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1873), being a greatly bettered edition of the very moderate Danmarks 

 Fugle of Kjferbolling ; but the ornithological portion of Nilsson's Skandi 

 navisk Fauna, Foglarna (3rd ed. 2 vols. 8vo, 1858) is of great merit; 

 while the text of Sundevall's Svenska Foglarna (obi. fol. 1856-73), un- 

 fortunately unfinished at his death, but completed in 1886 by Prof. 

 Kinberg, and Herr Holmgren's Skandinaviens Foglar (2 vols. 8vo, 1866- 

 75) deserve naming. 



Works on the Birds of Germany are far too numerous to be recounted. 

 That of the two Naumanns, already mentioned, and yet again to be spoken 

 of, stands at the head of all, and perhaps at the head of the " Faunal '' 

 works of all countries. For want of space it must here suffice simply to 

 name some of the ornithologists who in this century have elaborated, to 

 an extent elsewhere unknown, the science as regards their own country : 

 — Altum, Baldamus, Bechstein, Berlepscli, Blasius (father and two sons), 

 Bolle, Borggreve, whose Vogel-Faxma von Norddeutschland (8vo, 1869) 

 contains what is practically a bibliographical index to the subject, Brehm 

 (father and sons). Von Droste, Gatke, Gloger, Hintz, Holtz, Alexander 

 and Eugen von Homeyer, Jackel, Koch, Konig-Warthausen, Krliper, 

 Kutter, Landbeck, Landois, Leisler, Leverkiihn, Von Maltzan, Matschie, 

 Bernard Meyer, Von der Miihle, Neumann, Tobias, Johann Wolf and 

 Zander.^ Were we to extend the list beyond the boundaries of the 

 German empire, and include the ornithologists of Austria, Bohemia and 

 the other states subject to the same monarch, the number would be nearly 

 doubled ; but that would overpass our proposed limits, though Von 

 Pelzeln must be named. ^ Passing onward to Switzerland, we must con- 

 tent ourselves by referring to the list of works, forming a Bibliographia 

 Ornithologica Helvetica, drawn up by Dr. Stolker for Dr. Fatio's Bulletin 

 de la Socide Ornithologique Suisse (ii. pp. 90-119); but the latter has 

 already published a Catalogue Distributif of Swiss Birds, of which a third 

 edition appeared in 1892, and in conjunction with Dr. Studer is bringing 

 out a more elaborate work on the ornithology of the country, of which 

 two parts have appeared. As to Italy, we have to name here the Fauna 

 d' Italia, of which the second part, Uccelli (8vo, 1872), by Count T. 

 Salvadori, contained an excellent bibliography of Italian works on the 

 subject, while his Elenco degli Uccelli Italiani (Gen ova: 1887) is drawn up 

 with his characteristic thoroughness. Then there is the posthumously 

 published Ornitologia Italiana of Savi (3 vols, 8vo, 1873-77). But the 

 country rejoices in what may be called an official Ornithology. This is 

 the Avifauna Italica of Prof. Giglioli, and consists of four volumes pub- 



^ This is of course no complete list of German ornithologists. Some of the most 

 eminent of them have written scarcely a line on the Birds of their own country, as 

 Cabanis (editor from 1853 to 1893 of the Jcwrnalfur Ornithologie), Finsch, Hartlanb, 

 Hartert, Heine, A. Konig, Prince Max of Wied, A. B. Meyer, Nathusius, Nehrkorn, 

 Eeichenbach and Schalow among others. In 1889 Dr. Eeichenow, of whom more 

 hereafter, published a convenient Systemcdisches Verzeichniss der Vogel Deutschlands 

 und des angrenzenden Mittel-Europas. 



^ An ornithological bibliography of the Austrian-Hungarian dominions was printed 

 in the Verhandlungen of the Zoological and Botanical Society of Vienna for 1878, 

 by Victor Bitter von Tschusi zu Schmidhofen. A similar bibliography of Eussian 

 Ornithology by Alexander Brandt was printed at St. Petersburg in 1877 or 1S78. 



