Recent Ornithological Publications. 181 



Dr. Bree published a volume* especially designed to refute the 

 mischievous tendencies of Mr. Darwin's hypothesis; and as 

 hitherto the learned author of the celebrated treatise ' On the 

 Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection' has not thought 

 fit to reply to Dr. Bree's objections, we should have imagined 

 the latter gentleman might have contented himself, if he has any 

 faith in his own views, with the supposition that they were un- 

 answerable, and accordingly have refrained from further notice 

 of the subject. On the contrary, of Dr. Bree, as of Alexander, 

 it may be said that " thrice he slew the slain," for at least as 

 many times quite recently has he taken occasion to celebrate the 

 triumph of his teleological arguments over those adduced by his 

 enemy. 



We cannot recognize the validity of the reasons Dr. Bree urges 

 for not giving due place to Turtur rupicola (Pall.) = Columba 

 gelastes, Temm., and for omitting a figure of that species, as, in 

 spite of Dr. v. Schrenck's opinion, we must advisedly call it. The 

 British Museum contains several specimens of this Dove, and it 

 seems to us to deserve recognition fully as much as Hiimndo 

 cahirica. 



2. Russian and Scandinavian Publications. 



The fourth number of the * Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des 

 Naturalistes de Moscou,' for 1860 (vol. xxxiii. p. 488), contains 

 a paper by M. J. Schatilofi" on the birds he has collected in 

 Tauriaf. M. Schatilofi"'s station of observation is at Schati- 

 lofka, a village situated at the embouchure of the Karam into the 

 Putrid Sea. He began collecting in 1854 in company with M. 

 H. G. Radde, the well-known naturalist of the Russian Scientific 

 Expedition to Amoorland. To the 185 species enumerated by 

 the latter gentleman in his ' Beitragen zu der Ornithologie Siid- 

 Russlands,' M. Schatilofi" has been enabled to add 33 others, and 

 in his catalogue altogether enumerates 228 species. As M. 

 Schatilofi" himself admits, this cannot be considered a complete 



* Species not Transmutable, nor the Result of Secondary Causes, &c. 

 By C. R. Bree, M.D., F.L.S. London, 1860. 



t Katalog mcines ornithologischen Museums dev Yogel Tauriens. Von 

 J. Schatiloff. 



