182 Recent Oi'nithuloyical Publications. 



list of the birds of the Chersonese^ as other species have been 

 recorded by competent authorities who have written on the fauna 

 of this region. Nevertheless M. Schatiloflf^s paper may be con- 

 sulted with advantage, being good as far as it goes. 



The only contribution to ornithology we have to record from 

 Denmark is the paper on the structure and affinities of Balani- 

 ceps by Professor Keinhardt, of which we give a translation in 

 our present Number. This question seems likely to become a 

 cause celebre in ornithological controversy. Might we be allowed 

 to suggest that the distinctions between the Ciconince and 

 Ardeince require more precise definition than has as yet been laid 

 down ? We think that this step is necessary before the discus- 

 sion is carried further. 



The ninth part of Professor Sundevall's ' Svenska Foglarna ' 

 has been published. This work, to which we have already 

 several times alluded, will no doubt be found as useful to his 

 countrymen as it is instructive to foreigners. The author is a 

 particularly safe guide, and though we may not entirely agree 

 with his somewhat peculiar ideas on systematic arrangement, 

 all his writings deserve the best attention of ornithologists. 



Herr Conservator F. W. Meves, who a few years ago so 

 luckily stumbled on the true explanation of the bleating noise 

 made by the Common Snipe [Gallinago scolopacinus) in the 

 breeding season (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 199), has communicated two 

 papers to the Summary of the Transactions of the Royal Aca- 

 demy of Sciences at Stockholm for 1860 (Ofversigt af Kongl. 

 Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar, 17de argSngen). 



The first is a " Contribution to the Ornithology of Jemtland,*' 

 being an account of his travels in that province of Sweden, we 

 suppose in the year 1859. He mentions (p. 202) that, on the 

 12th of February, a Thrush was obtained at Haga, out of a flock 

 of Fieldfares and Redwings, which in colour and size is midway 

 between those two species, resembling the former above, and the 

 latter beneath. But in the last respect it also agrees with the 

 mysterious Turdus illuminus of Lobenstein (Naum.Vog. Deutschl. 



