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Recent Ornithological Publications. 



IX. — Recent Ornithological Publications. 



1. English Publications. 



In our own country we have to welcome the appearance of the 



3rd and 4th Parts of Mr. Gould's ' Birds of Great Britain/ in 



which the following species are illustrated : — 



Part III. 



Great Spotted Woodpecker. 



Golden Eagle. 



Sea-Eagle. 



Nightjar or Goatsucker. 



Great-crested Grebe. 



Red-necked Grebe. 



Eared Grebe. 



Swallow. 



Sand- Martin. 



Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. 



Green Woodpecker. 



Nuthatch. 



Land-Rail. 



Water- Rail. 



Meadow-Pipit. 



Part IV. 



Common Buzzard. Common Snipe. 



Snowy Owl. Great Snipe. 



Long-eared Owl. Summer Snipe. 



Short-eared Owl. Steller's Duck. 



Pallas's Sandgrouse. Goldfinch. 



Wren. Common Sparrow. 



Golden-crested Wren. Tree-Sparrow. 



Fire-crested Wren. 

 Of the merits of this great work we have already spoken in a 

 former notice of the two first parts *. It will be observed that, 

 in the case of the Eared Grebe, Mr. Gould has I'ightly rejected 

 the specific term auritus, which Temminck misapplied to this 

 bird, the true Colymbus auritus of Linnseus being, no doubt, 

 nothing more than the Podiceps cornutus, or Sclavonian Grebe. 

 The Eared Grebe of the South of Europe and Northern Africa 

 (concerning the breeding of which Mr. Tristram has given us 

 some details in a former volume of this Journal f) is correctly 

 named Podiceps nigricollis (Gm.). 



' Natural History and Sport in Moray, collected from the 

 Journals and Letters of the late Charles St. John,' is the 

 title of a volume recently J published in Edinburgh, consisting 

 " entirely of the observations and notes of Charles St. John," 



♦ Ibis, 1863, p. 102. 



t Edmonston and Douglas, 1863. 



t Ibis, 1860, p. 159. 



