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gives us of the nidification of this species agrees very fairly with 

 that published in 1862 by Herr E. Schiitt, as observed by him 

 iu the Duchy of Badeu, and reprinted in a former volume of this 

 Journal (Ibis, 1862, p. 365). The eggs sent us by Herr Eischer 

 are very lightly spotted, but it is quite likely that better-marked 

 specimens will be procured. One or more of them, however, 

 will be figured in the Zoological ' Proceedings ' for the present 

 year; so that it is unnecessary for us to insert a particular de- 

 scription of them here. 



6. Swedish and Norwegian. 

 To Mr. Malmgren^s ' Notes on the Bird- Fauna of Spitsber- 

 gen,^ reference has been already made in the present number 

 {antea, p. 200) ; and as the continuation of that article will in- 

 clude a more precise criticism of this gentleman^s excellent paper, 

 we need not anticipate our own remarks upon it. 



We have lately had the opportunity of perusing Mr. Collett^s 

 ' Review of the Ornithological Fauna of the Neighbourhood of 

 Christiania^*, a book which cannot but be useful to the many 

 English travellers, capable of understanding Norsk, who yearly 

 pass through the modern capital of Norway, and all of whom 

 consider it more or less " the right thing " to profess an interest 

 in the ornithology of the wild country they are visiting. The 

 writer has evidently studied his subject with great care and dili- 

 gence, both in the field and in the museum. He also acknow- 

 ledges the assistance he has received from Professors Esmark 

 and Rasch, of the University of Christiania. But all this has 

 not prevented him from falling into a few important errors : 

 amongst others, he mentions the occurrence of SyiThaptes para- 

 doxus in Norway in both 1861 and 1862, whereas 1863 was the 

 year of the great irruption, and we have been unable to hear of 

 its occurrence in that country previously. Mr. Collett tells us 

 that the list of birds observed in Norway comprises 244 spe- 

 cies ; and of these, 220 have been noticed as occurring, and 169 

 as breeding, in the Christiania district, which, by his definition, 



* Oversight af Christiania Omegns Ornithologiske Fauna. Af Robert 

 Collett, Stud, juris. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne Physiographiske 

 Forening, B. iii., H. 3. Christiania: 1864. 



