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his death, show him to have been one of the leading ornithological stu- 

 dents of his time, and even after a lapse of fifty years they have still value 

 and interest as a contribution to Hungarian ornithology. 



An introduction of nearly twenty pages by Otto Herman contains an 

 interesting biographical sketch of Petenyi, and the editor's preface adds 

 many details respecting his ornithological work. From the latter it ap- 

 pears that as early as 1842 he had already reached the point of distinguish- 

 ing climatic varieties as such. In the ' Fragmente' we have some account 

 of less than half of the species of the Hungarian ornis, and these accounts 

 vary from rather brief and incomplete notices to elaborate monographs, 

 as in the caae of Falco sacer, which occupies over twenty pages, besides 

 some dozen additional pages by the editor, on the status of F. fcldeggi, 

 which he considers as merely a subspecies of F. sacer. The illustrations, 

 by the editor, though not numerous, are especially noteworthy, particularly 

 for the naturalness of pose of the birds depicted, both in the text cuts and 

 in the plates; in fact, more life-like or more pleasing bird pictures we have 

 rarely seen. — J. A. A. 



Harvie-Brown's ' Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe.' ■ — 

 These two beautiful volumes 1 relate to travels made by the author some 

 thirty to thirty-four years ago, in Norway, Archangel, and Petchora, but 

 the narrative has lost little of interest through the long delay in making 

 it public. It is in journalistic form, being the author's journals just as 

 he " wrote them down at the close of each day," with no attempt to 

 rewrite or clothe in new phraseology the original entries. And herein 

 lies much of the charm and much of historical value. 



The first trip was to Norway in 1871, the account of which occupies 

 pp. 1-103, with an appendix of twenty pages giving an annotated list 

 of the birds (101 species) observed. The second trip was to Archangel 

 in 1872, recounted in pp. 127-182, with appendices (pp. 183-209) giving 

 lists of the birds and eggs collected around Archangel, and of the rarer 

 birds in the museum at Archangel. The third journey was to Petchora 

 in 1875 (pp. 215-476), the account of which is followed by several appen- 

 dices on the ornithological results of the expedition, with some account 

 of the Samoyedes. The author on the first two trips was accompanied 

 by the late Edward R. Alston, and on the journey to the Petchora by the 

 late Henry Seebohm, on which journey was based his well-known "Siberia 

 in Europe. ' 



The illustrations include two colored plates (eggs of Gray Plover and 

 Little Stint), portraits of the author, of Prof. Robert Collett, E. R. 



^travels of a Naturalist | in Northern Europe | Norway, 1871 | Archangel, 1872 | 

 Petchora, 1875 | By | J. A. Harvie Brown, F. R. S. E., F. Z. S. | Member of the 

 British Ornithologists' | Union, etc. | Joint Author of 'Fauna of the Moray Basin' 

 and | 'A Vertebrate Fauna of Orkney'; | Author of 'A Vertebrate Fauna of the N. 

 W. Highlands and Skye' | With coloured plates and other illustrations | and 4 maps | 

 Vol. I [-II] | London: T. Fisher Unwin | Paternoster Square. MC MV [ — 2 veils. 

 8vo. Vol. I, pp. i-xiv, 1-260, 15 pll. and 2 maps. Vol. II, pp. i-viii, 261-541, 2 col. 

 pll., 2 maps, 8 plain pll., and numerous text cuts. 



