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Mr. P. L. Sclater on new 
country. It contains many papers of interest by the editor 
and other Indian ornithologists. But we must protest against 
the publication of such articles as that by Capt. Hutton on 
the “ Parroquets of India/' in which one species is described 
as “ totally distinct '' because it sits still all day, and another 
(not yet obtained) because it is said to breed at a different 
season. Mr. Stoliczka gives an interesting note on the struc¬ 
ture of Indicator , in confirmation of its affinity to the Capi- 
tonidse. 
We believe that no portion of Mr. Hume's new general 
work on Indian birds, to be entitled ( A Conspectus of the 
Avifauna of India and its dependencies,' has yet made its 
appearance. 
Major Godwin-Austen's last visit to the Naga Hills and 
Munipore has resulted in the discovery of ten new species of 
birds, which were described at the Zoological Society's meet¬ 
ing on the 6th of January last. These were named Sitta na- 
gensis, Garrulax galbanus, G. albosuperciliaris , Trochalopteron 
cineraceum, T. virgatum, Actinodura waldeni, Layardia r£bi- 
ginosa, Prinia rufula, Cisticola munipurensis , and Munia subun- 
dulata. An eleventh has since been described in the Annals 
of Nat. Hist. (ser. 4, vol. xiii. p. 160) as Sibia pulchella. 
Hr. John Anderson, of Calcutta, is in this country on leave, 
but by no means idle, as he is engaged in working up the 
zoological collections of the “Yunan" Expedition, to which 
he was attached as naturalist. After some pressure the Indian 
Government have been induced to give liberal aid to this un¬ 
dertaking ; and the results will shortly be published in the 
Linnean Society's f Transactions.' The new species of birds 
have, it will be recollected, been already diagnosed in the 
P. Z. S. 1871, p. 211; but the forthcoming work will give an 
account of all the species met with in the terra incognita tra¬ 
versed by the expedition. 
As regards the more eastern parts of the Indian region, we 
hear of a work on the birds of Borneo, mainly founded on 
Horia's collections in Sarawak, as shortly to be published in 
Italy*. Of Lord Walden's valuable article on the birds of the 
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