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important contribution to any claim made by us to our 

 knowledge of the European Fauna, as well as forming a 

 necessary supplement to Temmiiick's Manuel. From its 

 being written both in German and French (in opposite 

 columns) the circulation of this important and, to every 

 ornithologist, indispensable work, is thereby insured. 



Die Vogel Europa's. Eine systematische Uebersicht der 

 synonymen Gattungeu nnd der einzelnen Arten nach ihrer 

 naturlichen Verwandschaft zusammengestellt, von L. Selliers 

 von Moranville. Wien, 1844, 57, S. 8. 



The author, who is amanuensis to the court library, has quite stepped out 

 of his proper place, though limiting himself to a mere record of names 

 without further explanations. 



Die Wanderuugzeit der gewohnlichsten Zug-und Strich- 

 vogel im Amte Idstein im Jahre, 1842, has been given by 

 Chr. Unzicker. ( Jahrbuclier des Vereins fur Naturkunde im 

 Herzogthum Nassau, Wiesb. 1844, S. 101.) 



A list of the Birds collected by him in north-eastern 

 Siberia, has been published by Th. v. Midden dorf in the 

 Bullet, de la Classe phys. math, de FAcad. de Petersb. iii, 

 p. 295. Ely th's List of Birds from the vicinity of Calcutta, 

 is continued in the Ann. of Nat. Hist, xiii, pp. 32, 113, 175, 

 and xiv, pp. 34, 108. Strickland has given special obser- 

 vations upon it, xiii, p. 204. 



Von den Verhandclingen over die natuurl. Geschiedenis 

 der. Nederl. ovezeesche Bezitt. No continuation of the 

 ornithological text has appeared in 1844, but only 4 plates 

 of figures in No. 10 of the zoological section. 



Fauna Japonica auctore Ph. Fr. de Siebold. Anhnalia 

 Yertebrata elaborantibus Temminck et Schlegel. Aves. 

 fasc. 1. 



This first Part contains the commencement of the rapacious Birds observed 

 by the Dutch travellers, and of these the following : Falco commimis, F. 

 tinnmiciilus japonicus, Astur nis-us, Astur gitlaris, Spizaetos oriental!*, Circus 

 idiyinosus, LLal'uetus pelac/icus, P audio n Halite tus orientalis and albicilla, 

 Milous melanotis, Bitteo japonicus, B. hemilasius, B. polyogenys, Peniis 

 apivorw. The accompanying plates HIT of signal beauty, and display a 



