118 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



to the due performance of his task. They seem to manage 

 things better abroad. One popular work, by an ornithologist 

 of the very first rank, has been noticed over and over again in 

 this Journal. We have now to mention another and more am- 

 bitious attempt *, equally well carried on, by an equally able 

 naturalist, in the work whose title we transcribe below. Osten- 

 sibly a description of the vivarium of the flourishing Zoological 

 Society at Amsterdam, the ' Dierentuin ' contains a very good 

 general history of the class Aves, embellished with fair en- 

 gravings representing, if we are not mistaken, some species of 

 birds which have not hitherto been figured. A book-maker in 

 want of a subject might do much worse than translate this work, 

 and might make arrangements with the brothers Van Es for the 

 use of the woodcuts, so as to bring the whole out in England. 



4. Russian. 



We have at last been able to examine the work in which Herr 

 Radde has recorded the results of his travels in Siberia f, and 

 a very valuable volume it is. Here we must content ourselves 

 with the briefest notice of it, as to do justice to it would indeed 

 require a review of much greater length than we could aflPord 

 space for. The book is indispensable to all who busy themselves 

 with the ornithology of any parts of Europe and Asia ; and since 

 it has formed the subject of an article in a recent number of the 

 ' Natural History Review,^ in which article we trace the pen of 

 the greatest master of the subject of ornithological distribution, 

 we are the less concerned at not being able to say as much of 

 Herr Radde's labours as we should have wished. Two new 

 species are described in the work^ — (1) Sylvia [P hyllopneuste) 

 schwarzi, which, judging from the figure, appears to us to be 

 rather a Locust ella ; and (2) Anas {Fuligula) haeri, which seems 

 to be a hybrid — a possibility suggested indeed, though contro- 

 verted, by the author (p. 376). The plate represents this last 



* De Dierentuin, van het Koninklijk Zoologisch Genootschap Natura 

 Artis Magistra te Amsterdam. De Vogels. Gescherst door Prof. H. 

 ScHLEGEL. Amsterdam. 4to. 



t Reisen im Siiden von Ost-Sibirien in den Jaliren 1855-1859, Von 

 GusTAV Radde. Baud ii. Die Festlands-Ornis des siidostlicben Sibi- 

 riens. St. Petersburg : 1863. 4to. 



