340 Recent Ornithological Publications, 



Mr. J. E. Harting has just brought out a volume* which will 

 exactly meet the requirements of both classes. It is in a quarto 

 form, of writing-paper, ruled with lines horizontally and verti- 

 cally, the heads of the columns printed for " No. of Specimen," 

 " Name of Species," " Locality and Date," and " Remarks." At 

 the end is room for an Alphabetical Index, by filling up which 

 the owner may at once turn to the page on which his specimens 

 are entered. The volume may be obtained with any number of 

 pages ; and Mr. Harting^s plan is so simple that it is adapted to 

 any kind of Natural-History Collections, and we can cordially re- 

 commend it to Ornithologists as an inexpensive and thoroughly 

 useful assistant. 



2. German. 



Not to be behind that of other nations, the Prussian govern- 

 ment, in 1860, dispatched an expedition to Eastern Asia. Its 

 object, we believe, was political; but with that, of course, we 

 have nothing to do here. On board the frigate ' Thetis ' sailed, 

 as naturalist, Dr. Eduard von Martens, of Berlin ; and the first 

 portion of the zoological results of his labours has just reached 

 usf. Though bearing on its cover the date 1865, it would ap- 

 pear, from internal evidence, that the work was not published 

 in that year ; and it has only recently been received in this 

 country. The 'Thetis' having put in at Funchal, Dr. von 

 Martens takes the opportunity of treating at some length of the 

 Madeiran birds; but he does not add to the facts recorded by 

 Mr, E. Vernon-Harcourt (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. 

 XV, pp. 430-438), and has omitted any reference to his country- 

 man. Dr. Carl BoUe's observations on Anthus bertheloti (' Ibis,' 

 1862, p. 343), which is the more surprising, seeing that they 

 were also published in Germany (Journ, fiirOrn, 1862, p, 357). 

 He speaks (p. 25) of a certain " Prion brevirostris, Gould," as oc- 

 curring in the Madeiras, on the authority of Bonaparte (Consp.Av, 

 ii. p. 194) ; but as he does not mention Procellaria mollis, which 



* Catalogue of in the collection of London 



(R. Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly). 4to. 



t Die preussische Expedition uacli Ost-Asien. Nacli amtliclien Quel- 

 len. Zoologische Abtheilung boarbeitet von E. v. Martkns. Erster 

 Baud— Erste Halfte. Berlin : 1865. Roy. 8vo, pp. 192. 



