468 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



— a most useful little work. Its title-page, which we have 

 not given in full below, declares it to be the thesis, or act, 

 publicly read by its author before the University of Upsala 

 for a degree in philosophy. Herr von Friesen seems to us to 

 have discharged his task extremely well ; and his pamphlet is a 

 valuable index to Swedish ornithology. It is not possible for 

 such bibliographical lists to be at a first attempt quite compre- 

 hensive ; and here we have noticed, on but a cursory examination, 

 two omissions : — the first edition of Mr. Wheelwright's ' Com- 

 parative List of the Birds of Scandinavia and Great Britain,' 

 printed in 1852, — a curious circumstance, for this edition was 

 published with the author's name, while the second edition, 

 printed in 1859, which Herr von Friesen includes, was pub- 

 lished anonymously. The ' Travels of Acerbi ' also, full of errors 

 as they are, we should have thought merited mention ; but we 

 heartily congratulate the land of Linnseus on producing another 

 hopeful scion, and we feel sure we shall, before long, hear more 

 of her new Doctor of Philosophy. 



It is a real pleasure to us to notice so meritorious a treatise 

 as Sysselmand H. C. Mailer's " Bird-Fauna of the Faeroes"*, 

 in the fourth volume of * Scientific Communications,' just pub- 

 lished by the Natural-History Union of Copenhagen. Herr 

 Miiller, who enjoys equally the confidence of his fellow-country- 

 men (as shown by the fact of his representing them in the 

 Danish Parliament) and the esteem of all English visitors to his 

 native islands, has for many years past been an attentive observer 

 of their birds ; nay, more, he has almost lived among the latter. 

 The results of his experience, for which we have been loug 

 waiting, are now before us, and prove him to be a worthy suc- 

 cessor to those who have hitherto been the only elucidators of 

 Fseroese ornithology — Debes and Landt, Graba and Wolley. 



As the language of Denmark, notwithstanding the auspicious 

 alliance now happily existing between that nation and England, 

 is " not commonly understanded of the people " of this country, 



* FEcrbernes Fuglefauna nied Bemaerkninger oin Fuglefangsten, af 

 Sysselmand H. C. Miiller. Videnskab. Meddelels. for 1862, pp. 1-7H. 



