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wandered nearly twenty years, had been made known. This 

 was the more surprising, considering that the Museum of Vienna 

 had profited so largely by the collections he formed, and that a 

 large quantity of his manuscript notes existed in that establish- 

 ment. Herr von Pelzeln has set himself to supply the defi- 

 ciency, and has published the first portion of a work on the 

 ornithology of Brazil, with special reference to the results of 

 Natterer^s travels*. When the book is completed we hope to 

 speak more at length concerning it; meanwhile we will only say 

 that we can highly recommend it to our readers as a very care- 

 fully executed work, and one which reflects credit as much on 

 the labours of the ornithologist to whose memory it is a fitting 

 tribute, as on those of the ornithologist who is its author. 



Herr von Pelzeln has also communicated a short paper to the 

 Transactions of the Imperial and Royal Zoologico-botanical 

 Society of Vienna (1867, pp. 315-318) -on a collection of bird- 

 skins, sent from New Zealand by Dr. Julius Haast. The fault 

 of the collection is that no precise localities are given for the 

 specimens. Among the species of which examples were sent, 

 two are described as new, Anthornis ruficeps and Xenicus gilvi- 

 ventris ; and the author takes the opportunity of describing a 

 third, Calleeas olivascens, which was obtained at Auckland during 

 the voyage of the Austrian frigate ' Novara,' and included by 

 him in his account of the ornithology of that expedition, under 

 the name of C. cinerea (Reise ' Novara,' Vogel, p. 86). While 

 on the subject of New-Zealand ornithology we may mention 

 that Mr. BuUer's "Essay'' before noticed by us (Ibis, 1867, 

 pp. 131-133) has been translated into German by Herr 0. Finsch, 

 for the ' Journal fiir Ornithologie,' and appears in the September 

 " Heft " of that periodical (pp. 305-347) interspersed with many 

 valuable notes by the industrious translater. The species de- 

 scribed by Mr. Buller as Miinus carunculatus, on which we before 



* Zur Ornitliologie Brasiliens. Resultato von Jobann Natterers 

 Reisen in den Jahren 1817 bis 1835 dargestellt von August von 

 Pelzeln, Gustos am K. K. zoologischen Cabinete in Wien. I. Ab- 

 theiliing. Wien : 1868. (Loudon : Williams and Norg-ato). Bvo, 

 l^p. 08 and xxxi. 



