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Appendix by Mr. Blyth, in which a summary of the little we 
yet know of the natural history of this group of islands is 
given. Of the class Aves sixty-one species are enumerated, of 
which eight are, as far as is hitherto known, peculiar to the An¬ 
damans, namely, 
Hsematornis elgini, Blyth. 
Miilleripicus hodgei, Blyth. 
Picus andamanensis, Blyth. 
Dendrocitta bayleii, Tytler. 
Oreocincla infra-marginata, Blyth. 
Copsychus albiventris, Blyth. 
Osmotreron chloroptera, Blyth. 
Euryzona canningi, Tytler. 
Three others, Palceornis erythrogenys , Temenuchus erythropygius, 
and Geocichla innotata, are common to the Andamans and Nico¬ 
bar Islands. The remainder are species found also on the 
neighbouring mainland the eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal. 
Lieut.-Col. Tytler, a well-known Indian field-naturalist, being 
now in command at Port Blair, will, we have little doubt, soon 
render our knowledge of this interesting fauna much more 
complete. 
Mr. Sabine Baring-Gould's new work upon Iceland * contains 
besides various interesting passages on the birds met with during 
his travels scattered through its pages, an essay on the ornithology 
of that country, from the pen of our valued contributor Mr. Alfred 
Newton, which those who know the extent of Mr. Newton's 
acquaintance with the birds of Arctic Europe and America will 
hardly require to be told forms an exhaustive resume of the 
present state of our knowledge of this subject. Mr. Newton 
commences with a short historical summary of works relating to 
Icelandic ornithology, followed by a list of authors and their 
writings. He then proceeds to give a sketch of the avifauna 
of Iceland in the following terms :—“ The character of the avi¬ 
fauna of the country, as might have been expected from its 
geographical position, is essentially European, just as that of 
Greenland has American tendencies. Indeed, dismissing from 
our consideration the species of purely Polar type, which are 
common to the whole Arctic region, there are, as far as my 
knowledge extends, only four or five which make Iceland their 
* Iceland: its Scenes and Sagas. By Sabine Baring-Gould. London, 
1863. Smith, Elder, & Co. 
