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Letters , Announcements, fyc. 
we have previously spoken*, seems, after all, to be perhaps 
only an individual variety of Coturnix dactylisonans. Of the 
fact of its having been obtained in Lombardv we believe there 
can be no question. No lover of birds who visits Milan 
should omit to pay a visit to the Casa Turati and its hospitable 
proprietor. 
New Series of the Zoologist. —The 113th number of the 
‘ Zoologist/ issued last month, closes the second series of this 
popular periodical, which has done very much, as most of our 
readers well know, to promote the study of natural history 
among the rising generation. The number is for the most 
part very appropriately occupied with a portrait and memoir 
of the late Mr. Edward Newman, the founder and, for thirty- 
four years, editor of the f Zoologist.'’ A new series, com¬ 
menced on the 1st of this month, is edited by our colleague 
Mr. J. E. Harting, whose abilities to carry on the good work 
satisfactorily no one is likely to question. 
New Work on the Fauna of Belgium. —We have received 
a prospectus and specimen of a new work on the fauna of 
Belgium, to be entitled “ Faune Illustree des Vertebres de la 
Belgique par Alphonse Dubois,” and to be published by Mu- 
quardt and Co., of Brussels. The series containing the birds 
will be issued in 140 livraisons at 2 francs each, and will 
give coloured figures of the birds, adult and young, and 
their eggs and nests. This series will ultimately form three 
volumes, 8vo. 
Tonquin and the way there. —Amongst the Parliamentary 
papers lately issued is a Report by Sir B. Robertson, H.B.M. 
Consul at Canton, of a visit lately paid by him to Haiphong 
and Hanoi—two new ports lately opened by the French at 
Tonquin. Hanoi, the capital of Tonquin, is situated on the 
Song-koi, or Red River, about 100 miles from its mouth. 
• See Ibis, 1862, p. 380, and Mr. Howard Saunders’s remarks, Ibis, 
1869, p.393. 
