40 Reciew of the new Continuation 



species to the British hst of occasional visitors ; though I am 

 far from believing that this is really its first occurrence in our 

 island. It very closely resembles the C. eui^opceus, and is almost 

 sure to be confounded with that species by the casual observer. 



Nevvoastle-ou-Tyne, 12 Sept. 1861. 



IX. — Review of Drs. Blasius's and Baldamus's Continuation 

 of Naumann's ' Vogel Deutschlands/* 



If a proj)het has no honour in his own country, the rule is dif- 

 ferent as regards the naturalist. None of the sciences seem to 

 have been so much tmged by local colouring as those which have 

 to do with the Earth and its inhabitants. Geologists have even 

 made it a subject of complaint that the progress of their study 

 was actually hindered by the partial and partisan treatment it 

 received from its early votaries. Accustomed as we in England 

 are to reverence those who have laboured to elucidate the fauna 

 and flora of these islands, we cannot be surprised that the same 

 feelings should animate our Teutonic brethren. 



Justly then is the name of Naumann dear to the German 

 lovers of nature, for the two ornithologists who have borne it 

 have collectively done more perhaps to add to the knowledge of 

 their country's birds than all its other writers put together ; 

 though it cannot be denied that the reputation of the father, 

 respectable as it was, would probably have by this time been 

 shrouded in obscurity but for the lustre shed upon it by the 

 labours of the son. The only British naturalist whose writings 

 have placed him among his nation's classical authors — Gilbert 

 White — has well said that "Every kingdom, every province, 

 should possess its own monographer ; " and to this honourable 

 title in the department of German ornithology none have more 

 right than the two authors of the ' Naturgeschichte der Vogel 

 Deutschlands.^ 



The elder Naumann — Johann xVndreas — born in 1744, com- 



* J. A. Naumann's Naturgeschichte der Vogel Deutschlauds. Fortset- 

 zuny der Nachtrage, Zusdlze unci Verbesserunyen von Dr. J. H. Blasiu.s, 

 Dr. Ed. Baluamus, und Dr. Fr. 8turm. Dreizehuter Theil. 8 Liefer- 

 tmg. Schhiss dcs gaiizen Werkes. Stuttgart : 18t)0. 



