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Linnean system, (1) Mammalia, (2) Aves, (3) Reptilia, (4) In- 

 secta, with distinct Greek and Latin indices to each chapter, and 

 appendices on the fabulous creatures. Every student desirous 

 of ascertaining at once the knowledge possessed by the father of 

 natural history on each species which came under his observa* 

 tion can thus obtain it at a glance. We can only regret that 

 a manual so convenient for scholars in every country should not 

 have been rendered more generally available by publication in a 

 Latin rather than a Swedish dress. The identification of some 

 of the birds may be questioned, and must depend on a careful 

 comparison of the existing fauna of Greece and Asia Minor, 

 which Lindermeyer, our best authority, has not yet accom- 

 plished in a satisfactory manner. We should not be disposed, 

 ourselves, to transfer the Kvavo^ of Aristotle from Petrocosstj- 

 phus cyaneus to Tichodroma muraria, nor to assign the epithet 

 KopvSaXo'i to the more northerly Alauda arvensis, probably con- 

 founded with Galerida cristata {icopvhos:), in preference to the 

 conspicuous Melanocorypha calandra. 



4. Portuguese Publication. 

 For the first time since the institution of ' The Ibis,^ we have 

 to record the appearance of ornithological matter in one of the 

 languages of the Spanish Peninsula. Two papers, which claim 

 some notice in these pages, have lately been published in Lisbon. 

 Of one of them, an article by D. Jose de Souza " Upon the Birds 

 of Portugal'^*, we know little more than the title, but we have 

 taken steps to get further information concerning it. The second 

 publication is a pamphlet in Portuguese, upon the different modes 

 of collecting and preparing zoological specimens, by J, V. Bar- 

 bosa du Bocage, the Director of the Zoological Section of the 

 National Museum at Lisbon f. It commences with a sketch of 

 the origin and history of the National Museum of Portugal, and 

 of its spoliation by the French at the period of the French in- 

 vasion. This act was accomplished under the superintendence 



* In the ' Gazeta Medical de Lisboa,' for July 16, 1861. 



t ' Instruccoes praticas sobre o modo de colligir preparar e remetter pro- 

 ductos zoologicos para o Museu de Lisboa,' por J. V. Barbosa du Bocage. 

 Lisbon, 1862. 



