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tains of the interior of the island, the highest of which attains 

 an elevation of 2788 feet." 



Mr. Eyton has issued the fourth and fifth numbers of his 

 ' Osteologia Aviuni.^ 



In Mr. Bree's ' Birds of Europe/ which has now reached its 

 twenty-seventh number, will be found Mr. A. Newton^s account 

 of the breeding of the Red-throated Pipit {Anthus cervinus, Pal- 

 las =^. rufogularis, Brehm). This little-known bird was met 

 with by him in June 1855, when in company with Messrs. J. 

 Wolley and W. H. Simpson, in a restricted locality in Eastern 

 Finmark, between Wadso and Nyborg, and several well-identi- 

 fied nests were procured. There can be no doubt of the validity 

 of this species, which, indeed, has been already vindicated by 

 Herr Pastor W. Passler, in a recent number of Cabanis' Journal 

 (1859, Heft vi.). 



In the " Outlines of the Natural History of the Isle of Wight, 

 by A.G.More,F.L.S.," appended to Mr. Venables's recently pub- 

 lished Guide-book to that island*, we are presented with a good 

 account of its ornithology. Though the arrangement of the 

 species into 'Residents,' 'Summer Visitors,^ &c. is, in our opinion, 

 objectionable, as rendering it difficult for tourists, or even gene- 

 ral students, to discover, without much loss of time, in which 

 of the five groups any particular species is to be found, yet, with 

 this exception, jMr. More's treatment of the subject is very com- 

 mendable, and affords a favourable contrast to the carelessness 

 exhibited in the Natural-History chapters in most Handbooks. 

 Without counting a few undoubted foreigners, which are said to 

 have occurred, 220 birds are enumerated as having been cap- 

 tured in the island; but of these we think that the appearance of 

 at least four, Aquila chrysaetos, Parus cristatus, Picus martins, 

 and Fratercula glacialis (this last the only supposed instance of 

 its occurrence in the British Isles), rests on authority hardly 

 sufficient. " It is remarkable," says Mr. More, " that the Nut- 



* ' A New Guide to the Isle of Wight, &c., by the Rev. E. Venables, 

 M.A.' London (Stanford). 1860. 



