306 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



The only species included by our author, which he says has 

 not been noticed either in Sweden or Norway, is Falco ater ; and 

 this can scarcely be said to be a Finnish bird, though it occurs 

 in tolerable plenty from the neighbourhood of Lake Onega 

 northwards to Archangel. 



We notice with pleasure (page 97 et seq.) the acknowledg- 

 ment willingly rendered to the services of our countrymen, the 

 late Mr. Wolley, and Mr. H. Dresser (the latter in company with 

 two Finnish gentlemen), in discovering the nidification of the 

 Waxwing {Ampelis garndus, L.), of which the particulars have 

 been given at length in this Journal. 



Herr von Wright thinks himself justified in considering the 

 Titmouse of Scandinavia, usually known as Parus sibiricus, di- 

 stinct from the Siberian bird to which that name was applied 

 by Gmelin, and accordingly continues to the former (the Euro- 

 pean one) Lundahl's appellation of P. lapponicus^. 



The work is written in Swedish, which is an additional re- 

 commendation, as had it been in the Finnish language it must 

 have remained almost a sealed book to naturalists, few of 

 whom we should imagine have time to spend in mastering the 

 grammar of a tongue in which the nouns have thirteen cases ! 



The volume of Scientific Communications published by the 

 Natural- History Union of Copenhagen, for the past yearf, con- 

 tains (page 306) a paper by Professor J. Reinhardt on the 

 example of Syrrhaptes paradoxus which was shot in Jutland, 

 as has before been mentioned in our pages (' Ibis,^ 1860, p. 109, 

 7iote), and also (page 335) a notice of some recent additions to 

 the ornithology of Greenland, all of which, however, are included 

 in the valuable list of the birds of that country, with which that 

 learned naturalist has enriched our present volume. 



* Sallsk. pro F. et Fl. Fenn. F5ihandl. 1848, p. 1. 



t Videnskabelige Meddelelser fia dea naturhistoriske Forening i Kjo- 

 benhavn, for Aaret 1860. Udgivne af Selskabets Bestyrelse. Andet Aarties 

 anden Aargang. Kjobenlia\Ti, 1861. 



