1G NOTICES OF SERIALS. 



(Dubois) Coloured plates of birds— p. 168-17G. (Hartlaub) Indian Ornithology 

 — p. 317-330. (Same) Grus hoyanus DwiJ. — p. 336. (Sundevall) Pterylography 

 of birds ; with a plate— p. 118-168. 



Naumannia u. s. w. Archives of Ornithology, especially European. 



Organ of the German Ornithological Society. By Baldamus. 8vo. Stuttgart. 



Vol. V. 1855. 



(Altum) Directions for collecting, stuffing, and setting up skins of Birds ; with 

 two plates — p. 20-38, 301-307. (Same; Supplement to the descriptions and 

 figures of the Swans of Germany in the volume for 1854 — p. 101-103. (Same) 

 Cyanecula suecica, orientalis, dichrosterna, wolffii; with a plate — p. 166-170. 

 (Same) On the bleating of Snipes — p. 362. (Antinori) Cypselus galilejensis, 

 a supposed new species of Swift; translated from the Italian ; with a plate — p. 

 307-311. (Berger) Attempt at a Natural Classification of Birds— p. 196-212. 

 (Blasius) On the questionable species in the list of European Birds — p. 480-489. 

 (Boeck) Preliminary remarks on the Ornithological Fauna of the province Val- 

 divia, in Chili — p. 494-513. (Bolle and Hausmann) Variety of provincial names 

 applied to the birds of Brandenburg — p. 317 321. (Bolsmann) Vulgar names 

 of Birds in Muensterlandand Niederstift — p. 313-317. (Brahts) Ornithological 

 Fauna of Neuwied— p. 329-361. (Brehm, A.) Contributions to the Ornitho- 

 logy of North-Eastern Africa, with especial reference to the species which occur 

 in Europe — p. 1-28. (Brehm, L.) The markings of the throat in birds in rela- 

 tion to their vocal powers — p. 54-59. (Same) A word on Aqaila pennata and 

 minuta — p. 60-65. (Same) List of the European birds in species and sub- 

 species — p. 266-271. (Gadamer) Natural History of CEdemia fusca, Anas 

 fusca L. — p. 89-92. Of Numenius arquata—Q. 92-94. Of Pavo cristatus — p. 

 94-96. (Gerhardt) On the habits of the Birds of North America, which occur in 

 Georgia— p. 380-397, 458-469. (Hansmann) On the voice of birds ; in letters 

 to Bolle— p. 96-101, 181-195. (Hummel) Ornithological notes from Courland 

 — p. 321-327. (Jaeckel) Vulgar names of birds of Bavaria— p. 70-73. (Kjser- 

 bolling) On the Gentle Falcons of the high Northern latitudes — p. 489-493. 

 (Landbeck) Bemarks on the Birds of the Mindelthal and Kamelthal in Bavaria, 

 —p. 73-88. (Olph-Galliard) On the European Redstarts— p. 39-43. (Same) 

 List of the Birds found about Lyons — p. 44-53. (Same) On the Theory of dis- 

 coloration, exemplified in Pterocles setarius, and on the place of the Pterodinae 

 in the system — p. 311-313. (Selys Longchamps) Addenda to the Remarks on 

 the true Geese of Europe — p. 397, 398. (VVallengren) On Breeding zones of 

 Birds in Scandinavia ; continued — p. 129-165, 429-527. (Warthausen, Baron) 

 The state of birds during the last winter — p. 171-180. (Wodzicki, Count) On 

 Aquila pennata — p. 65-69. (Same) On the eggs of the same bird — p. 327, 328. 

 Ornithological Notes from R. Vierthaler's Diary of Travels in Egypt, Nubia, 

 Dongola, and Sennaar; communicated by the Editor, p. 371-380, 469-479. 

 Intelligence— p. 104-127, 213-225, 398-428, 513-522. Report of the Ninth 

 General Meeting of the German Ornithological Society; with a plate — p. 226-265. 



Commencing with the year 1856, this journal appears in an enlarged form ; a 

 Number coming out every alternate month, making annually a volume of thirty - 

 six sheets, royal 8vo., with four plates, or with a greater number of plates and 

 less letter-pvess. Such clear print and fair white paper are absolutely refreshing 

 to the eyes, and not least so by contrast, in juxtaposition with some contemporary 

 scientific journals, also from Germany. The British student of Natural History, 

 whom the agreeable gossip about birds, in the pages of " the Zoologist" or 

 "the Naturalist," may have inoculated with the desire to go a little deeper into the 

 scientific study of this most attractive class of living creatures, will find abun 

 dance to gratify the appetite in the perusal of " Naumannia," both as regards 

 the feathered natives of the British islands and the birds of Continental Europe 

 generally, some of which are occasional visitants nere, and others may at inter- 

 vals be driven to our shores by accident ; and this, whether his taste be chiefly 

 towards the study of their habits and instincts, or incline rather to the more 



