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In Eussia ornithologists have been especially busy during the last fifteen years, more good 

 work having been done there than in almost any other European country. In the above list I have 

 only included such works as treat of the ornithology of Western Russia, or that portion which is 

 within the limits of the Western Palsearctic area ; but, besides these, several most important works 

 have been published, of which I may name Taczanovvski's ' Faune Ornithologique de la Siberie 

 Orientale ' (4to, St. Petersburg, 1893), Pleske's 'Revision der Turkestanischen Ornis' (4to, 

 St. Petersburg, 1888) and ' Wissenschaftliche Resultate der von Prjevalskis nach Central Asien 

 unternommenen Reisen : Vogel ' (4to, St. Petersburg), and Menzbier's ' Ornithologie du Turkestan 

 et des Pays adjacents' (folio, Moscou), the last two being still in course of publication. 



In Germany, Austria, &c. several useful works and articles relating to the ornithology of 

 those countries have appeared, foremost amongst which I must name Mr. Gatke's ' Vogelwarte 

 Helgoland,' a work that cannot be too highly praised for the large amount of information on the 

 migration of birds it contains ; Friderich's ' Naturgeschichte der Vogel Deutschlands,' though 

 only a popular and not a scientific work, is very good of its kind, but merely a compilation ; and 

 there are several articles which, though not included, not being strictly faunistic, are well 

 worthy of notice, such as E. von Homeyer's " Wanderungen der Vogel " and " Ornithologische 

 Briefe," Prazak's " Versuch einer Monographie der europaischen Sumpf-Meisen," Kleinschmidt's 

 " Das Variiren des Garrulus glandarius," and the articles by Professor Baldamus and Dr. E. Rey 

 on Cuculus canorus. Just as the present sheet was going to press I had an opportunity of 

 seeing the first two parts of a new edition of Naumann's ' Naturgeschichte der Vogel 

 Deutschlands' (folio, Gera, 1896), which has lately been commenced. So far as I can judge, 

 the letterpress will be brought well up to date, but the work is unfortunately disfigured by 

 plates which are infinitely inferior to those in the original work. France, who formerly stood 

 in the front rank as regards ornithological literature, has produced but little during the last 

 twenty years, and has fallen quite into the background : but as regards Italy, Professor Giglioli 

 has kept ornithological literature well up to date. The ornithology of North Africa and 

 the Atlantic Islands has also been well worked by Dr. Koenig and Messrs. Meade-Waldo, 

 J. I. S. Whitaker, Ogilvie Grant, and Canon Tristram. 



In the compilation of the above list I must especially acknowledge the assistance so readily 

 given by Dr. Bianchi of St. Petersburg, Professor R. Collett of Christiania, and Dr. Jonas Collin 

 of Lyngby, Denmark. 



