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this will be done, not with the object of detracting in any way 
from the merits of his labours, which deserve our highest com¬ 
mendation, but solely with the view, which should be ever first 
present to the true follower of science, of eliciting the truth, and 
of enabling Dr. Jerdon, in a future edition, to correct and supply 
any errors or omissions that may be detected in the present. In 
the meantime we most cordially recommend Dr. Jerdon’s book 
to the notice of his brother ornithologists, and more especially 
to all residents in India who may be inclined to devote a por¬ 
tion of their leisure to the study of one of the most attractive 
branches of natural history. 
The 3rd Number of the ( Journal of the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal 3 for 1862 contains Mr. Blythes report on the additions 
made to the Museum of the Society up to the month of February 
of that year. A large series of bird-skins, collected mostly in the 
Tonghoo district of the valley of the Sitang Biver, and on the 
route thither across the hills from the valley of the Irrawadi, 
contained several novelties— Gecinulus viridis } Crypsirhina cu- 
cullata and Temenuchus burmanensis (both already described by 
Dr. Jerdon in this Journal), Anthocichlaphayrii (“a very re¬ 
markable thrush-like form 33 ), Pycnonotus familiaris , and Osmo- 
treron phayrii. A list of the names of the other species in 
Colonel Phayre's collection is likewise given. 
In the 5th volume of the f Transactions of the Boyal Society 
of Victoria 3 (which we have only lately met with, although its 
contents appear to consist of communications made to that 
learned body in 1860) is a paper by Mr. A. Dobree “On the Nest 
and Eggs of the Coachwhip-bird ( Psophodes crepitans) and of 
the White-fronted Ephthianura (E. albifrons), with some general 
remarks on the nidification of Australian birds. The nest and 
eggs of both the above-mentioned birds were unknown to Mr. 
Gould; and Mr. Dobree* s description of them is very full and 
satisfactory. Mr. Dobree remarks, in regard to the “ often- 
noticed scarcity of birds in Australia as compared with England/'’ 
that one reason of this is “ undoubtedly 33 that so many of the 
Australian species lay a much less number of eggs. “ Amongst 
