120 Recent Or nit holoyical Publications. 



transitory in the modern representatives of the class, and a closer 

 adhesion to the general Vertebrate type." 



2. French Publications. 



Messrs. Florent Prevost and C. L. Lemaire have published a 

 volume * on the birds of Europe, which has, at all events, the 

 merit of being cheap. We believe it to be only recently published ; 

 but there is no date on the title-page or anywhere else in the 

 volume, that we can discover. Although called a history of the 

 birds of Europe, and spoken of in the avant-propos as about to 

 treat of more than 400 species, the volume deals only with the 

 Insessorial birds, or Omnivores, Insectivores, Granivores, and 

 Zygodactyles and Anisodactyles of Temminck^s arrangement. 

 But no second volume is announced. The most novel thing wc 

 can find in it is the following truly Prench story of a Common 

 Swallow : — 



" On dit qu'un cordonnier du Bale, ayant mit a une Hiron- 

 delle de fenetre un collier sur lequel etait ecrit — 



' Hirondelle, qui est si belle, 

 Dis-moi I'hiver ou vas-tu ? ' 



re^ut le printemps suivant, et par le meme courier, cette reponse 

 h sa demande — 



' A Athenes, cliez Antoine. 

 Pourquoi t'en informes-tu ? ' " 



Even this, though amusing, has not, we fear, the merit of 

 truth in its favour. 



3. German Publications. 



The second part of Wiegmann^s ^Archiv^ for 1863 contains the 

 termination of Philippi and Landbeck's " Beitrage zur Pauna 

 von Peru," to which we referred in our last Number. Their 

 new species Leistes albipcs is closely allied to Sturnella militaris 

 (at least we suppose this to be the species indicated by Philippi 

 under the name Leistes americanus) ,diXidi in all probability identical 



* ' Ilistoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Europe,' par Florent Prevost et 

 C. L. Lemaire. 1 vol. 8vo, Paris, 80 coloured plates, price 25 fr. 



