ornithology of other parts of the globe, a subject in -which they 
have hitherto so much distinguished themselves; but the follow- 
ing pages will, we fear, from the disproportionately long list of 
publications relating to the Palsearctic Eegion, show that this 
tendency is not exclusively confined to the ornithologists of Ger- 
many. Dr. Hartlaub, however, prefixes to his Report fewer 
general observations than usual, and these do not seem to 
require any detailed notice on our part. It is almost needless to 
add that the work is compiled with its author^s accustomed 
ability. 
Finsch, O. Index ad Caroli Luciani Bonaparte Conspectum 
Generum Avium. Lugd. Batav. : 1865. Roy. 8vo, pp. 23. 
The titlepage of this publication fully explains its scope ; its 
utility will be self-evident to every working ornithologist. It is 
only to be regretted that it was not extended so as to contain 
every name, whether generic or specific, mentioned in the * Con- 
spectus,^ instead of being limited to the genera therein adopted, 
and the species described or named by Bonaparte. It has been 
most accurately compiled. {Cf. Journ. fiir Orn. 1864, p. 466 ; 
Ibis, 1865, p. 532.) 
SuNDEVALL, C. J. Lcs Oiscaux d’Afrique de Levaillant, cri- 
tique de cet ouvrage. Trad, du Suedois par Leon Olph 
Galliaru. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1865, pp. 153-159, 192, 
209-212, 249-254, 279-285, 323-329. 
The original of this able paper appeared some years ago in 
the Transactions of the Stockholm Academy (Vet. Akad. 
Handl. ii. no. 3), before which it was read in 1857 ! M. Gal- 
liard, however, has certainly conferred a benefit on those ornitho- 
logists to whom the introductory part, written in the Swedish 
language, was inaccessible. At present, however, he has not 
half got through his task. (Cf, Ibis, 1859, pp. 324, 325.) 
THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Fitzinger, Leop. Jos. Ueber das System und die Charak- 
teristik der natiirlichen Familien der Vogel. Sitzungsb. 
der Kaiserl. Akad. der Wissensch. Wien, 1865, pp. 285-322. 
This is the third and concluding portion of the author^s paper. 
The first appeared in the same journal for 1856, and comprised, 
according to his classification and nomenclature, the orders 
Psittacinij Raptatores, Nocturniy Scansores, and Amhulatores , the 
latter being further divided into suborders, of which two, Gres- 
sorii and ConirostreSj were then included. The second portion, 
in the volume for 1862 (pp. 194-240), treated of the remaining 
suborders of Amhulatores — Uncirostres, Coracirostres, Subulu 
