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of exotic Ornitliology, and has been long anxiously expected by 

 us. We do not agree with the authors in the principles of 

 zoological nomenclature which they have adopted, either as 

 regards the rejection of names not classically derived, or the 

 excessive multiplication of generic divisions. But we do not com- 

 plain of their employment of these principles ; for, the fact is, 

 there is a great deal to be said on both sides of these import- 

 ant questions. With the general arrangement of the families 

 and genera, as set forth in this work, we have the satisfaction 

 of expressing our very decided a])proval. Several years^ study 

 of the difficult and complicated forms of the birds belong- 

 ing to the families Formicariida, Pteroptoclndce, Anabatidce, 

 Tyi-annidce, and Cutingidce, has convinced us that these groups 

 cannot be sundered in any natural system, and that they must 

 be placed together in a series apart from the more typical 

 Insessores. We notice also with pleasure that accurate Latin 

 diagnoses have been attached to the new species described in this 

 part of the list, and that great pains have been taken with the 

 synonymy. The families adopted by the authors for the arrange- 

 ment of the Clamatores are as follows : — 



Of Cabanis' ' Journal fiir Ornithologie ' (with which ' Nau- 

 mannia' has become incorporated from the beginning of the 

 present year — the new series being under the joint editorship of 

 Dr. J. Cabanis and Dr. E. Baldamus), we have received parts iv. 

 and v. for last year. There ai'e several articles in these numbers 

 that will well repay perusal, such as the continuation of Dr. 

 H. Bernstein's notes upon the nidification of Javan birds, Dr. J. 

 Gundlach's ornithological letters from Cuba, and Von Gonzen- 

 bach's "excursions " from Smyrna to the breeding-places of the 

 Larida, &c., besides the more strictly scientific papers of Dr. 



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