AVES. 
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Tristram, H. B. On tlie Ornitliology of Palestine, Part V., 
Ibis, 1867, pp. 73-97, pi. i. ; Part VI., tom. cit. pp. 363-371, 
pL vii. 
A continuation of the articles noticed previously (Zool. Bee. 
ii. pp. 67, 68, iii.p. 53). PartV. contains an excellent account of 
the Sylviidai (of which three new species are described) and 
especially of the genera Saxicola and Ruticilla, while Part VI. 
treats of the MuscicapidcBt Hirundinid(Sy Laniidmi Sturnidee, Em- 
berizidcB and some of the Frmgillidm. The value of oological 
characters in determining the diflPerent groups of Sylviidai are 
particularly dwelt upon. The plates represent Bessornis alHgu- 
laris and Passer moahiticus. 
— — . The Natural History of the Bible : being a Beview of 
the Physical Geography, Geology, and Meteorology of the 
Holy Land ; with a description of every Animal and Plant 
mentioned in Holy Scripture. Londoii : 1867. 12mo* 
pp. 516. 
A popularly written but extremely well-executed and succinct 
account of the subject, the ornithological portion of which ' 
occupies a large space (pp. 156-253) and is illustrated by a 
good many woodcuts, some of them representing species not 
often figured before, as Ammoperdix heyi (p. 227) and P ter odes 
senegalensis (p. 229). (Cf. Ibis, 1868, p. 219.) [See under 
Mam MALI A,^^ p. 3.] 
Turnbull, W illiam P. The Birds of East Lothian and a por- 
tion of the adjoining counties. Glasgow : 1867. Boy. 8vo, 
pp. 48, figs. 
None of the 235 species included seem to require any further 
notice here. {Cf. Ibis, 1868, pp. 373, 374.) 
Whitely Junior, Henry. Notes on Birds collected near Ha- 
kodadi in Northern Japan. Ibis, 1867, pp. 193-211, 
pi. iii. 
The locality having been previously described by Capt. Blakis- 
ton (Ibis, 1862, pp. 312-314), the author says little of it, but 
enumerates 98 species, of which he collected specimens. A few 
corrections of synonymy are made. The plate represents Gar- 
rulus hrandtij Hartl. (B. Z. 1845, p. 52) . 
Wien, — . Ornithologische Miscellen. Journ. fiir Orn. 1867, 
pp. 82-85. 
Observations chiefly of loeal interest. 
ETHIOPIAN BEGION. 
Antinori Orazio. Beschreibung und Verzeichniss, u. s. w. 
Journ. fiir Orn. 1867, pp. 94-106. 
A continuation of Dr. Hartmann’s translation before men- 
tioned by us (Zool. Bee. ii. p. 69, and iii. p. 53). It is still far 
