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work, which is absolutely indispensable to the ornithologist, 

 and promises to make very great additions to our knowledge of 

 the groups of which it treats. 



4. Russian Publications. 



The lately issued Bulletins of the Imperial Academy of Sciences 

 of St. Petersburg contain some communications by Dr. L. von 

 Schrenck on the most recent discoveries of the well-known 

 botanical traveller, Maximovicz, in Eastern Asia. The first of 

 these relates to Herr Maximovicz's collections and observa- 

 tions made whilst on the river Ussuri, in Southern Amoor- 

 land*. 



Skins of Tetrao tetrix, from the Ussuri, show no appreciable 

 difference from European examples. A new species to the 

 Fauna of Amoorland has been obtained in the beautiful Cedar- 

 birdj Bombycilla phoenicoptera, hitherto only known as coming 

 from Japan. A single female specimen of this bird, shot by 

 Herr Maximo vicz on the Ussuri, in the month of April, agrees 

 well with Japanese examples. Besides these species specially 

 adverted to. Dr. L. von Schrenck gives a list of between thirty 

 and forty other birds, collected by Herr Maximovicz at the 

 Russian post, Bussewa, on the Ussuri (45|^° N. L.), where that 

 energetic collector passed the spring of 1860. 



The following numbers of the same publication contain a long 

 and interesting letter f from Herr Maximovicz to Dr. von 

 Schrenck, giving his personal narrative of adventures on the 

 Ssungari, or Ussuri, with a few zoological and botanical notices 

 interspersed. 



5. American Publications. 



Mr. Coues continues his labours on American ornithology in 

 the ' Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia/ The groups now selected are worked out in the same 



* Zoologische Nachrichten vom Ussuri und von der Siidkiiste der 

 Mandshurei, nach Sammlungen und bi'ieflichen Mittheilungen des Herru 

 Maximovicz, zusammengestellt von Dr. Leop. v. Schrenck. Bull. Ac. Imp. 

 Sc. St. Petersbourg, iv. p. 180. 



t Nachrichten vom Ssungari-Fluss, &c. Bull. Ac. Imp. Sc. St. Peters- 

 bourg, iv. p. 224. 



