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the author in the paper formerly noticed, as above, in this jour¬ 
nal ; and two others, Crater opus Salvador ii and Sylvia dories, are 
now characterized as new. The Ornis of Western Persia is most 
decidedly European in its type, there having been only about 
five species observed by Prof, de Filippi which do not show 
themselves in our own quarter of the globe. It is said that the 
Houbara Bustard of Persia is Houbara undulata and not H. 
macqueeni. If so, we suppose it is also the former species which 
is the “ dweller in Mesopotamia,” and not the latter as has 
usually been thought. 
Dr. Salvadori has had the goodness to send us copies of two 
papers lately communicated by him to the Italian Society of 
Natural Sciences. The first* contains the characters of two new 
genera, Defilippia and Heteronetta, respectively founded on Chce- 
tusia crassirostris , De Filippi (J. f. 0. 1855, p. 427), and Anas 
melanocephala , Yieillot (Nouv. Diet. v. p. 163), A. nigriceps , 
Lichtenstein—the last specific, being, we believe, the one that 
should stand, since melanocephala , was previously applied by 
Gmelin to a very different bird. The secondf paper consists of 
the descriptions of eight or nine new birds, Melaniparus semilar- 
vatus from the Himalaya, Megalophonus rufocinnamomeus from 
Abyssinia, Lamprocolius defilippii from Angola, (Edicnemus indicus 
!tl*i (=(E. crepitans ex India), CE. inornatus from the White Nile, 
31 Porphyriops leucopterus from the Argentine Territory, Podiceps 
affinis , apparently the South American representative of P. cooperi , 
and Uria craverii from California, besides a Buzzard from Eastern 
Africa, about which some doubts are entertained, but for which, 
if it prove new, the name Buteo auguralis is proposed. 
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4. Scandinavian. 
The trite adage that “ a great book is a great evil ” is one 
that is often forcibly impressed upon ornithologists; Professor 
SundevalFs new catalogue of Woodpeckers J, which contains 
* Intorno a due nuovi generi di Uccelli. Atti della Societa Italiana di 
Scienze Naturali. Yol. viii. Milano: 1866. 
t Descrizione di altre nuove specie di Uccelli. Tomo citato. 
J Conspectus Avium Picinarum : edidit Carolus J. Sundevall. 
Stockholmise : 1866. (London: Williams and Norgate.) 8vo, pp. 116. 
