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otherwise have been able to profit by it. Professor Sundevall takes 

 exception (in a kind letter which accompanies a copy of the work) 

 to our remarks ('Ibis/ 1863, p. 226) on his identification of the 

 Kvavo^ and KopvSa\o<i of Aristotle. Upon reperusing his notice 

 of these two terms in the translation, we must admit that the 

 Kvavof as described by Aristotle is more like Tichodroma muraria 

 than Petrocincla cyanea, and that Professor Sundevall is also pro- 

 bably right in his identification of the two species of KopvBak6<i. 

 Professor Sundevall's work will be invaluable to the compilers of 

 the next classical dictionary in which the correct interpretation of 

 zoological terms is attempted. Professor Sundevall identifies the 

 following terms rather difi"erently from their usual acceptation : — 

 No. 90, p. 128, yX(»TTi9. lynx toi'quilla. 



112, p. 141, arra'yrjv. Perdix cinerea. 

 47, p. 112, rerpL^. Pratincola rubetra ! 



151, p. 158, al^via. Larus (prob.) marinusl 



Dr. A. E. Brehm, now Director of the recently established 

 Zoological Garden in Hamburg, has lately published an account 

 of the journey made in the suite of H.R.H. the Duke of Saxe- 

 Coburg-Gotha in Eastern Africa in 1861, and his observations 

 on the various species of mammals and birds met with during 

 his travels *. From Massoua on the Red Sea, whither Dr. 

 Brehm had proceeded first, in order to make preparations for the 

 noble traveller, several short excursions were made into the 

 interior. After the arrival of the Duke, on the 1st of April, a 

 final start was made. But, for some reason or other, not clearly 

 explained (perhaps the hardships of African travel did not 

 agree with the constitution of the illustrious Prince), the party 

 turned back after some twenty days' advance, and left for home 

 again on the 26th of April. Not unnaturally, our philosopher 

 complains of want of time, although he appears to have been 

 also sore stricken with fever. 



In the ornithological part of his present work. Dr. Brehm 

 first gives a systematic list of 172 species of birds seen by him 



* Ergebnisse einer Reise nach Habesch im Gefolge Seiner Hoheit des 

 regierenden Herzog svom Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, Ernst II. Von Dr. A. E. 

 Brehm, &c. Hamburg, 1863, 1 vol. 



