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Recent Ornithological Publications. 



England ; " but, as a wliole, the work is very carefully com- 

 piled, and we hope our readers will be duly thankful to us for 

 removing the bushel which has hitherto hidden this hght which 

 they will doubtless find extremely serviceable to them. 



With his usual punctuality Mr. Gould has brought out his 

 two annual Parts of the ' Birds of Great Britain.' The follow- 

 ing are the species of which they treat : — 



Part VII. 



Whitethroat. 



Merlin. 

 Golden Oriole. 

 Rose-coloured Pastor. 

 Great Northern Diver. 

 Black-throated Diver. 

 Red-throated Diver. 

 Blackcap. 

 Garden Warbler. 



Hobby. 



Red-throated Bluebreast. 



Twite, or Mountain Linnet. 



Nutcracker. 



Green Sandpiper. 



Jack Snipe. 



Heron. 



Little Tern. 



Lesser Whitethroat. 



Melodious Warbler. 



Reed-Bunting. 



Lapwing, or Peewit. 



Teal. 



Garganey. 



Part VIII. 



Common Tern. 

 Arctic Tern. 

 Puffin. 

 Great Skua. 

 Pomatorhine Skua. 

 Arctic Skua. 

 Long-tailed Skua. 



The care bestowed both on the plates and the letter-press of 

 this grand work seems to increase with each succeeding year ; 

 and if no more of it were produced than has at present ap- 

 peared, enough would have been done to place it above all the 

 rest of the author's important publications. Profiting by recent 

 discoveries, Mr. Gould takes occasion to illustrate the very 

 remarkable and abnormal mode of nidification of the Green 

 Sandpiper, which is here for the first time, we believe, repre- 

 sented. With reference to the last plate in Part VIII., we 

 would, however, venture to inquire whether any of our readers 

 have ever seen a Skua in the act of swimming ? We have had 

 some experience in observing all the European species, but we 

 never had the good fortune to witness such a scene as that which 

 is therein depicted. 



