324 Recent Ornitliuluijical Publications. 



clades, which we alluded to {antea, p. 107) as pubhshed in ' Nau- 

 mannia' for 1858, in the first part of an interesting brochure, 

 entitled "Fauna der Cycladen*." In the second part of this 

 book we are promised a figure of the new Falcon {Falco dichrom), 

 discovered by the author in these islands. 



Professor Carl J. Sundevall, of Stockholm, has courteously 

 forwarded to us the first five numbers of his 'Svenska Foglarnaf-' 

 We beg to call the attention of those who are interested in 

 European Ornithology to this work, the most recent authority 

 on the birds of Scandinavia. Reduced figures, nicely drawn, 

 and coloured sufficiently accurately for identification, are given 

 of all the species. 



Px'ofessor Sundevall has also sent us separate copies of a 

 valuable paper which he has lately contributed to the ' Transac- 

 tions ' of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Stockholm, entitled 

 " Kritisk Framstallning af Fogelarterna uti aldre ornithologiska 

 arbetenj." It consists of critical remarks on two " classical " 

 works on Ornithology, Sparman's ' Museum Carlsonianum,' 

 and Le Vaillant's ^Oiseaux d'Afrique.' These are of great 

 value, the notes on the former being often founded on examina- 

 tion of the type-specimens now in the Museum of Stockholm. 

 Being written in Latin, they are rendered more generally 

 accessible. Professor SundevalFs great knowledge of South 

 African Ornithology renders his remarks on Le Vaillant of the 

 highest interest. He states bi'oadly (what we have long con- 

 sidered, and is now well known, to be the case), that Le Vaillant 

 has described and figured as South African many birds \vhich 

 really belong to very different countries, and never occur there at 

 all; and, not only this, but has entered into long details re- 

 specting their habits and manners, as observed by himself. Out 

 of the 284 species contained in Le Vaillant's great work. 

 Prof. SundevalPs summary gives 134 only as well-determined 

 South African, 9 imperfectly determined, and 1 doubtful species. 

 No less than 60 are placed in the category of " Aves pseudu- 



* Leipzig, 1858, Voigt and Giinther, 116 pp., sewn, 

 t Svenska Foglarna, nied text af Professor Carl J. Sundevall : teeknade 

 och lithographierade af Peter Akerlund. Stockholm, 1856 — 1858. 

 X Kon. A^et. Akad. Ilaudl., Band ii. No. 3 (1857). 



