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of those are of a general or local character, relating mainly to European birds, 

 though several of them are highly interesting. In the entire series of .thirty 

 volumes, there are on'y seven descriptions of species presumed to have been 

 previously unknown, and which we give in a succeeding page of this article ; 

 and, also, we propose to give an inventory or general reckoning of the entire 

 ornithological contents of this periodical, not premising in the least that it is 

 either an extended or difficult enterprise. But as we have frequently seen this 

 Journal cited by the older authors, and even occasionally in books of recent 

 formation, (mostly conglomerate,) we have looked up these ornithological ar- 

 tides to the end that hereafter they shall be seen truly, not only by ourselves, 

 but also by such others who, like us, may have found out that there i3 a differ- 

 ence between hearing and believing, and even between looking and seeing 1 . 

 Any one can look, but comparatively few, see, and, at least, light shall no longer 

 be wanting on " Der Naturforscher." 



The words of our choice text for this interesting occasion, beloved brethren, 

 we shall not dwell upon nor enlarge upon, even not so much as might conduce 

 to solid profit in a moral sense; both somewhat of time and inclination being 

 wanting, and an homily, fortunately perhaps, not necessary. Who has suffered, 

 beloved, not for his fault, but thine ? And in the vast affluence of the field of 

 study and solid acquirement spread before thee, not only in the libraries and 

 museums established by the governments of all civilized nations, but in our 

 own times, in the countries of our native language and by our own contempo- 

 raries, such high souled and ever memorable men as Thomas B. Wilson and 

 Henry Bryant, John Henry Gurney and Osbert Salvin, art thou indeed but a 

 siarvling? We wait not for answer, but proceed about our business with some 

 soberness of thought, (and with recommendatory suggestion.) 



Here follows a list of all the memoirs relating to Ornithology in this Journal, 

 and, at the end of that, a list of the species of Birds therein described, as cer- 

 tainly intended and supposed by the authors (but generally erroneously,) for 

 the first time. 



List of memoirs on Ornithology in "Der Naturforseher" alphabetically arranged, 

 after a fashion, so far as relates to the writers of them. 



Bechstein, J. M. Bergrath. 



1. Bemerkungen uber die Motacillen, vol. xxvii. p. 38, (1793.) 



Beckmans, Johann, Professor zu Gcettingen. 



1. Linneische Synonjmie zu Kleins verbesserterHistorie der Voegel, vol. l. 

 p. 65,(1774.) 

 Bocks. Consistorialrath zu Kcenigsberg. 



1 Preussiche Oruithologie, vol. viii. p. 39, (1776) ; ix. p. 39, (1776) ; xii. 

 p. 131, (1778); xiii. p. 201, (1779); xvii. p. 66, (1782.) 



Gotz Georg Friedrich. Candidatus in Hanau, Lehrer der Durchlauchtigsten 

 Prinzessinnen zu Hessen-Cassel. 



1. Anmerkungen zu des Herrn Professor Sanders zweytem Beytrag znr 

 Geschichte der Vogel im 13 ten Stuck desNaturforschers, S. 179, vol. xv. 

 p. 157, (1781.) 



2. Forgesetzte Beytriige zur Ornithologie, vol. xix. p. 78, (1783.) 



3. Ueber die anomalisch weissen Vogel, vol. xvi. p. 37, (1781.) 



4. Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte des Mauerspechts, Certhia muraria, Linn, 

 vol. xvii. p. 40. (1782.) 



5. Naturgeschichte des Silber und weifsen Phasans, vol. xvi. p. 122, (1781.) 



6. " des Goldphasans, vol. xiv. p. 204, (1780.) 



7. " des Kronvogels, Columba coronata, Linn., vol. xvii. 

 p. 32, (1782.) 



Grillo, F. Professor. 



1. Ornithologtsche Bemerkungen auf Veranlassung des Naturforschers be- 

 kannt gemacht, vol. xxii. p. 127, (1787); xxv. p. 13, (1791.) 



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