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better than its predecessor, for the excellent reason that in 

 it are treated the " game-birds/' including- the waders, which 

 appeal to the sporting instincts of the Editor of ' La Diane/ 

 The long descriptions of the various families, genera, and 

 species have been conscientiously com piled, while the numerous 

 illustrations have been drawn with the greatest care; but we 

 are sure that Dr. Fatio's heart was really all the time with the 

 dog and the gun, on the mountains or in the marshes of the 

 great Swiss plain or " trough " which lies between the Jura 

 aud the Alps and extends from the Lake of Constance to Lake 

 Lena an. Hence the sympathetic description of the Tetrao- 

 ninse and their hybrids, the Partridges, Quail, Rails, Wood- 

 cock, Snipe, and Ducks ; as well as the highly satisfactory 

 manner in which he has traced the lines of passage of these 

 and other migrants. Among the rarest of the accidental 

 visitors may be noticed one example of the American Spotted 

 Sandpiper, recorded from Sins, Canton Argau, in June 

 1901 ; one Black Guillemot, from the northern end of the 

 same Canton ; and one Puffin from Lake Leman. Very few 

 examples of the Three-toed Sand-Grouse were obtained in 

 1863, and none are recorded for the great irruption of 1888. 

 There are no collections of living "waterfowl" in Switzer- 

 land, and, as a coincidence, there are no records of any species 

 of Porphyrio. We are rather surprised that Dr. Fatio makes 

 no allusion, even in a footnote, to the identification by 

 Messrs. Rothschild, Hartert, and Kleinschmidt (' Novitates 

 Zoologicse/ iv. p. 371) of the Red-cheeked Ibis with the 

 Waldrapp of Conrad Gesner, a bird which nested in Switzer- 

 land in the sixteenth century. Flamingos have occurred, not 

 infrequently, even in the northern cantons ; but Pelicans have, 

 as yet, stopped at Canton Ticino, on the Italian side. Many 

 species, however — Ducks, Gulls, Terns, and Divers, — have 

 regular crossing-places in the Upper Engadinc, at elevations 

 reaching to 7800 feet, and even remain for some time on the 

 lakes there. 



In the Appendix to the first Part we find Buteo ferox, 

 Emberiza melcmocephala, and Melanocorypha tatarica added 

 to the Swiss list. The Index is full ; there is a good 



