Recent Ornithological Publications. 113 



B. p. 61) ; and from that gentleman's knowledge of American 

 ornithology we have every confidence in the statement. 



7. Norwegian and Swedish. 



The \\1iale Islands, a group of variously-sized rocks lying off 

 the southern limits of Norway, are the field which has been last 

 investigated by Herr Robert Collett, of Christiania, a young 

 naturalist of much promise ; and he has published a short but 

 sufficiently complete account of them from a biological point of 

 view^, in which is included a list of their Fauna and Flora, with 

 notes on the various species mentioned. As might be expected, 

 from the proximity of these islands to the mainland, the birds 

 occurring on the former, to the number of nearly two hundred 

 species, are almost the same as those which are commonly 

 found on the latter; but one or two stragglers that do not 

 seem to have been observed on the mainland have been met 

 with on the islands. Still this little publication is not without 

 its use for inquirers into the geographical distribution of spe- 

 cies, and it will add to the reputation of its author. 



The second volume of the ' Handbok i Zoologie' of HH. 

 Widegren and Holmgren, comprises the first part of an account 

 of the Birds of Scandinavia by the zoologist last mentioned f, 

 which is very fairly executed. As a popular work on a sci- 

 entific subject, we only wish we had one in this country as good; 

 for it certainly may be favourably compared with many books 

 of far greater pretensions which have been produced for the 

 benefit (?) of English readers. 



A work which claims to be, so far as the author knows, 

 "the first attempt to bring Oology into system — the first 

 attempt to treat that part of zoology scientifically/' certainly 



* Zoologisk botaniske Observationer fra Hvaloerne af Robert Col- 

 lett, Stud. jur. Christiania: 18(36. Svo, pp.83. 



t riandbok i Zoologie fUr Landtbrukare, Skogsliushallare, Fiskeriidare 

 ocb Jag-are. II. Deleu. Skandiuaviens Foglar af Aug. Emil IIolmghen. 

 Forra Haftet. Stockholm : 1806. 8vo, pp. 434. 



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