210 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



tail-feathers differently marked ; the latter like H. torquata, but 

 larger and paler in colour. 



3. Dutch. 

 Works on the ornithology of particular districts of Europe, 

 even those that are most frequented by the " British tourist," 

 are generally so little known in this country that we are glad to 

 have the opportunity of directing the attention of our readers 

 to the tirst part of a Fauna of Luxembourg, which has lately 

 appeared from the pen of M. Alphonse de la Fontaine^, and 

 contains an account of the birds found in that locality as far, 

 according to the author's arrangement, as the end of the order 

 " Passereaux." The district is that " qui forme I'ancien de- 

 partement des Forets et qui constitue une bonne partie des 

 departements limitrophes de la Moselle, de la Meuse, des 

 Ardennes, de Sambre et Meuse, de I'Ourthe et de la Sarre, et 

 qui actuellement est place sous Tautorite de quatre gouverne- 

 ments differents, ceux de France, de Belgique, de Prusse et du 

 Grand-Duche proprement dit." For the settlement of doubtful 

 points the author says he has had recourse to M. de Selys- 

 Longchamps, and the result is a work which, without calling 

 for any [)articular remark from us, shows that in future the 

 celebrated name of La Fontaine need not be exclusively associ- 

 ated with " Fables." 



We have to notice — and we need not say with pleasure — two 

 more papers of the indefatigable Professor Schlegel, contributed 

 by him to the ' Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Pierkunde ' for 

 the past year. 



The first is a "• Description d'un oiseau remarquable et in- 

 connu des Naturalistes," which the author names Charitornis 

 albertince. At first sight this curious form would seem to offer 

 some affinity with Streptocitta albicollis, which has usually been 

 ranked among the Corvidce; but a further examination shows 



* Fairae du Pays de Luxembom-g, ou Manuel de Zoologie conteuant la 

 description des Animaux Vertebres observes dans le Pays de Luxem- 

 bourg. Par Alphonse de la Fontaine. Luxembourg : 1865 (London, 

 Williams and Norgate). Svo, pp. 152. 



