518 Recently published Ornithological Works 



Naturg. aller Vogel Deutschlands " (1831, p. 447). Here it 

 is referred to by the name Calamoherpe Brekmii M tiller. 

 This latter description has until now escaped the notice of 

 bibliographers. 



Herr Schalow has recently found in the library of the 

 ornithological department a manuscript description with a 

 plate, which is here reproduced, by " Herr Canzelist Miil'er 

 in Briinn,'^ from which Brehm's quotation and description 

 are undoubtedly drawn. This now forgotten naturalist 

 seems to have also obtained a single example of this curious 

 aberration near Briinn, in Austria. 



In commenting on this Herr Schalow gives some instances 

 which have come to his notice of similar variations in other 

 species as, for instance, in Turdus torquatus, T. musicus and 

 T. merula ; also in Prunella modidaris and Sylvia curruca. 



Schalow on the Nutcracker in Thuringia. 



[Uber das Brut-Vorkommen Ton Nucifraga caryocatactes caryo- 

 catactes L. in Thiiiingen. Von Herman Scbalow. .Tuurn. f. Ornith. 

 1914, pp. 148-156, map.] 



In this paper Herr Schalow discusses the breeding-range 

 of the two forms of Nutcracker in Germany, for it has 

 recently been shown that the so-called Siberian or Thick- 

 billed form, Nucifraga c. macrorhyncJms , breeds as far west 

 as East Prussia. The typical N. c. caryocatactes breeds in 

 the mountains of southern Germany, from the Black Forest 

 to the Reisen-gebirge, which lie on the borders of Bohemia 

 and Silesia, and though there appears to be an outlying 

 breeding-colony in the Harz the bird does not nest in the 

 Thuringian Mountains, which appear to be quite suitable 

 for it. 



In this paper the author examines the evidence which has 

 from time to time been brought forward to prove that the 

 Nutcracker breeds in Thuringia, but comes to the conclusion 

 that it does not, and never has done so. The understanding 

 of the paper is greatly facilitated by a sketch-map showing 

 the breeding- places, and also the mountainous regions where 

 you might expect to find the Nutcracker breeding, but do not. 



