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were part of the old "Atlantic" continent, as first imaginedj 

 we believe, by the late Professor Edward Forbes*. 



But the greater the interest of these papers by Dr. Pucheran, 

 the more the pity that they should appear only in an ephemeral 

 publication, such as this newspaper. It is true, that M. Lesson 

 was formerly in the habit of describing his supposed new spe- 

 cies of birds in the ' Echo du Monde Savant,' and that of late 

 years, we believe, some American writers have published cha- 

 racters of new species of fishes in the ' San Francisco Herald •' 

 but such examples are hardly worthy of imitation, especially by 

 a writer who has all the best scientific journals in Europe open 

 to him. 



3. German and Scandinavian Publications. 



We regret not to have yet been able to see a copy of the first 

 part of Dr, Cabanis' ' Journal ' for this year. We are, however, 

 quite aware that it is published, since Dr. Hartlaub has for- 

 warded to us a separate copy of his important article " Mo- 

 nographische Uebersicht der Glanzstaare {Lamprotornithina;) 

 Africa's," with which the number commences. It is almost 

 superfluous to say that this group of birds is here worked out 

 in the usual masterly manner in which Dr. Hartlaub always 

 treats subjects appertaining to his favourite study, and which 

 has caused him to take rank, in the words of a recent writer f, 

 as " the most accomplished living ornithologist of Europe." 

 Dr. Hartlaub divides the African Lamprotornithince as follows : — 



b. MoRioNES (9 species). 



5. Pilorhinus, contaiuing 1 species. 



6. Amydrus „ 5 „ 



7. Oligomydrus „ 1 „ 



8. Onychognatkus 2 ,, 



a. AuGORNiTHES (25 species). 



1 . Lamprotornis, containing 5 species. 



2. Lamprocolius „ 15 „ 



3. Notauges ,, 4 „ 



4. PhoUdauges „ 1 „ 



Looking at their geographical arrangement, 11 species are 

 exclusively western, 7 southern, 1 eastern, and 8 north-eastern ; 

 4 are common to north-eastern and western Africa, and 2 are of 

 wide distribution. 



Dr. Erhard has reprinted his Notes on the Birds of the Cy- 



* Confer Tristram in " The Ibis," antea, p. 155. 

 t Cassin, in Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1859, p. 32. 



