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less indeed he only means that a very limited number of ex- 

 amples have been figured ; for Mr. Hewitson's three plates m 

 the different editions of his work are as near perfection as we 

 could wish. M. DesMurs states that he once had a third spe- 

 cimen also, which we presume from what he says was the origi- 

 nal of two of the three figures given by Thienemann. What has 

 subsequently become of it we are not informed. In the last 

 Number of the ' Revue ' we have received, that for March of the 

 present year, M. Marchand commences some observations on the 

 " Poussins des Oiseaux d'Europe converts de duvet a la sortie 

 de Tceuf.'^ They are illustrated by two plates, one representing 

 the chick of Recurvirostra avocetta, the other that of Phalaropus 

 hyperboreus. M. Marchand has reason to complain of his artist, 

 the latter plate being extremely unlike the original. But we 

 must record our satisfaction that the ranks of French ornitholo- 

 gists have been swelled by the addition of these two gentlemen 

 (MM. Vian and Marchand), and we beg leave to congratulate 

 them on their successful debut. They have brought into pro- 

 minence a branch of ornithology which has hitherto received 

 very little attention ; and we hope that they will continue their 

 labours in the same field. 



3. German Publications. 



The ' Monatsbericht ' of the Royal Academy of Sciences of 

 Berlin for March 1863 contains a notice by Dr. W. Peters of a 

 new form of Thrush, allied to Bessonornis, from the Mozambique, 

 for which the name Cichladusa is proposed. The typical species 

 is C. arquata, discovered by Dr. Peters near Sena, on the Zam- 

 besi. A second species of the same form in the Berlin Museum 

 is Heuglin's Crateropus guttatus, from Aniop in N.E. Africa 

 (8° N.L.). 



Since we last noticed our well-known and excellent contem- 

 porary, the * Journal fiir Ornithologie ' (Ibis, 1862, p. 381), we 

 have received the fourth and fifth parts of last yeai-'s volume, 

 and the first of that for the present year. The principal papers 

 contained in them seem to be Dr. Th.O. Heuglin's "Contributions 

 to the Ornithology of North-eastern Africa," Lieutenant Alexander 



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