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Recent Ornithological Publications. 



not a very good eflPect in encouraging the study of zoology at 

 our schools generally, and at this one in particular. Marlbu- 

 rians past, present, and to come, must ever regard Mr. Everard 

 im Thurn as a hero, fit to match the champions of Harrow and 

 Eton, whose prowess has before been recorded in these pages. 

 We trust he will not repose upon his laurels. 



2. French. 



With our very limited space it is difficult to speak in adequate 

 terms of the labours of M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards; but we 

 must briefly recount the progress made in his great work*. 

 The extinct species figured in the five numbers published since 

 our last notice (Ibis, 1869, pp. 218-220), are the following: — 



" ItaUides." 

 Aphanapteryx brceckiif (c/. Ibis, 



1869, pp. 256-275). 



Palseoperdix longipes. 



prisca. 



sansaniensis. 



Phasianus medius. 



altus. 



desnoyersi. 



" Colombides" 

 Pterocles sepultus. 

 Columba calcarea. 



> Tertiary. 



" GaUinaces.^' 

 Taoperdix pessietii. i 

 Palaeortyx hoffmanni. > Eocene. 



blanchardi. 1 



gallica. I Pterocles sepultus. ^ ^^.^^^^^ 



brevipes. > Tertiary. 



pliasianoides. ) 



More interesting than these, if possible, however, are the re- 

 mains of still existing species figured as having been found 

 chiefly in the bone-caverns ol the south of France, of which cer- 

 tainly one lives no longer in that country ; these are, Tetrao 

 albus, T. scoticus (?), T. lagopus, T. urogallus, a species of Gallus, 

 Perdix cinerea, Coturnix communis, and, from the peat, Columba 

 palumbus. On the importance of the discovery of the Willow- 

 Grouse we before remarked (Ibis, 1866, p. 414); and we look 

 forward with great pleasure to the details which must be contained 



* Recherches anatomiques et paleontologiques pour servir a rhistoire 

 des Oiseaux Fossiles de la France. Par Alphonse Milne-Edwarbs. 

 Livraisons 26-30. Paris: 1869. 4to. 



t We may here remark that Ritter Georg von Frauenfeld has lately 

 strongly objected (Verhandl. z.-b. Gesellsch. Wien, 1869, pp. 761-764) to 

 the substitution of this name for that of A. imperialis given by him. 



