204 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



may be the means of gratifying Dr. Baldamus' not unnatural 

 wish, that two of our most active recent workers in this depart- 

 ment will make public their discoveries more fully and more 

 widely than can be done by putting them into auction-cata- 

 logues. The third part is occupied with an account of the 

 meeting of the German Ornithological Society at Harzburg, on 

 the 27th of June last and following days. Twenty-eight mem- 

 bers were present. The account of the proceedings, and the 

 papers presented to the meeting, which follow, will be read with 

 interest by all lovers of ornithology. We muat call particular 

 attention to Dr. Blasius^ remarks on " doubtful species of the 

 European Bird-fauna." The next meeting of the Society com- 

 mences on the Wednesday in Whitsuntide week (June loth) of 

 the present year, at Stuttgardt. 



The number of Wiegmann's ' Archiv ' containing Dr. Ilart- 

 laub's " Bericht iiber die Leistungen in der Naturgeschichte der 

 Vogel wahrend des Jahres 1857" reached tiiis country soon 

 after the publication of the first Number of 'The Ibis.' It must 

 be studied by every one who wishes to know what is going on in 

 Ornithology. At p. 305 of the first volume of the same Jour- 

 nal for 1858 will be found the characters of a new Cormorant 

 [Graculus eleyans) in an article by Dr. R. A. Philippi, entitled 

 " Beschreibung neuer Wirbelthiere aus Chili." 



By Dr. Hartlaub's 'Bericht' our attention has been called to 

 Dr. L. Buvry's " Mittheilungen aus Algerien," published in the 

 * Zeitschrift fur allgemeine Erdkunde' for 1857. The author 

 gives a general review of the "Ornis" of this region, which 

 should be consulted by those who are now occupying them- 

 selves with Algerian ornithology. His promised book, ' Die 

 Vogel Algeriens in kritischer Uebersicht,' has not yet, we believe, 

 made its appearance. 



At a subsequent page of the same Journal (p. 504) will be 

 found some account of the proceedings of H. Radde, the Natu- 

 ralist attached to the East- Siberian expedition of the Russian 

 Geographical Society. In 1855 he was on the shores of Lake 

 Baikal. In the spring of 1856 he reached the outposts of 

 Kulusutajewsk, and had collected 100 birds at the end of the 

 mouth, among which he mentions Syrrhaptes paradoxus. In 



