i60 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



as H. Gatke supposes, it having already occurred more than 

 once in the British Isles *. At p. 424, a list of 23 rare species 

 obtained in Heligoland by the writer is given, the greater part 

 of which are new to the fauna of Europe. (5.) H. Aug. v. 

 Pelzeln's list of birds obtained in Madagascar by the late 

 Madame Ida Pfeiffer. 



The division containing the Birds of H. Schlegel and J. A. 

 Herklots' ' Fauna van Nederland ' t is now complete, and forms 

 a thick duodecimo volume of 700 pp., illustrated by pretty little 

 figures of all the birds of Holland. 



We have only lately met with a copy of Hofman's work on 

 the Northern Ural J, being the Report of the exploring expedition 

 sent out in 1847-50 by the Imperial Geographical Society to 

 that country. The second volume contains a list of birds col- 

 lected or observed, with remarks. Seventy species are enume- 

 rated, but nothing of particular interest is noted. 



IV. American Publications. 

 The tenth volume of the Pacific R. R. Reports § contains the 

 separate zoological Reports of the several expeditions under the 

 commands of Lieut. E. G. Beckwith, Lieut. A. W. Whipple, 

 Lieut. J. G. Parke, Lieut. R. S. Williamson, and Lieut. H. L. 

 Abbott. Amongst them will be found the field-notes of the 

 different observers upon the birds collected during their ex- 

 plorations, illustrated with plates of the species not previously 

 figured. The several articles are as follows : — {1 .) Upon the 

 birds collected on the survey of the 38th, 39th, and 41st 

 parallels, by Prof. Baird : (2.) Upon the birds collected on the 

 route of the 38th parallel, by Dr. C. B. R. Kenuerly : (3). Upon 



* Yarrell's Brit. B. ed. 3, and Suppl. to ed. 2. 



t Fauna van Nederland door H. Schlegel en J. A. Herklots. Leyden, 

 1851-59. 



X Das nordliche Ural und das Kusten-gebirge Paecboi, &c. St. Peters- 

 burg, 1856, 2 vols. 4to. 



§ Rejiorts of Explorations and Surveys to ascertain the most practicable 

 and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pax'ific 

 Ocean. Vol. x. Washington, 185!). 



