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Recent Ornithological Publications. 



' Travels.' We have also many valuable notes on distribution, 

 habits, &c., both appended to the account of each species and 

 diffused throughout the narrative. The ornithology of La Plata 

 is, naturally enough, very peculiar. The forms are nearly entirely 

 such as are fitted to inhabit the vast pampas of which the greater 

 portion of the republic consists, and with which the life-like 

 sketches of Head and Darwin have made English readers long 



We see by this summary how far inferior in richness of species 

 is La Plata to the southern provinces of Brazil, where within a 

 much smaller area Dr. Burmeister met with 810 species of birds. 

 The results of three years' travels in La Plata have not furnished 

 means of ascertaining the existence of even one-third of this 

 number. 



The most remarkable discovery of Dr. Burmeister in the class 

 of birds during his three years' expedition in La Plata was cer- 

 tainly the new Cariama, which Dr. Hartlaub has named, after 

 its discoverer, Dicholophus burmeisteri. Other fine novelties are 

 Geobamon rufpennis and Saltatricula multicolor, both note- 

 worthy additions to the class of birds. 



4. Dutch Publications. 



The second livraison of the * Revue Methodique et Critique ' 

 of the collections of the Dutch National Museum of Natural 

 History at Leyden contains the completion of the catalogue of 



