Recent Ornithological Publications. 295 



as foster-mother to the infant Cuckoos. We would observe, in 

 reference to the notice of Ainpelis ffannilus, that Dr.E. Nylander did 

 not himself find a nest of that bird on the Island of Ajos, at the 

 head of the Gulf of Bothnia, in 1857. The manner in which he 

 became possessed of the specimens alluded to has been already 

 related in our pages (* Ibis/ 1861, p. 100). 



The folio plates of Dr. Anton Fritsch's work* on the Birds 

 of Europe have now reached their eighth part, and the accom- 

 panying letter-press its third part. The figures given are re- 

 duced in size to one-third of the natural dimensions of the birds. 

 They are printed in colours, and give us very favourable ideas of 

 what may be eventually accomplished by this process. Indeed, 

 the representations of some of the larger birds (we would specify 

 those of the game-birds, pis. 29, 30, 31) ai'e very good, and quite 

 sufficiently accurate for a popular work of the kind. We sus- 

 pect the so-called Garrulus krynickii (pi. 27. fig. 11) is nothing 

 more than the Algerian Garrulus cervicalis, which the Parisian 

 dealers are so fond of palming off as veritable European speci- 

 mens of the second European species of Jay. The Tetraogallus 

 figured is certainly the common Indian T, himalayensis, and not 

 the rarer T. caucasicus, which alone of the group has some claim 

 to a place in the Fauna of Europe. We are glad, however, to see 

 the European Blue-pie rightly distinguished as Cyanopica cooki, 

 instead of being left confounded with the Siberian C. cyanea. 



In the appendix to the 'Keise nach Island f/ just published, 

 by Herr William Preyer and Dr. Ferdinand Zirkel, will be found 

 a list of the birds of that island, compiled by the first-named of 

 these gentlemen. As a contribution to the ornithology of one 

 of the stepping-stones between the Old and New World, it is of 

 course acceptable ; but we cannot say that much discrimination 



• Naturgeschichte der Vogel Europa's von Med. Dr. Anton Fritschj 

 Gustos der Zoologischen Abtheilung am Museum des Konigreichs Bohmen. 

 Prag, 1859-62. 



t Reise nach Island in Sommer 1860. Mit wissenschaftlichen Anhangen. 

 Von William Preyer uud Dr. Ferdinand Zirkel. Leipzig, 1862, 1 vol. 8vo, 

 pp. 500. 



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