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Our friend Mr. D. G. Elliot has issued the first part of his 

 ' Birds of North America ^*, which is to contain life-sized figures 

 of all the species not included in Audubon's great work. This 

 contains beautifvilly coloured representations, with accompanying 

 letterpress, of Haliaetus albicilla, Campylorhijnchus affinis, Co- 

 lymbus adamsi, Cardinalis iyneus, and Ombi'ia psittacula. The 

 first of these species, it may be remarked, is perhaps not strictly 

 American {cf. V.Z. S. 1865, p. 731); but as Mr. Elliot intends 

 to annex Greenland for the purposes of his work, he is of course 

 quite justified in including it. 



Since we last noticed Professor Baird's ' Review of American 

 Birds' (Ibis, 1865, p. 534), we have received eight sheets and a 

 quarter more of it, all issued in May and June of the present 

 year. As we before stated, we do not profess to criticize this 

 work at present. The author has introduced the very praise- 

 worthy plan of figuring in outline the most characteristic fea- 

 tures of very many of the nearly allied species — a plan which 

 cannot fail to be of the utmost utility in such difficult groups as 

 the Vireonidae for example. Indeed without these figures it 

 would be almost hopeless to attempt to make out the numerous 

 species which have such a close resemblance to one another. We 

 trust that sufficient sheets to make a volume will soon appear, 

 so that it may be generally accessible to the public, which we 

 have been told is not the case at present. 



Mr. Cassin has issued a second number of his 'Fasti Orni- 

 thologiae' (Proc, Acad. N. S. Philadelphia, March 1866), which, 

 we are glad to say, is not so revolutionary in its results as 

 the first [cf. Ibis, 1865, p. 106), for it would seem that the 

 name of only one species is affected by it. ' Der Naturforscher,' 

 a magazine published at Halle from 1774 to 1804, and edited 

 by Schreber and Walch, is the subject of this paper. We trust 

 that the next treasure disinterred by our excellent friend may be 

 of the same harmless character. 



* The Birds of North America. By D. G. Elliot, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 

 Part I. New York : pubhshed by the author, 2"] West Thirty-third Street, 

 18()6. Imp. foho. 



