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The Australian Fauna lias also not been neglected. 



G. R. Gray, ' List of Birds found in New Zealand, Chatham, and Auck- 

 land.' (Dieffeiib. Travels, ii, p. 186.) 84 species in all, among which are 

 several not hitherto observed, except in those islands ; I have given the 

 names in the ' Munich Society's Transactions,' xvii, p. 58. Strickland, 

 ' Remarks on a Collection of Australian Drawings of Birds,' the property of 

 the Earl of Derby. (Annals, xi. p. 333.) G. R. Gray, ' Correction of the 

 Nomenclature of Australian Birds.' (Ib. p. 189.) Latham has published 

 numerous species of Australian birds from drawings furnished by White, the 

 edit or of the 'Journal of New South Wales,' but in such an insufficient man- 

 ner, that we should be thankful that Strickland and Gray, with whom Gould 

 also has been associated, have undertaken to determine Latham's species more 

 accurately by comparison with the original drawings. Of Gould's magnifi- 

 cent work, ' The Birds of Australia,' Parts x, xi, xii, and xiii have appeared 

 in 1843. 



Among general anatomical works are to be noticed : 



W. v. Rapp ' On the Tonsils of Birds.' (Midler's Archiv fur Auat. 

 1843, p. 19.) He has succeeded in finding tonsils also in birds. Stanuius 

 ' On. the Lymphatic.Hearts of Birds.' (Ib. p. 449.) He has discovered these 

 organs in the Stork, Ostrich, Indian Cassowary, Goose, Swan, Colymbus, 

 and Alca, and has observed transversely striated, primitive muscular fasciculi 

 in these species. 



Amongst the traces of an ancient world, geologists have not only more 

 than ever satisfied themselves of the occurrence of the footmarks of birds, 

 but have now gone so far as to believe that they possess indications of the 

 rain that has fallen in those ancient periods. In the red sand-stone of 

 Connecticut especially, it is that Hitchcock, Vanuxem, Lyell, Mantell, &c., 

 believe that not only the footmarks of birds, but also the marks of raindrops 

 of the primitive world can be recognized. (Ann. Nat. Hist, xi, pp. 322, 513.) 



With such an ever increasing subtilty of observation it is not impossible 

 that in time the senses of geologists may be so exalted that they will be 

 able to hear the grass grow. 



ACCIP1TRES. 



Schlegel, in the before-mentioned work, has completed 

 his Account of the Diurnal Raptorial Birds of Europe. 



A very valuable work, and one that could not have been produced but by an 

 ornithologist possessing the comprehensive knowledge of the author, and 



