410 Ilerr Badeker's and Dr. Brewer's Oolugical Works. 



American Waders, such as the Esquimaux Curlew, the Brown 

 Snipe, the Buff-breasted, Schinz's and the Pectoral Sandpipers. 

 Eggs of the first of these are said already to have been taken in 

 Labrador, though we do not learn on what authority, and of the 

 third and last we believe specimens exist even now in Trans- 

 Atlantic cabinets, obtained by Professor Kumlein and Dr. Heer- 

 mann. The Little Crake may be expected from Southern 

 Europe, or, through some follower of Mr. Tristram and his friends, 

 from Algeria. The Red-breasted Goose has already been dis- 

 covered breeding in Siberia by Dr. Middendorff, and he figures 

 one of its eggs, while the Spur- winged must be sought for in 

 Africa. The incunabula of Bewick's Swan still form a puzzle. 

 We do not credit the statement, though the assertors and re- 

 peaters of it are no mean authorities, that it nests in Iceland ; but 

 believe it to be a more eastern species, and, if any part of Europe 

 furnishes it with breeding quarters, we would perhaps indicate 

 the Samoied country drained by the Petchora as the favoured 

 spot, on the dreary coasts of which also, or in Nova Zembla, 

 Steller's (miscalled the ^' Western") Duck, which was found by 

 Dr. Middendorff breeding in Eastern Siberia, may rear its young 

 in peace. For the American Wigeon and Buffel-headed Duck 

 the Hudson's Bay Territory is our land of promise, while we fear 

 that for the different species of Gulls — except indeed the Bona- 

 partian, which possibly has not a Polar range, and may be found 

 breeding even as far south as the Saskatchewan or Athabaska 

 valleys — we must await the Saturnia regna, and the renewed 

 Arctic expeditions which we have above predicted. Hopes re- 

 specting the Ponierine Skua from Lapland, Dr. Middendorff 

 having already obtained its eggs in Siberia, have been held out 

 to us by Mr. Wolley, while, as a contrast to nearly all the locali- 

 ties we have enumerated, those Islands of the Blest, the remains 

 of the old Atlantic Continent and the " Cays " of the West 

 Indian Archipelago may be the scene of a " crowning victory " 

 over the last in our list — the Petrels — and finally reward the 

 Oologists' " youth of labour with an age of ease." 



To Doctor Brewer's work we cannot devote the space which 

 the care bestowed upon it should deserve at our hands. It 

 really is, what it professes to be, "designed to describe and 



