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Nepalese bird has not even a trace of the large and conspicuous 
white ante-ocular spot. 
That Zosterops japonicus (p. 365) of N.E. Asia should be 
identical with Z. chloronotus, Gould*, of Western Australia, is, 
when we recollect that Z. chloronotus itself is only the West- 
Australian representative of Z, dorsalis , a statement so entirely 
contrary to the canons of geographical distribution, that we should 
hardly believe our eyes if it were proved to us by actual com¬ 
parison of specimens. But what can we say when this identity 
is established merely on an examination of Mr. Gould's figure 
of the Australian bird ? The two species are, in truth, conspi¬ 
cuously different, the Asiatic bird being much smaller, and 
having the abdomen very differently coloured. 
Tetrao canadensis (p. 399). It is now well known, we should 
have thought, to every European naturalist, that the Siberian 
Grouse, called by Middendorf by this name, is by no means 
identical with the American T. canadensis or T. franklinii , whether 
these be considered as two species or as one. Dr. Hartlaub 
pointed out the very marked and unmistakeable characters which 
separate the Asiatic Tetrao falcipennis from the American bird 
in 1855 (Cab. Journ. f. Orn. p. 39), and examples of the former 
with its singularly constructed wing are now found in most of 
the larger collections of Europe f. 
It would be easy to continue remarks of the same sort as the 
preceding; but we rather return to Dr. v. Schrenck's general 
observations on the birds of Amoorland—a subject to which he 
has devoted some very interesting pages. Of the 190 species 
enumerated in the body of the work as appertaining to this por¬ 
tion of its fauna, he considers -^ths to be Europseo-Siberian 
and ^jths Siberian, the remaining y^th being intruders from 
Southern Asia and more distant localities. An examination of 
the eighteen species which are included in the latter category 
gives us but few belonging to really extraneous types. Peri - 
crocotus and Zosterops are the two most noticeable, if not the 
only such, of which the former is a pure Indian genus, and the 
* The true name of this bird is Z. gouldi, Bp. (Consp. p. 398),—Z. 
chloronotus being a Mauritian species. 
f We may particularize those of Paris, Bremen, and Brunswick. 
