490 Messrs. Sclater and Finsch's Index to the 



Forstwirt/ie, Jager und Freunde der Vogel. 8vo, pp. 36, 

 with 7 woodcuts. Wien : 1872. (Faesy & Frick.) 

 The protection of birds, a subject at present so much talked 

 about, is very carefully treated, and all the questions con- 

 cerned with it satisfactorily auswered. The useful birds and 

 those which do damage are enumerated. We may remark, 

 however, that the usefulness of birds is modified by the country 

 wherein they live; so, e.g., Corvus comix, which is correctly 

 enumerated amongst the useful birds, cannot be considered so 

 in Scandinavia, being a great destroyer of the eggs of Water- 

 fowl in that country. 



2. Ornithologische Mittheilungen aus Oesterreich (1871). 

 Journ. f. Orn. 1872, pp. 131-137. 



Observations on 18 species of birds, the most interesting of 

 which are Acanthis linaria, found breeding in the Salzbur- 

 gian Alps, Nucifraga caryocatactes, in Upper Styria, and the 

 occurrence of a flock of hundreds of Pastor roseus near Po- 

 nowitsch, in Carinthia, in the beginning of June. 



Vian, Jules. 



Causeries Ornithologiques. R. Z. 1872, pp. 33-18, 81-90, 

 321-330. 



Treats of Aquila leucorypha, from the Ural, Emberiza 

 cioides, Anthus cervinus, Parus lugubris, Alauda pispoletta, 

 A. sibirica ; of the so-called " spurious " primary in birds ; of 

 Falco peregrinoides, Lanius phoenicurus, and L. super ciliosus. 



Vogel, Georg. 



Die Fortpflanzung des Tannenh'dhers im Jura Solothurns. 

 Verhandl. der St. Gallischen naturw. Gesellsch. 1871-72, 

 and Separatabdruck : St. Gallen 1873. Zollikofer. 8vo, 

 pp. 32. 

 A full account of the nesting, breeding, and habits of Nuci- 

 fraga caryocatactes in the Jura. 



Ussher, H. T. 



[See Sharpe, R. B.] 



Walden, Arthur, Viscount. 



1. Letter from. Ibis, 1872, pp. 330, 331. 



