Recent Ornithological Publications. 341 



we know breeds there in some abundance, we cannot but throw 

 out the suggestion that this last name should be substituted for 

 the first. Such of the birds of the Tropical Atlantic, the 

 Southern Ocean, the Straits of Sunda, and the China Sea as 

 presented themselves to the observation of the author are suc- 

 cessively mentioned as the ' Thetis/ after touching at llio de 

 Janeiro, pursued her course to Japan ; and then we have a pretty 

 full account of the ornithology of this last country, including 

 some interesting particulars derived from a Japanese Encyclo- 

 paedia and other works, in one of which (among, it is true, foreign 

 and fabulous birds) he found (p. 104), strange to say, under the 

 name of " Hoo-dori'"' an indication of a Struthious species with 

 four toes and spurs besides ! Returning southward, the frigate 

 visited some places on the coast of China and Formosa. In the 

 middle of the account of the Philippine Islands the work breaks 

 off, and we look forward with interest to its continuation. 

 Meanwhile we may mention that the author communicated to 

 the 'Journal fiir Oruithologie ' for 1866 (pp. 5-31) a list of 

 the birds of that group ; and it is the fact of his referring to that 

 list in the course of the work we have just been noticing that, to 

 all appearance, proves the date on its title-page to be wrong. 



There has lately reached us a " Supplement " to the late Herr 

 Badeker's ' Eier der europaischen Vogel,' which was finished in 

 1863. Since Dr. Brehm, who was, with Herr Passler, the joint 

 author of the letterpress to this work, of which a detailed notice 

 appeared in the former series of this Journal (Ibis, 1859, 

 pp. 400—415), has been some time dead, we imagine it is to the 

 latter that the authorship of this publication must be ascribed. 

 It gives a few additional particulars of the mode of nidification 

 of some of the species included in the body of the work ; but in 

 many cases the writer has not availed himself of the newest 

 information on the subject. Some of our readers, however, may 

 be glad to know of the existence of these supplementary ])ages, 

 that they may possess the volume in its entirety, and we there- 

 fore append in full their title''^. 



' Die Eier der europaiselieu Vogel iiach der Natur gemalt von F. W. J. 

 B^DEKER. Mit einer Besclircibuiif' des Nustbaues p-emeiuscluiftlicli 



