Recent Ornithulogical Publications, i).3 



Newspaper) is " chiefly devoted to technical descriptions of foreign 

 birds new to science ;" but should they meet the eye of him who 

 thus veraciously responds to the question whether there be any 

 Magazine devoted to birds besides ' The Zoologist,' we trust that 

 they may induce him to reconsider his reply, and to admit that 

 we sometimes give up our ' technical descriptions ' to notice 

 even such unsatisfactory compilations as " The ' Zoologist ' List 

 of British Birds." 



In the 'Sporting Magazine' for July and September of last 

 year will be found some well-written notices of the haunts and 

 habits of some of the principal Game-birds of the Himalayas, by 

 * Mountaineer.' They relate to the " Horned Pheasant" [Trago- 

 pan melanocephala) , the " Monall " [Lophophorus impeyanus), the 

 "Cocklass" (Pucrusia macrolopha), "Cheer" {Catreus wallichii), 

 *' Kaleege " {Gallophasis albo-cristatus), and '^' Snow Pheasant" 

 ( Tetraogallus himalayensis) . 



2. French Publications 

 The number of the ' Revue et Magasin de Zoologie ' for Octo- 

 ber contains M. Pucheran's " Observations sur deux especes de 

 Passereaux originaires des A9ores," to which we have already 

 alluded * on their original publication in ' L'Institut.' They 

 are accompanied by a figure of the new Finch, Fringilla moreleti. 

 In the same number is the commencement of an Oological article 

 by M. Moquin-Tandon, entitled "Considerations sur les oeufs 

 des Oiseaux." 



The ' Annales des Sciences Naturelles ' for 1859 contain the 

 commencement of an important paper by M. Emile Blanchard, 

 on the Osteology of Birdsf, which merits not merely perusal, 

 but attentive study. The inti-oduction gives a general review of 

 the labours of previous writers on this subject. M. Blanchard 

 then goes on to speak of his own labours and of his * Organisa- 

 tion du regne animal,' in which he has divided the class Aves 

 into two orders — Tropidosternii and Hi>inah)sfe7-nii, corrcspond- 



• ' The Ibis,' vol. i. p. :S22. 



+ " Reoherchcs sur les oaiacteies ()ste()li)t;i»Hies dt.'s Oiseaux, appliquees 

 a la classification natmelle de ccs aiiiniaux." 



