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the last local Avi-fauna Avhich Dr. Hartlaub may treat in a 

 similar manner. 



A continuation of the third part of " Museum Heineanum/' 

 by Dr Cabanis and Herr F. Heine, jun., lately issued, for an 

 early copy of which we are much indebted to Herr Heine, 

 completes the enumeration of the Strisores in this fine collection, 

 and contains a portion of the Index of genera and species. 



The eighth ' Lieferung' of Dr. Reichenbach's ' Handbuch der 

 Speciellen Ornithologie ' completes his account of the Colum- 

 baria — a group composed of Columba, the family Cracidce (of 

 the order GallincE), and the Cariamas (belonging to the Grallce), 

 according to Dr. Heicheubach's fantastical arrangement. 



The plates issued herewith form a continuation of the series of 

 illustrations of the Trochilida, a portion of which was published 

 some time ago. The work, as far as it is a compilation, is some- 

 times useful, as one of reference, but we cannot conscientiously 

 say much in favour of such portions of it as are founded upon 

 original research. 



Besides the account of the new Cassowary, to w^hich we have 

 already alluded {antea, p. 312), the first number of the 'Journal 

 fiir Ornithologie ' for the present year (the last w^e have received) 

 contains an article on the breeding of the Nutcracker by Baron 

 Richard Konig-Warthausen, which will be interesting to many 

 of our readers. The author seems to think it a well-ascertained 

 fact that this bird breeds regularly in the Black Forest *, though 

 he has not yet been able to get authentic eggs from this locahty 

 in spite of many efforts. Baldamus states that it breeds in 

 Transylvania ; but the only egg brought back by him from his 

 expedition into that country proves, according to Baron Konig- 

 Warthausen, to be that of a Jay [Garrulus glandarius). Abbe 

 Caire, however, has obtained eggs of the Nutcracker in the 

 French Alps, " of undoubted authenticity," of which the Baron 

 has compared together six examples — four belonging to his own 



* See Landbek's Systeraatische Aufzahlung der Vogel Wiirtembnrg's, 

 p. 19. 



