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Terekia cinerea near Pisa. T. Salvadori, Ibis, 1870, p. 154.
Totanus chloropygius in Scotland. R. Gray, torn. cit. p. 292.
CHARADRIID^I.
Himantopus candidus. Its breeding-habits in India. A. Hume, Ibis, 1870
p. 145. Figured, as also Hcematopus ostralegus and Glareola pratincola (ad. &
pull.), J. Gould, B. Gr. Br. pt. xviii.
Anarhynchus frontalis. Its habits: T. H. Potts, Tr. N. Z. Inst. ii. pp. 68, 69.
Its young : F. W. Hutton, Ibis, 1870, p. 394 [Zool. Rec. vi. p. 96]. Chick
exhibited and bill figured : A. Newton, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 673, 674.
HARTING, J. E. On rare or little-knowri Limicolce. Ibis, 1870, pp. 201-213,
378-392, pis. v., vi., xi.
In continuation of former papers (Zool. Rec. vi. pp. 95, 96). The species
now treated are Eudromias asiaticus and E. veredus, ^Eyialitis geoffroyi and
JE. monyolicus. The first three are figured in breeding plumage.
SWINHOE, R. On the Plovers of the genus AZgialitis found in China. P. Z. S.
1870, pp. 136-142, pi. xii.
Treats of 8 species, 2 being new: A£. hartingi, from Western China, which
is figured, and AS. dealbatus, which resembles JE. cantianus, but is resident in
Southern China, Formosa, and Hainan.
Limnetes is proposed as a new name for the genus Defilippia (Zool. Rec.
1866, p. 110). O. Finsch & G. Hartlaub, Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 640.
OTIDIDJE.
Otis tarda. History of its extermination in Norfolk. H. Stevenson, B.
Norf. ii. pp. 1^2.
GRUID^E.
Grus haydeni is a new fossil species from the tertiary beds of the Niobrara
River. 0. C. Marsh, Am. J. Sc. 1870, p. 214.
Grus cinerea in Norfolk. H. Stevenson, Tr. Norw. Soc. 1870, p. 60.
ARDEIDjE.
Pyrrherodia is a new subgenus proposed for Ardea purpurea; but no characters
are given. O. Finsch & G. Hartlaub, Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 676.
Ardea grayi is distinct from A. leucoptera, but A. idee is referred to the
latter. J. H. Gurney, Ibis, 1870, pp. 150,151.
Ardea similis from the Miocene at Steinheim. 0. Fraas, Wiirtt. JH.
p. 254, tab. vii.
Herodias garzetta and Nycticorax griseus figured. J. Gould, B. Gr. Br.
pts. xviii., xvii.
Nycticorax pauper is a new species from the Galapagos Islands, resembling
N. violaceus, but smaller, darker, and with uniform greyish-black occipital
plumes. P. L. Sclater & O. Salvin, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 327.
Calherodius cucullatus in South Africa. E. L. Layard, Ibis, 1870, p. 443.
Botaurus lentiyinosus in Ireland. H. Blake-Knox, Zool. s. s. p. 2408.
ClCONIIDjE.
Mycteria australis, its breeding. C. Home, Ibis, 1870, p. 295.