112 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



have made their appearance in this country, it is astonishing 

 that an English translator of his book* should declare that tne 

 island and its inhabitants " are comparatively but little known 

 to us." However, there would be no need to call the attention 

 of the readers of ' The Ibis ' to this publication were it not for 

 the fact that Mr. Barnai'd has thought fit to add to his trans- 

 lation, by way of 'Appendix/ a "List of the Animals, Birds, 

 Fishes, Molluscs, etc., found in Iceland ; extracted from ' The 

 Voyage en Islande, par M. Gaimard.' " We generally know 

 what we may expect when we find ''Birds, Fishes, Molluscs, 

 etc." treated as if they were not " animals ;" and on the present 

 occasion we have not been disappointed. The list Mr. Barnard 

 prints is offered to his readers at third hand. He transcribes it 

 (with a few errors and omissions) from the volume of M. Gai- 

 mard^s series which is devoted to " Zoologie et Medecine " 

 (pp. 161-166), and written by M.Eugene Robert, who gives it 

 as an "extraite de Gliemann" ; and sure enough the original is 

 to be found in Gliemann's work (pp. 150-1/0), which is nearly 

 fifty years oldf. The absurdity of such a proceeding is mani- 

 fest, and any further criticism quite unnecessary. Prof. PaijkuU, 

 being a man of science, feared to tread but on his own path ; 

 his translator rushes in, and most successfully displays his 



ignorance of almost every branch of zoology. 



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2. Dutch. 



The supposition hazarded in our last number (Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 476), that the ornithological portion of the work of Messrs. 

 Schlegel and Pollen had come to an end, was premature, a Fourth 

 and concluding LivraisonX having lately made its appearance. 

 This contains, besides a few pages wanted to complete the ac- 



* A Summer in Iceland. By C. W. Paijkull, Professor of Geology 

 at the University of Upsala. Ti'anslated by Rev. M. R. Barnard, B.A. 

 &c. London : 1868. 8vo, pp. 364. 



t Geographische Beschreibung von Island, von Theodor Gliemann. 

 Altona: 1824. 8vo, pp.232. 



X Recberches sur la Faune de Madagascar et de ses D^pendances, &c. 

 2"^ Partie. Mammiferes et Oiseaux, par 11. Schlegel et Fran^'ois 

 P. L. Pollen. Levde : 1868. Roy. 8vo. (4""' Livraison.) 



