AVES. 
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Malmgren, a. J. Nya Anteckningar till Spetsbergens fogel- 
fauna. CEfvers. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1864, pp. 377-412. 
(Translated by Dr. C. F. Frisch) Journ. fur Orn. 1865, 
pp. 192-216, 261-270. 
This paper is in continuation of one published in the same 
journal for 1863 (pp. 87-126), and contains the results of the 
author’s further observations made in 1864. He reckons twenty- 
seven species as the avifauna of the country. Very many that 
Were formerly assigned to it rest upon insufficient authority. 
Renewed researches have not led him to take a more favourable 
view of their claims than he did in 1863, but he makes some 
few changes in the identification of the species met with. No 
naturalist has enjoyed such opportunities of becoming acquainted 
with the zoology of Spitsbergen as the author, and his opinions 
in regard to it must retain their influence for many years ; but 
personally we are unable to agree with all of them, though this 
is chiefly on general grounds of principle, such, for instance, as 
what differences are sufficient to constitute ^^a species.” This 
paper, like its predecessor, is worked up with great care. It 
contains also a short notice of the birds of Bear Island, lying 
between North Cape and Spitsbergen, a place not visited before 
by any ornithologist. 
Marchand, Armand. Catalogue des Oiseaux observes dans le 
departement d’Eure-et-Loir. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1865, 
pp. 262-266. 
In continuation of the series of papers noticed last yeav 
(Zool. Record, i. p. 43) . 
Milne-Edwards, H. Rapport sur diverses Collections envoyes 
au Museum par le V. Armand David, missionnaire h Pekin. 
Nouv. Arch, du Museum, Bull. pp. 30, pis. 1 & 2. 
Father David’s collections were formed in the north of China, 
and the report upon them contains several observations on the 
general natural history of that still little-known country, orni- 
thology, however, occupying the principal position both in col- 
lections and observations. Two species are described as new, 
Carpodacus davidianus and Abrornis armandij both of which are 
figured. 
More, A. G. On the Distribution of Birds in Great Britain 
during the Nesting-Season. Ibis, 1865, pp. 1-27, 119-142, 
425-458. With a map (pi. i.). 
The object of this series of articles is to show more accurately 
than has hitherto been done the precise limits of each species 
in Great Britain during the breeding-season, that being the 
only time when the birds could be treated as stationary. For 
this purpose the division of the whole country into districts, 
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