AVES. 
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Beaumont, J. Elie de. Notice sur les travaux scientifiques 
de son Altesse le Prince Charles-Lucien Bonaparte. Paris : 
1866. 8vo, pp. 22. 
The ornithological publications noticed are forty-seven in number. ( 0/. 
Richard, Bull. Soc. Imp. d’Acclimat. 1860, pp. 404-468.) 
Blyth, E. The Ornithology of India. A Commentary on JD?\ 
Jerdon^s ^ Birds of India.^ [See Indian Region.^^] 
Cassin, John. Fasti Ornithologia3, No. 2 . — Der Natur- 
forscher.^ Proc. Acad. Philad. 1866 *, pp. 35-38. 
The author gives a list of the ornithological papers (several of which, he 
says, are highly interesting) contained in ‘ Der Naturforscher,’ a journal pub- 
lished at Halle from 1774 to 1804, and edited first by Walcli and afterwards 
b}’’ Schreber. {Cf. Ibis, 1806, p. 417.) 
Harting, J. E. The Birds of Shakespeare. Zoologist, Second 
Series, pp. 353-360, 393-424, 465-472. 
A very laudable attempt to identify scientifically the species mentioned 
by the poet. The series of papers is still being continued in the same journal 
for the present year. 
SuNDEVALL, C. J. Lcs Oiscaux d^Afrique de Levaillant, critique 
de cet ouvrage. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1865, pp. 408-414, 
1866, pp. 42-46, 189-197, 227-233. 
A continuation of M. Olph-Galliard’s translation of this paper (cf. Zool. 
Record, ii. p. 55). 
THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Des Murs, O. Un mot sur les Oiseaux fossiles en general, et 
en particulier sur V Archceopteryx lithograpliica. Rev. et 
Mag. de Zoologie, 1866, pp. 256-260. 
The study of the class of birds, to be complete, must not be limited by an 
examination merely of existing species. This opinion is beginning to be fully 
recognized by ornithologists ; and acting upon it, the author proceeds to give 
his idea of the possible afiinities of the celebrated Solenhofen fossil, which he 
thinks must have belonged to the swimming birds, as its long tail would have 
been a great inconvenience to it had it been of arboreal or terrestrial habits. 
The author, however, pronounces this judgment in anticipation of Prof. Owen’s 
memoir on the species. 
Esterno, M. C. Indication des sept lois du vol rame et des 
huit lois du vol k voile. 2”“® edition. Paris (?) : 1865. 
An abstract of this work, which we ourselves have not seen, appears in 
^Der Zoologische Garten’ for 1800 (pp. 169, 160). 
* We owe the possession of a separately printed copy of this paper to the 
kindness of the author, but the ^ Proceedings ’ of the Philadelphia Academy 
for 1800 have not been received in England. May 29, 1867. 
[The first copies of this Journal (1800) reached England in the first week 
of June 1867, which appears the more singular as it is issued in parts. The 
author of this Record having gone abroad at that time, the references have 
been added by the Editor.] 
