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devoted to the study of the avifauna of Italy and to every- 

 thing connected with birds in geucrah The editor ha^ 

 secured the support of Prof. Giglioli and Count Salvador! 

 and of many other correspondents in various parts of Italy, 

 whose names are given on the titlepage. Prof. Giglioli 

 writes on the occurrence of Corvus tingitanus in Sardinia, 

 and Sig. Meloni records the first appearance of Cursorius 

 gallicus in the same island. Other rare visitors are chronicled, 

 and notices of recent publications and of other ornithological 

 topics are added. We wish our new contemporary every 

 sort of success. 



65. Blaamv' s ' Monogrciph of tUe Cranes.' 



[A Monograph of the Cranes. By F. E. Blaauw. Illustrated by 22 

 Coloured Plates (the greater number drawn under the immediate super- 

 intendence of Dr. G. F. Westerman) by Heinrich Leutemann and 

 J. G. Keulemans. Folio. Leiden and London : E. J. Brill and R. H 



Porter, 1897.] 



We are sure that all ornithologists will be pleased with 

 Mr. Blaauw's beautiful volume on the Cranes, which has 

 lately been issued by Mr. Brill in Leiden and Mr. Porter in 

 London. It contains not only a splendid and accurate series 

 of figures of these birds, their young ones and their eggs, 

 but also an excellent text, giving as complete an account as 

 possible of every known species of the family. 



The original drawings of the Cranes were made for tlie 

 late Dr. Westerman by the well-known German artist Leute- 

 mann, and bequeathed by Westerman to Mr. Blaauw with 

 an injunction to publish them. This Mr. Blaauw has now 

 done, after adding to the original series figures of Grus 

 7iigricoUis and of the young and eggs of some of the species, 

 prepared by Keulemans. 



Mr. Blaauw considers that Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, in his 

 revision of the Gruidse, published in the 23rd volume of the 

 ' Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum,' has " need- 

 lessly augmented the number of genera," which he reduces to 

 three — Grus, Anthropoides, and Balearica. He also declines 

 to recognize three of the species adopted by Dr. Sharpe — 



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