534 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



since any such general review of these groups has been under- 

 taken. Our space would not permit us to notice a tithe even 

 of the numerous identifications and rectifications of synonymy 

 which the author makes ; we will here only stay to remark that he 

 refers the Ciconia pruyssenaeri of Von Heuglin^ described in the 

 ' Ibis ' for 1864 (p. 430), to the Ardea leucocephala of Gmelin [Me- 

 lanopelargus leucocephalus, Bp., and Ciconia biclavata, Hodgs.). 

 Professor Schlegel considers Balaniceps rex to be a Stork, and 

 indeed, if we rightly understand his expression, would refuse to 

 it generic distinction, including it as a Ciconia; but as the 

 Leyden Museum does not seem to contain a specimen of that 

 remarkable form, it is only incidentally mentioned. 



5. Swedish. 

 Dr. Malmgren's * New Observations on the Bird-fauna of 

 Spitsbergen ' being already noticed in detail in the paper on the 

 birds of that country, contained in our present Number (pp. 

 500-525), we need here do nothing more than briefly record its 

 publication, and express our thanks to its author for a copy 

 of it. 



We have received the Sixteenth part of Professor SundevalFs 

 excellent work on the Birds of Sweden. We cannot add to the 

 many eulogiums that have been already passed upon it in ' The 

 Ibis,^ except to say that we wish there was any chance of our 

 own Ornis being treated in a like masterly way — barring, of 

 course, the slow progress which the book makes. 



6. American. 

 To our kind friend Professor Baird we are indebted for sheets 

 ] 7-20 (inclusive) of his ' Review of American Birds,' the last of 

 which bears date " 20 May, 1865." Even in this limited por- 

 tion of the work many new species are described ; but we have 

 before confessed our individual inability to cope with it in a 

 critical point of view. The author has, however, now reached his 

 320th page : we therefore hope the first volume of it may soon 

 be completed ; and then we trust to lay before our readers a 

 summary of the contents of that portion of this most im- 

 portant work. 



