238 Recent Ornithulugical Publications, 



for the first time figures in that character*. We do not know 

 that anything else in these two parts especially calls for remark ; 

 but Mr. Gould gives some interesting particulars of the " Chasse 

 aux Grives^' [Turdus musicus) as carried on in Belgium during 

 the autumnal migration, which will probably be new to most 

 English readers. 



The first volume of Mr. Stevenson^s ' Birds of Norfolk'f will, 

 we are sure, be welcomed by all our readers in this country 

 with great delight ; for we have no hesitation in saying that it is 

 the most meritorious book of its kind that has appeared for 

 many years. Unlike many other authors we could name, 

 Mr. Stevenson has neglected no sources of information bearing 

 on the subject ; and he has been singularly successful in obtain- 

 ing the cooperation of almost every person in the county at all 

 addicted to ornithology ; and such persons are, and probably 

 have long been, more abundant in Norfolk than elsewhere. It 

 is unnecessary, we think, to dwell at any length on this work ; 

 we will only remark that, though it possibly might have been 

 predicated, it has never before been demonstrated that the Ornis 

 of Norfolk is sensibly affected by its proximity, as compared with 

 other English counties, to Scandinavia. This is shown by 

 several indications. The Dipper and Bluethroat which appear 

 in Norfolk are the Cinclus melanog aster and the true Cyanecula 

 suecica of the north. So also AntJius rupestris, as distinguished 

 from A. ohscurus, has been found there, as before mentioned in 

 these pages (Ibis, 1865, p. 237); while the curious dark-visaged 

 race of Strix flammea, which appears to be peculiar to the 

 Cimbric Peninsula and some of the Danish Islands, and which, 

 wonderful to say, does not seem to have ever received a distinct 



* Of course the matter is of no real importance ; but we may remark that, 

 in the list appended to Mr. Newman's edition of Montagu's ' Ornitho- 

 logical Dictionary ' (p. 397), credit is given to the ' Zoologist ' for being 

 " the source whence the record " of this bird's occurrence was obtained, 

 though in the body of the work (p. 195) the Editor rightly attributes "the 

 first notice of this species as British " to this Journal. 



t The Birds of Norfolk, with Remarks on their Habits, Migration, and 

 Local Distribution : by Henry Stevenson, F.L.S. In two vols. Vol.1. 

 London: 1866. Demy 8vo, pp. 4-15. 



