Recent Ornithological Publications. Ill 



10. S. Nilsson. Skandinavisk Fauna, Foglarna, 1858. 



11. M. V. Wright. Finlands Foglar. Helsingfors, 1859 

 [Just published] . 



Carpodacus erythrinus, the younger von Nordmann tells us, is 

 now common in Southern Finland, although, as his father states, 

 that was not the case thirty years ago. It nests every year in 

 the Botanical Gardens (at Helsingfors), in the tops of the Maple 

 and the Carangana sibirica. The nest consists of thin twigs 

 loosely put together. The eggs are white, with a few blackish- 

 red spots at the large end. The bird arrives in Helsingfors in 

 the middle of May, and in 1857 had fledged young on the 25th 

 of June. After having once heard the loud flute-like voice of 

 this bird, there will be no difficulty in recognizing it a second 

 time, as it conceals itself in the tree-tops. It has a finch-like 

 call-cry resembling that of Fringilla chloris. 



The Anser albifrons, said (p. 43) to breed in Lapland, must be 

 intended for Anser erythropus sive minutus^. 



Of the second part of the Report of the Russian exploring 

 expedition in Amoorland, containing the Birds f, we have lately 

 seen copies, and we hope to be able to give a notice of this im- 

 portant work at some length in our next Number. 



4. American Publications. 



M. Le Moine's little book J "on the Ornithology of Canada" 

 appears to have been written with the laudable wish to stimulate 

 his fellow-countrymen to show more energy in the cause of 

 Natural History, in which, as in material prosperity, their repub- 

 lican neighbours seem to have left them far behind. 



* See 'Ibis,' 1860, p. 404. 



t Reisen imd Forschungen im Amurlande in den Jahren 1851-56, im 

 Auftrage der Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersbiirg ; 

 ausgefiihrt und in Verbindung mit mehreren Gelehrten herausgegeben von 

 Dr. Leojjold von Schrenck. Band i. Zweite Lieferung, Vogel des Amur- 

 landes. Mit 7 colorirten Tafeln. St. Petersburg, 1860. 



X Ornithologie du Canada. Quelqiies groupes d'apres la nomenclature 

 du Smithsonian Institution de Washington. Par J. M. Lemoine. Quebec, 

 1860, I part, 96 pp., 12mo. 



