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The eleventh volume of the ' Meraoires de la Societe Lin- 

 neenne de Normandie' (1859) contains a note by M. Eudes- 

 Deslongchamps on the singular Pigeon of the Marquesas Islands, 

 described by the late Prince Charles Bonaparte as Serresius ga- 

 leatus (Compt. Rend. xli. p. 6). The peculiarities of the skeleton 

 are chiefly spoken of. 



3. German, Dutch, and Scandinavian Works. 

 Dr. Hartlaub's " Bericht xiber die Leistungen in der Natur- 

 geschichte der Vogel wahrend des Jahres 1858" (Report on the 

 Progress of Ornithology during the year 1858) will be read with 

 pleasure by every one who takes an interest in this branch of 

 Zoology. It appears in the well-known German Natural History 

 Magazine called ' Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte,' now 

 edited by Professor Troschel. 



We have not yet met with Grassner's ' Die Vogel Deutschlands 

 und die Eier.' It appears to be a new and revised edition of 

 Neumann and Buhle^s ' Eier der Vogel Deutschlands.' Two parts 

 were published at Halle in 1859. 



We have received the fifth part of Professor Badeker's ' Eier 

 der Europaischer Vogel,' of which work we have already given a 

 lengthened notice (Ibis, 1859, p. 400). 



A new number of the ' Contributions to Zoology' of the Royal 

 Zoological Society of Amsterdam * contains two Ornithological 

 papers by Professor Schlegel of Leyden, which, it is perhaps 

 almost unnecessary to say, are, like all the results of his in- 

 vestigations in Natural History, of great value. The first is 

 a " Notice sur le genre Corvus," of which Prof. Schlegel is 

 acquainted with 33 species, as follows : — 



I. Rostro maxime elevato, Corvultures. 

 1. crassirostris, ex Ahyssimsi. \ 2. cq/"er, ex Afr. Merid. 



* Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde uitgegeven door het Koningligk Zoologisch 

 Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra, te Amsterdam. 



