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crowded streets, "built their nests there and brooded. He farther remarks, 
that judging from an oil painting, a Pelecanus onocrotalus was shot in 
Prussia, in the year 1608. Finally, he gives an interesting description 
of the Sasper-lake at Danzig, on which numerous water-fowl brood in 
great security, but which he surprised in a boat. Larus ridibundus is 
most abundant. In the nestlings of the Sterna nigra, he remarked a 
chalky white spot on the tip of its otherwise black bill. 
The first attempt at an enumeration of the Birds of Siebenbiirgen has 
been made by Landbek in the Isis, p. 181. Though the author himself 
confesses the incompleteness of his list, yet he has already mentioned 
261 species. There is an interesting description of the Reiherinsel at 
Adony in Hungary, by the same author (Isis, p. 267). Andree’s Ofver- 
sigt af Gottland’s Faglar, in the K. V. Acad. Handl. for 1841, p. 207, 
is a valuable contribution to the knowledge of the geographical distri- 
bution of the European species. In C. J. Sundevall’s Remarks on 
Scandinavian Ornithology (1. c. Ar. 1840, Stockh. 1842, p. 31), there 
are mentioned : — a. Birds accidentally present. 1. Turdus varius : 2. 
Fringilla erythrina : 3. Columba turtur : 4. Otis tetrax. — h. Scandi- 
navian species. 5. Alauda alpestris : Q. Anthus pratensis : ^.Motacilla 
jiava : 8. Emberiza citrinella : 9. Fringilla linaria. The second 
division is particularly valuable, from the separating of the varieties 
and their distribution, to which we shall return at a later period. 
L. Schrader has furnished a List of Birds in the high north regions of 
Scandinavia, in the Isis, p. 616. 
The reporter takes this occasion of drawing attention to some Swedish 
copper-plates, which, however, are merely known to him from Sundevall’s 
report, in his Arsberatt. om. Zool. arbet. p. 540, namely, — 1. Svenska 
Foglar af broderna v. Wright, which, as Sundevall asserts, excel all 
other works, native or foreign, in faithful delineation ; and not only are 
the exterior covering of the feet and bill admirably represented, but also 
the feathering and posture of the bird (30 Nos., each 2^ Rdr. Bko., with 
6 plates). 2. Korner Skandinaviska foglarne, mit kol. fig. (6th part, 
1841). 3. J. Ad. af Strom Svenska foglarne, mit kol. fig. (6th part, 
1841). 4. J. Ad. af Strom Svenska foglarna, 100 Sid. med. 9 pi. af W. 
V. Wright. Stockh. 1839. 5. Svenska Colorerade fogelagg af J. D. Hog- 
beg (1st part, Stockh. 1840. 
W. Thompson has continued his description of the Birds of Ireland, in 
the Ann. of Nat. Hist. ix. p. 141, 221, 373, and x. p. 50, 171, and has 
got as far as Caprimulgus. H. L. Meyer’s Illustrations of British Birds 
and their Eggs, N. I, Lond. 1842, 8vo., is a smaller edition of the same 
author’s larger work in 4to. The Naturalist’s Library, vol. 34 (1842), 
contains the third volume of British Birds, by Sir. W. Jardine. 
The Faune Beige, par E. de Selys Longchamps, is rich in personal 
observations on the Belgian Birds, and contains a tolerably complete 
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