108 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



tions in the list of the European Ornis, and many of the errors 

 of Temminck and other writers, which have been constantly 

 exposed, are still copied. 



In 1865 was commenced a very magnificent work, having for 

 its subject the birds which breed in Lombardy*, and as its author 

 Signor Eugenio Bettoni. We are very glad we delayed to notice 

 this book ; for the first two or three parts of it which came 

 before us were decidedly inferior to their successors which we 

 have now seen, and we can therefore speak in terms of higher 

 praise than would have been possible before. A very consi- 

 derable number of birds, with their nests, eggs, and nestlings, 

 have already been well figured, and the letterpress has assumed 

 a character far superior to what it at first promised. Some very 

 good remarks on the distribution of birds in Lombardy will be 

 found (pp. 14-16). We were not prepared for the information 

 that Antltus richanli is one of the characteristic species of the 

 Lombard plains ; it had always been a puzzle to us whence came 

 the examples of this species which so frequently occur in England. 

 We ought to mention that we believe that the cost of publi- 

 cation of this luxurious work is defrayed by the munificence of 

 the Counts Turati, whose grand collection it serves to illustrate. 



Signor Gaetano Cara, the Director of the Royal Museum at 

 Cagliari, has very kindly forwarded us a copy of a pamphlet f 

 in which he reviews, and, in some cases very severely, comments 

 on Dr. Salvadori^s 'Catalogue of the Birds of Sardinia,^ noticed by 

 us some years ago (Ibis, 1865, p. 225), wherein that author made 

 certain observations on, and corrections of, the 'Ornitologia 

 Sarda' published by Signor Cara in 1842. We have here neither 

 space nor, we must confess, inclination to follow Signor Cara 



* Storia Naturale degli Uccelli che nidificano in Lombardia, ad illustra- 

 zione della raccolta ornitologica dei fratelli Ekcole ed Ernesto Turati. 

 Scritta da Eugenio Bettoni. Con tavole litografate e colorate prese dal 

 vero da 0. Dressler. Fascicoli i.-xv. Milauo: 1860-67. (Loudon, 

 Williams and Norg-ate.) Folio. 



t Osservazioni di Gaetano Cara al Catalogo degli Uccelli di Sardegna 

 pubblicatodal DottoreTommaso Salvadori. Cagliari: 1866. 8vo, pp. lo2. 



