AVES. 
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CXreats of 276 species found within the limits of the district, 
which extends from Plamborough Head, on the Yorkshire coast, 
in the north, to Skegness, in Lincolnshire, in the south, and 
inland as far as the junction of the Ouse and Trent with the 
Humbert) The information as regards migration is valuable. 
/Peilden, H. W. The Birds of the Pseroe Islands. Zool. s. s. 
pp. 3210 ; also separately, pp. 47. 
Adds considerably to our knowledge of^Pseroese birds, the 
author having received much help fetu ytterr H. C. Muller, 
whose excellent paper on the subject Q^id.^edd. 1862, pp. 1- 
78j)is well known. P'he number of species observed is raised 
to 138, of which one {Sturnid<B) is named as new in the sepa- 
rately printed copies^ 
t PiNscH, O. Ueber eine Vogelsammlung aus den Kiisienlandern 
' der cliinesisch-japanischen Meere. Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxii. 
pp. 253-272. 
(Notes on 57 species.^ 
PiscHER, J. VON. Verzeichniss der Vogel des St.-Petersburgen 
^ Kreiscs. J. f. O. 1872, pp. 385-300. 
This welcome addition to what is known of the ornithology of 
Bussiajrecords 147 species, some few doubtfuB^ 
^Pritsch, a. Die Vogel Bohmens. Tom. cit. pp. 366-384. 
rConcludes the paper before noticed (Zool. Eec. viii. p. 32), 
297 species being altogether included. Tables of the resident 
and migratory birds are added, j 
^ Godman, P. Du Cane. Notes on the Resident and Migratory 
Birds of Madeira and the Canaries. Ibis, 1872, pp. 158- 
177, 209-224. 
A valuable paper, embodying the results of previous ob- 
servers, as well as the author's own experience, and (noticing 85 
species, of which one [Columbidae) is ne\Q 
- Gould, J. The Birds of Great Britain. Parts xx., xxi. Lon- 
don : 1872. Polio. 
The customary parts of this work are of more than average 
excellence, Containing several fine plates by Mr. Wolf. ( 
/ Hanf, P. B. Ornithologische Beobachtungen. Verb. z.-b. 
' Wien, xxii. pp. 399-404. 
(In continuation of last year's notes (Zool. Rec. viii. p. 32 ) .) 
ARTiNG, J. E. A Handbook of British Birds, showing the dis- 
tribution of the resident and migratory species in the 
British Islands, with an index to the records of the rarer 
visitants. London: 1872. 8vo, pp. i-xxiv, 1-198. 
This useful book, the object of which is fully explained by its 
