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Ornithology from Formosa. 
Mr. Fortune's Eudynamis australis, Sw., from China (p. 32), 
must surely be a joke. I shall have again to appeal to my 
collection at home. E. orientalis I have received from Siam, /&' > 
and I know it to be the Philippine species. The Australian 
species would have therefore, if really found in China, to 
traverse the ground of its Asiatic ally twice a year in its 
migrations. This can scarcely be likely. 
The note on Turnix (p. 33) is highly interesting. T\ maculosa , s 
Ternm., is the commoner species in South China. The other 
is allied to T. ocellata, Scop., but I am not yet prepared to 
affirm that it is identical with it. 1 mentioned, in a letter, that 
my new Formosan species, T. rostrata (allied to T. maculosa ), 
was shot while attending to its young [Ibis, 1865, p. 543], and i/ 
that on dissection it proved to be a male, and that its mate was 
not forthcoming. I am inclined to think that even in its 
nidificatory instincts the Struthious affinities are prominent, and 
that it will be eventually found that the entire duties of incuba¬ 
tion are attended to solely by the male. It would be as well to 
call the attention of observers in other parts of the world to 
this important idea. The four chickens of T. rostrata that 
I procured under the circumstances before detailed I have 
bottled, and shall be sending home shortly for Mr. Parker's 
investigation. 
Sturnus dauricus, Pall. (p. 41, note), has occurred at Tientsin 
(North China) in summer. I should like much to know 
whether it is found in the Malayan peninsula all the year. 
Fregilus graculus from Java ( loc . cit.) : I can confidently affirm 
that I saw a mounted specimen of this species in the “ India 
Museum" marked “Java." 
Cypselus subfurcatus, Blyth ( loc . cit.), as its name implies, has 
a more furcate tail than its ally C. affinis, J. E. Gray. The 
mistake is not mine, but the printer's. While on misprints I 
may just mention one that ought specially to. be corrected. It 
occurs in my e Formosan Ornithology,' 5th line. For 
“ birds'-eggs " read “ birds' legs." 
Butalis kypogrammica, Wallace (p. 43). While in England 
I saw a specimen of this bird in the British Museum, and was 
struck with its resemblance to my B.griseisticta. I allowed myself, 
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