Recent Ornithological Publications. 305 



Emile Parzudaki^s ' Catalogue des Trochilides ' is another printed 

 list of the same character, which those ornithologists who are 

 studying the group of Humming-birds would do well to apply 

 for. M. Parzudaki has a very large series of skins of this group 

 of birds on sale. 



3. Russian and Scandinavian Publications. 



Herr Magnus von Wright's "■ Birds of Finland* " of which 

 the title was mentioned in our January Number ('Ibis/ 1861, 

 p. Ill), forms the fifth part of the 'Bidrag till Finlands Na- 

 turkannedom, Etnografi och Statistik,' issued by the Finnisli 

 Scientific Society, and, as far as it goes, — for the part published 

 only comprehends the Land-Birds, — will be found a very useful 

 account of the ornithology of that country. As might be ex- 

 pected, the character of the Avifauna of each side of the Baltic 

 is very much the same, and we think the author has done well 

 in making such constant reference to Nilsson's well-known 

 ' Skandinavisk Fauna.' But, according to Herr von Wright, 

 thirty-two species occur in Sweden or Norway which have not 

 been met with in Finland, though further observation will no 

 doubt tend to reduce this inequality, since several birds of 

 Asiatic origin have never been obtained in the latter country, 

 though they must probably have passed through it to reach the 

 other shore of the Gulf of Bothnia. Among these we may 

 instance the two species of Oreocincla, 0. aurea and O. heinei, 

 Bp. (the latter erroneously called by our author Turdus lumdatus), 

 Parus cyamis, Emberiza aureola and Turtur rupicola (Pall.), and 

 Columba gelastes, Temm., the last of which may perhaps be ex- 

 pected some day in England. Of birds of southern or western 

 range which do not seem to reach Finland, the more noticeable 

 are Faico milvus, F. rufus, Sti-ix noctua, S. aluco, and S. flammea, 

 Sylvia luscinia, S. tithys, S. locustella, and S. arundinacea, Mota- 

 cilla boarula, Saxicola rubicola, Regulus ignicapillus, Emberiza 

 miliaria, Picus viridis and P. medius, Alcedo ispida, Merops 

 apiaster, and Columba livia. 



* Finlauds Foglar, hufvudsakligen till deres diagter, bcskiifna af 

 Magnus voii Wright. Forra Afdelningen. Helsingfors--, Finnska Littera- 

 tui-siillskapets Tryckeri, 1859. 8vo, pp. 315. 



