antea , p. 115. Is 
this really different from D. prcdatus , Bp., C. B. xliii. p. 415 ? 
In a recent letter Mr. Blyth says, “ perhaps not." A drawing, 
apparently of this species, taken in Siam from the living bird by 
Finlayson some years ago, is in the India House, and was exhi¬ 
bited at a recent meeting of the Zoological Society by Mr. Gould. 
2. French Publications. 
The first part of a new work, entitled f Richesses Ornitholo- 
giques du Midi de la France/ published at Marseilles, by MM. 
Jaubert and Barthelemy-Lapommeraye, is in our hands. There 
is much information in this book about the rare birds which 
visit the singular district called the Crau d'Arles and its vicinity. 
Many of our readers will be surprised to learn that Vultur mo- 
nachus is considered a regular bird of passage here, and that the 
Otogyps has occurred in the same country, as testified by its 
