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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
be done by a scientific man to adapt bis subject to popular taste 
without making it less precise or wanting in dignity. 
Tristram, H. B. Report on the Birds of Palestine. Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1864, pp. 426-456. 
Three hundred and twenty-two species are enumerated in 
this most important paper. They are said to be strictly those 
which came under the personal observation, or are in the 
collections, of members of the author^s exploring party. Of the 
322 Palestine species, 230 are land-birds, and 92 water-birds ; 
96 of the whole are common to China and Palestine, and 260 
common to Eui’ope and Palestine ; 31 are non-European species 
common to East Africa, and are chiefly desert-species of Nubia 
and the Sahara, while 27 are peculiar to Palestine and the 
districts adjacent, — the whole summary shoAving that Palestine 
must be included in the western part of the Palu3arctic Region. 
Nine previously undescribed species were met with by Mr. 
Tristram. 
[Wheelwright, H. W.] A Spring and Summer in Lapland. 
By an Old Bushman. London : 1864, 12rno. 
This is a reprint of a series of articles which appeared in the 
^ Field ^ Newspaper for 1863. The author passed the spring 
and summer of that year in LuleS Lappmark, having his head 
quarters at Quickjock ; and much interesting information con- 
cerning the birds of that district is given by him. Mr. Wheel- 
wright is well known to be an observer of great experience and 
long-proved accuracy. 
Wright, C. A. List of Birds observed in the Islands of Malta 
and Gozo. Ibis, 1864, pp. 42-73, I37-I57. Additions to 
the above, ojj. cit. pp. 291, 292. 
Two hundred and fifty-three species are enumel’ated as 
having, Avith a few exceptions, been observed by the author 
during the last ten or twelve years — thirty more than were 
noticed in Schembri’s Catalogue published in 1843, while four 
others, erroneously included by as many writers, are omitted. 
Only ten or twelve species are resident, Malta being merely a 
resting-place for birds in their periodical passages across the 
Mediterranean. These generally arrive and leave at night, 
usually not remaining more than one day. Some species, hoAV- 
ever, stay a few months, while flocks, chiefly of Grallce and 
AnsereSj pass over high in air without alighting. In spring the 
Quails and most of the short-winged and smaller birds, though 
not unfrequently arriving in calm Aveather, generally appear 
during the prevalence of winds from N.N.W. to S.S.W., and in 
autumn with those from the S.S.E. to N.N.E., being probably 
