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3. Italian. 



We hail the appearance of Count Salvadori's ' Catalogue of 

 the Birds of Sardinia^* as a real and most valuable acquisition 

 to our knowledge of European ornithology. The writer is 

 evidently not only well " posted-up " in his subject generally, but 

 appears to be a most accurate field-naturalist^ and, we should 

 imagine, also a good sportsman. His rectification of Signer 

 Carats mistakes is itself a benefit to science, and we hope we may 

 hereafter enrol him among the list of our contributors. The 

 absence of Alauda cristata from Sardinia is certainly a very 

 remarkable fact — far more so even than the curious circumstance 

 of its non-occurrence on the north side of the Straits of Dover, 

 while it is so plentiful between Calais and Boulogne. We par- 

 ticularly commend to our readers' attention Count Salvadori's 

 account of Sturnus unicolor, which a friend of ours, who has 

 made three visits to the island, assures us he can confirm in 

 every particular; and, in conclusion, we can only say that we 

 hope each country in Europe may at no distant time possess an 

 ornithologist so conscientious as the one whose work we are 

 noticing. 



4. Geeman. 



No doubt many of our readers who are egg-collectors possess 

 in their cabinets specimens inscribed " Zeleb.^^ followed by cer- 

 tain mystic characters indicating a date ; but perhaps few of them 

 know that they owe these specimens to Herr Johann Zelebor, a 

 Conservator of the Imperial and Boyal Museum at Vienna, a 

 naturalist who several years ago made a journey to the south- 

 eastern frontiers of the Austrian dominions, where he reaped a 

 rich oological harvest. Since then we have heard of him as being 

 one of the members of the celebrated ' Novara ' expedition ; and 

 in 1863 he performed another " Acquisitions-Reise " to the 

 Theiss and Lower Danube, an account of which appears in the 

 numbers of the Vienna ^ Jagd-Zeitung ' for last year. The 

 principal object of this journey seems to have been to procure 

 living examples of various animals for the Emperor's menagerie 



* Catalogo degli Uccelli di Sardegna, con note e ossei-vazioni di Tom- 

 niaso Salvador!. Atti della Societa Italiana di scienze natural!, vol. v!. 

 M!lano: 1864. 



