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to the Prince's attacks ; but before this could be completed he 

 succumbed^ in 185G, to a fatal disease. The materials he had 

 collected for this purpose passed into the hands of his friend 

 J\I. Gerbe, a well-known French ornithologist, who has now at 

 length been able to publish them, not, however, in the form 

 originally intended, but in the far more preferable one of a 

 second edition, in which they are incorporated so as to make a 

 complete work *. 



M. Gerbe informs us that he has done his best to put this 

 edition au courant wuth science, and that he considers he has 

 done enough to justify him in placing his ovvn name on the 

 titlepage alongside of Dr. Degland's, on which last point we 

 quite agree with him. As to the first, we are sorry to say he 

 might have been expected to have done more. He shows, we 

 admit, a very good knowledge of French, and to a more limited 

 extent of German, ornithological literature since 1849; he is 

 also acquainted with the third edition of Yarrell's work, pub- 

 lished in 1856, and with such ornithological papers as have 

 appeared in the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History;' 

 but, as a rule, most other foreign journals are ignored or quoted 

 at second-hand. So, at least, we imagine; for we find ' Nau- 

 mannia' inserted in the list of works cited as dating from 1850, 

 and ' The Ibis ' from 1853 — pleasant, certainly, to be taken for 

 six years older than we really are ! However, we would readily 

 pardon this mistake as a mere clerical or typographical error, 

 did we not find the " holy fowl " accused of an astounding asser- 

 tion. Speaking of the mysterious advent to Europe of our old 

 friend Syrrhaptes paradoxus, M. Gerbe (vol. ii. p. 30) says: — 

 " Ainsi, d'apres le journal FIbis (1859, p. 471), uu individu, 

 faisant actuellement partie du Musee de Liverpool, a ete tue en 

 1859 dans le canton de Norfolk. Get individu, d'apres I'auteur 

 de I'article, appartenait pi'obablement a la bande qui avait ete 

 vue, le 9 juillet, a Tremadoc en Galles, et dont a parle M. T. G. 

 Moore dans le Zoologist (1859, p. 6725). Le meme journal 



* Oruitliologie Europeenne ou Catalogue descriptif, analytique et rai- 

 somie des Oiseaux observes en Europe. Deuxieme edition, entierement 

 refoudue par CD. Degland, Z. Gekbe. Paris: 1867- 2 vols. 8vo, 

 pp. 610 & 637. (Bailliere.) 



