224 Recent Omit ho Logical Publications. 
Dr. Hartlaub's masterly review of the species of this genus, 
published in the ‘ Journal fur Ornithologie 3 for 1853, or with 
modern ornithological writings generally, so far as they bear on 
this subject. We are enabled to state, on the highest authority, 
that LandbeclC s supposed new species, Fulica rufifrons, is Fulica 
leucopyga of HartlauVs monograph, and that Landbeck*s F. 
chloropoides is F. stricklandi, and Landbeck* s F. chilensis F. 
armillata of the same work. “ The original specimen of 
the very large F. chilensis of DesMurs 'and of Gay is certainly 
not the bird described under that name by Landbeck. The 
Fidica chilensis of Landbeck is the very common f Focha de ligas 
roxas 3 of Azara. The true F. chilensis, of which the type is in 
the Paris Museum, has no red on the legs, and is altogether a 
larger bird/ Landbeck, however, gives an interesting notice of 
the colossal Fulica gigantea , which appears to occur only in the 
high lakes of Northern Chile, at an elevation of some 16,000 
feet, among the Andes. 
In the f Bulletin of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of 
Moscow 3 for 1861 will be found some field-notes*, by Arthur 
Nordman, on the Amurian Tetrao urogalloides, the eastern repre¬ 
sentative of the Capercailzie of Europe. Mr. Nordman* s hunt¬ 
ing-grounds for this bird were in the neighbourhood of the 
Russian colony Staro-Michailowsk, on the right bank of the 
Amoor, about 200 wersts from the mouth of that river. The 
Tetrao urogalloides seems quite as different in its manners arid 
customs, as in its plumage and structure, from T. urogalius; 
and those who are acquainted with the curious habits of the 
European bird during the pairing-season will read with much 
interest Mr. Nordman* s excellent description of the different 
but equally singular behaviour of its Amurian representative 
during the same period. 
Since we last addressed our readers, Dr. Schlegel has kindly 
forwarded the first part of the new Dutch Zoological Journal t, 
* “ Einige Beobachtungen liber den Auerhahn am Amur/’ von Arthur 
Nordman; Bull. Imp. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxiv.p.261. 
t Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde, uitgegeven door het 
Koninklijk Zoologisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra te Amsterdam 
