228 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



includes a circle described by a radius of about eighteen Englisb 

 miles from that town. The book is altogether an interesting 

 one, and will be especially so to tourists in Norway who desire 

 to pursue ornithology. To such we accordingly recommend its 

 study, being confident that they will derive more information 

 from it than from several other works of much greater preten- 

 sion that have been recently published. 



7. Russian. 

 We have been much disappointed to find that Professor von 

 Baer's article in the St. Petersburg ' Bulletins' *, on the extinc- 

 tion oi Alca impennis, in continuation of the series of papers on 

 extirpated animals commenced by him in the same publication, 

 is simply a translation into German of part of Professor Steen- 

 strup's well-known and valuable monograph of that bird. Not 

 a single new fact is added, nor is a single new deduction drawn 

 from the old ones, as given by the illustrious naturalist last 

 named. To our German brethren, who disapprove of the use 

 of the Danish language, Professor von Baer's paper will be a 

 boon ; but we are somewhat surprised to find the Imperial 

 Academy of the Russian capital sanctioning the publication of 

 a mere translation in their ' Transactions.' 



8. American. 



Mr. D. G. Elliot's new workf, which has now reached its 

 second number, is a book on a scale corresponding to the ' Mono- 

 graph of the Genus Pitta ' by the same author, with which most 

 of our readers are acquainted : it contains full- sized coloured 

 representations of every species of the group in question, drawn 

 by the author, and accompanied by descriptive letter-press. In 

 the First part are figured — 



* Ueber das Aussterben dei* Thierarten in physiologischer und nicht 

 physiologischer Hinsicht iiberhaupt u. s. w. Von K. E. von Baer. Zweite 

 Halfte, erste Abtbeilung. — Bulletin de I'Academie Imperiale des Sciences 

 de St. Petersbourg, vol. vi. p. 514. 



t A Monograph of the Tetraoninte, or Family of the Grouse. By Daniel 

 G. ElUot, F.Z.S. New York : published by the Author, No. 27 West 

 Thirty-third Street. (London: Williams and Norgate.) Imperial folio. 



