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by many of our readers, while the Editor has certainly done 

 his best to make it acceptable to thcni. His Introduction 

 contains a sketch of the author's life, passages from his 

 friend Gesner's great work, in which Turner is mentioned, a 

 list of the birds determined by him arranged under Families 

 so as to be readily found, and an Appendix containing ex- 

 tracts, with translations, from John Caius's work of 1570, 

 wherein eleven species of birds are treated, and finally a full 

 index to the whole. 



Now we would offer a friendly challenge to our German 

 brethren. We have taken from them an English author 

 whom they have long held in captivity. Why should they 

 not generously retaliate by setting free a prisoner — nay, two 

 prisoners — of their own nation, and give us a reprint of the 

 Appellationes Volucrum of Eber and Peucer ? It is said to 

 have been published first at Wittenburg in 1551, but we 

 have never set eyes on a copy bearing an earlier date than 

 1575. It is often quoted by Gesner, and that in itself is a 

 recommendation. — A. N. 



10. Goeldi's Album of Amazonian Birds. 



[Album de Aves Ainazonicas orgauisado pelo Professor Dr. Emilio A. 

 Goeldi. 2do fascicule Para, 1902.] 



We have already noticed ('Ibis/ 1902, pp. 149, 510) the 

 first part of Dr. Goeldi's ' Album.' The second part con- 

 tains illustrations, printed in colours, of the Amazonian 

 Cotingas, Manikins, Parrots, Woodpeckers, Ant-eaters, 

 Curassows, and many other birds, and is quite up to the same 

 high standard. The work will, no doubt, serve its purpose of 

 calling attention to the rich and varied Avifauna of Amazonia. 



11. Hartert on the Birds of the Key arid South-east Islands. 



[On the Birds of the Key and South-east Islands and of Ceram-laut. 

 By Ernst Hartert. Nov. Zool. x. p. 232 (1903).] 



Mr. Hartert now gives us his third and final article on 

 the birds collected by Mr. Heinrich Kiihn on the Key group 

 and other islands south-east of Cerain (cf. 1 Ibis/ 1901, pp. 503, 

 726), bringing up the total to 150 species and subspecies. 



