298 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



2. French Publications. 



The numbers of the ' Revue et Magasin de Zoologie ' for this 

 year, received since our last issue, contain several articles relating 

 to Birds. M. C. F. Dubois writes 'Notes nido-oologiques,' on 

 Procnias carulea, Tardus rufivcntris, and Ampelis garrida. There 

 is more novelty in his account of the two first than in that of 

 the last, the nest of which, he says, was first discovered by " un 

 Anglais, du nom de John WoUey" ! In No. 4, M. Loche de- 

 scribes two neiv species of Larks, discovered by himself in the 

 Algerian Sahara. Calandrella rehoudia, the first of these, has 

 already been characterized by Mr. Tristram under M. Loche's 

 manuscript name (Ibis, vol.i. pp. 58 and 422). In the second 

 instance, M. Loche's name, Galerida randonii, must give way to 

 Mr. Tristram's Galerida mao'orhyyicha, which is the more fair, 

 as Mr. Tristram " first drew " Captain Loche's " attention to the 

 bird as new, and supplied him with specimens in 1857*." 



Dr. J. E. Cornay has published (Paris, Labd, 1860, 20 pp.) 

 an elaborate " Memoire sur les causes de la coloration des ocufs 

 des Oiseaux et des parties organiques vegetales et animales." 



M. O. Des Murs' general work on Oology* is now ready, and 

 we propose to give a notice of it in our next Number. 



3. German, Dutch, and Scandinavian Publications. 



We have received, through the polite attention of Herr Ober- 

 amtmann Ferdinand Heine, of Halberstadt, an early copy of the 

 second part of ' Museum Heineanum ' — a list of the valuable 

 and extensive ornithological collection possessed by this gentle- 

 man. It contains an account of the species of Insessorial birds 

 belonging to the division Clamaiores of Dr. Cabanis' arrange- 

 ment, and has been prepared by the last-named gentleman in 

 conjunction with Ferdinand Heine, the son of the proprietor of 

 the collection. The volume is one of great interest to all students 



* Tristram in ' Ibis,' vol.i. p. 427. 



t Traits general d'Oologie ornithologique, an point de vue de la Classi- 

 fication. Par O. Des Mnrs. Paris, 18()0. 1 vol. 8vo. 



