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1873), being a greatly bettered edition of the very moderate Danmarks 
Fugle of Kjzrbolling ; but the ornithological portion of Nilsson’s Skandi 
navisk Fauna, Foglarna (3rd ed. 2 vols. Svo, 1858) is of great merit ; 
while the text of Sundevall’s Svenska Foglarna (obl. 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, Berlepsch, Blasius (father and two sons), 
Bolle, Borggreve, whose Vogel-Fauna von Norddeutschland (8vo, 1869) 
contains what is practically a bibliographical index to the subject, Brehm 
(father and sons), Von Droste, Gitke, Gloger, Hintz, Holtz, Alexander 
and Eugen von Homeyer, Jiackel, Koch, K6énig-Warthausen, Kriiper, 
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. Stélker for Dr. Fatio’s Bulletin 
de la Société 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 
dItalia, 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 Uccellt Italiani (Genova: 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- 
1 This is of course no complete list of German ornithologists. Some of the most 
eminent cf them have written scarcely a line on the Birds of their own country, as 
Cabanis (editor from 1853 to 1898 of the Journal fiir Ornithologie), Finsch, Hartlaub, 
Hartert, Heine, A. Kénig, Prince Max of Wied, A. B. Meyer, Nathusius, Nehrkorn, 
Reichenbach and Schalow among others. In 1889 Dr. Reichenow, of whom more 
hereafter, published a convenient Systematisches Verzeichniss der Vigel Deutschlands 
und des angrenzenden Mittel-Europas. 
2 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 Ritter von Tschusi zu Schmidhofen. A similar bibliography of Russian 
Ornithology by Alexander Brandt was printed at St. Petersburg in 1877 or 1878. 
