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distinction than did John Wolley that which this one discovery 
will always associate with his name. 
Elveden, 20th November, 1860. 
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IX.— Recent Ornithological Publications. 
1. English Publications. 
The 30th number of Mr. Breeds work is just issued, and com¬ 
pletes the second volume of ‘ The Birds of Europe not observed 
in the British Isles/ 
2. French Publications. 
We have received the c Bevue et Ma'gasin de Zoologie 3 up to 
No. 10 for 1860. Dr. Saccos article “sur les Poules de Nankin 
dites de Cochinchine” (p. 329 et seq .) contains more economical 
than zoological information concerning this exaggerated variety 
of the Domestic Fowl, which seems to have originated in the 
warmer portions of the interior of China. Like the Chinese 
Sheep, its great value consists inits extreme prolificness. In 
1858, Dr. Sacc informs us, the number of eggs laid by five 
pairs of Cochinchinas amounted to no less than 732, or 146 
for each hen ! In their essay “ on the Birds of New Caledonia,” 
in Nos. 9 and 10, ■ MM. Jules Yerreaux and Des Murs have 
made an important contribution to our knowledge of geogra¬ 
phical distribution, and have also introduced us to the acquaint¬ 
ance of several novel and interesting forms. Their article is 
founded on materials furnished by a collection of the natural 
products of this new French colony, made under the superin¬ 
tendence of M. Saisset, commander of the French naval forces 
in the Pacific, which has been deposited in the “ Exposition des 
produits des colonies,” now on view in the Palais de PIndustrie 
in the Champs Ely sees at Paris. The series of birds there exhi¬ 
bited, taken in connexion with the species indicated by previous 
authorities on the subject*, give us the number of 76 species 
now ascertained as belonging to the Avifauna of New Caledonia; 
of which no less than 45 are, as far as is hitherto known, pecu- 
* Sclater in f Ibis,’ 1859, p. 27, and G. R. Gray in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, 
p. 160. 
