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subfamilies ; and tlioiigli personally we do not at all agree with 
the learned author, it is not to be denied that this work will be 
found very useful to the general student. 
CoLLiNGWooD, CuTHBERT. Rambles of a Naturalist on the 
Shores and Waters of the China Sea, &c. London : 1868. 
8 VO, pp. 445. 
The author proceeded by the overland route, and, beside China, 
visited Formosa, Borneo, and Singapore, returning by the Cape 
of Good Hope, St. Ilolcna, Ascension, and the Azores. Ilis 
attention was cliiefly turned to the lower animals, and the work 
contains few ornithological notices. \Cf. Ibis, 1868, pp. 473, 
474; 1869, pp. .] 
Crette de Palluel, a. Memoire sur les Oiseaux acridiphages 
on mangeurs de Sauterelles. Bull, de la Soc. Imper. zool. 
d’Acclimatation, 1868, pp. 257-267. {Cf. tom. cit. pp. 607- 
610.) 
The species chiefly dwelt on belong to Sturnida*', but many 
others of different families are briefly noticed, and their utility 
in destroying locusts and grasshoppers especially mentioned. 
Darwin, Charles. The Variation of Animals and Plants under 
Domestication. 2 vols.8vo,j>p. 411 and 486. London: 1868. 
The author's object is to give, under the head of each species, 
such facts as he has collected, showing the amount of variation 
it has undergone while under man's dominion. In one case 
only, that of the tame Pigeon, has he fully described the chief 
races, their history, the amount and nature of their differences, 
and the probable steps by which they have been formed. Tame 
Fowls and Ducks are also considered with considerable fulness. 
Of course this information is made to bear upon Mr. Darwin's well 
known theory as to the origin of species. What may be called 
the special part of this work occupies nearly the whole of tlie first 
volume ; the remainder, including the consideration of the re- 
markable ^Oiypothesis of Pangenesis," promulgated by the au- 
thor, hardly comes within the range of a * Record ' like the pre- 
sent, and we naturally limit ourselves to an abstract of the prin- 
cipal results given by him with respect to the Fringillidae, Co- 
lumhidee, Phasianid(E,?L\\(\.Anatid(e,^N\\\Qh. will be found under those 
heads respectively, only remarking that many most interesting 
facts arc to be found in the second volume of this work, and pre- 
mising, as a general statement, that he believes that the various 
domesticated animals of those families have each sprung from a 
single species \yide svpra Mammalia," p. 2]. [Cf. Ibis, 1869, 
pp. 218, 219; Am. Nat. 1868, pp. 547-553; F. C. Noll, Zool. 
Garten, 1868, pp. 351, 352.] 
Giglioli, H. H. Letter on the Voyage of the 'Magenta.' 
Ibis, 1868, pp. 497-499. 
1868. [voL. v.] 
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