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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Ibis^ 1865, pp. 67-83 ; Part II., op. cit. pp. 241-263, 
pi. ii. 
These articles contain fuller details of the birds observed by 
the author and his friends. The characters of the Palestine 
avifauna as shown by Mr. Tristram^s Report (P. Z. S. 1864, 
p. 426) we last year mentioned (Zool. Record, i. p. 46). The 
first of the two papers we have here to notice enlarges on the 
general features of the country from an ornithological point of 
view, and on some of the most remarkable species found in it, 
such as Nectarinia osea (of which a beautiful plate is given), 
Cypselus galilceensis (since shown by Mr. Sclater to be identical 
with C. affinis), Hirundo rufula, Crateropus chalyheiuSy Ixus 
oaanthopygiuSy and Drymoeca gracilis. The second article contains 
a catalogue, with notes, of all the birds of prey observed by the 
author^s party. The fact here most noticeable is the identifica- 
tion of what was in his Report named Accipiter sphenurus 
with the Astur brevipes of Severzow {Cf. Ibis, 1865, pp. 341, 
342). Further details of the singular and interesting dis- 
covery of Ketupa ceylonensis in the Holy Land are also given. 
The publication of Mr. Tristram^s paper is being still con- 
tinued, 
Tristram, H. B. The Land of Israel; a Journal of Travels 
in Palestine, undertaken with special reference to its 
physical character. London : 1865, 8vo, pp. 652, 
This entertaining volume furnishes a connected account of 
the authors travels, of the results of which we have before 
spoken, 
[Wheelwright, H. W.] Ten Years in Sweden, &c. By an 
Old Bushman. London ; 1865, 8vo. 
Pages 249-450 of this work contain a List of all the Birds 
met with at the present day in Scandinavia, Denmark, Finland, 
Greenland, and Spitzbergen,'’^ which is chiefly compiled from the^ 
labours of the best-known northern ornithologists, and among 
them especially Prof. Nilsson^s ^ Skandinavisk Fauna ^ (Lund: 
1858), while the papers of Prof. Reinhardt (Ibis, 1861, pp. 1-19) 
and Dr. Malmgren (CEfvers. K. Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. 1863, 
pp. 87-126) are respectively laid under contribution for the 
birds of Greenland and Spitsbergen. The whole has been 
worked up with a good deal of care ; but it contains no small 
number of errors, and some of them grave ones, while the 
author has omitted to notice several valuable articles bearing 
upon the subject. It will, however, be useful to English 
readers, 
Willemoes-Suhm, R. v. Beitriige zur Vogelfauna Nord- 
deutschlands. Zool. Garten, 1865, pp. 76-78. 
