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to the present ‘ List of Parrots ’ are somewhat curt, this is a 
much better plan than that of publishing names without any 
description at all, as has been done on former occasions : and 
we may hope that this practice, which has nowhere been more 
loudly condemned than in the preface of one of the recent cata¬ 
logues* published by the Trustees, has been now finally aban¬ 
doned. 
The total number of Parrots enumerated in Mr. Gray’s list 
(which contains all described species, whether specimens are in 
the national collection or not), arranged in the different sub¬ 
families adopted by Mr. Gray, is as follows :— 
I. Pezoporinae.87 
II. Arinae . 82 
III. Loriinae ........ 69 
IV. Psittacinae ....... 108 
V. Cacatuinae.34 
380 
This gives us 151 species in the New World, and 229 in the 
Old World. It is certainly remarkable, that of the latter group 
only 25 f occur in Africa, though its geographical extent is so 
great, and we know of nothing that would seem to unfit it for the 
residence of Psittacidce. 
Mr. Bree’s work, on the f Birds of Europe not observed in the 
British Isles/ has reached its thirteenth number. We must again 
call Mr. Bree’s attention to the importance of consulting recent 
authorities. The “ Hooded Shrike 99 has, we believe, only occurred 
in Spain in the imagination of dealers, whose object is always to 
increase the list of “ European” birds. (See Dr. Hartlaub’s 
notes in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 292.) And Le Vaillant’s 
‘ Tchagra 9 is quite a different species from the L. cucullatus of 
Temminck, a scarce bird even in Northern Africa; so that 
Temminck and Degland were not so far wrong, after all, in their 
remark alluded to, p. 174. 
The second part of Mr. Eyton’s f Osteologia Avium 9 is now 
ready. It contains a continuation of the plates, and the letter- 
* Catalogue of Batrachia Salientia, by Dr. A. Gunther, 1858. 
t Namely, Palceornis, 3 sp., Psittacus, 2 sp., Pyocephalus, 10 sp., 
Agapornis, 6 sp., Coracopsis, 3 sp., and Mascarinus, 1 sp. 
