ORNITHOLOGY IN 1851. 
before the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh. Lanius excubitor, 
Bombycilla garrula, Picus major , were killed in Roxburghshire. — 
On Cephalopterus omatus . By Alfred R. Wallace. From 
Proceedings (1850) of Zoological Society. 
The Zoologist , a Popular Miscellany of Natural History , con- 
ducted by Edward Newman, F.L.S., Z.S., &c. 8yo. Yol. ix. The 
volume has been again concluded. There are few ornithological 
papers, but a large amount of notices and memoranda of the occur- 
rence of migratory species, and of rare birds, which the increased 
attention brings more frequently to light. — Notes on Observations 
in Natural History during a Tour in Norway, by the Rev. A. C. 
Smith, M. A., concludes the ornithological portion, and gives some 
notices of the habits of the birds. The common partridge was not 
observed north of Christiana. The little Totanus hypoleucus, C£ when 
flitting about the mountain streams, frequently perched on the tops 
of the larch trees, as here it is wont to do on some rail or post. 
The foreign birds recorded as killed in Britain, such as Orpheus 
polyglottis , and Vidua crysonotus , we can only view as escaped spe- 
cimens. There are numerous references to the occurrence of mi- 
gratory species, such as Ruticilla tithys , Alauda cristatus , Motacilla 
neglecta , &c., tending to show that they are not so very uncommon 
as was supposed. The Rev. Mr. Smith, Monquhitter, records a 
specimen of the Stork having been killed in Aberdeenshire in 1837-8. 
The little gull has been killed at Lewes, Wester-super-Mare, and 
Derbyshire. The occurrence of the Black Woodpecker, P. martius, 
near Safron, Walbeck, in 1847, is recorded. 
The Naturalist, a Popular Monthly Magazine, illustrative of the 
Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms. Conducted by Bever- 
ley R. Morris, Esq. A. B., M. D., T. C. D., &c.— Another perio- 
dical, purposing to convey natural history in a popular manner, 
contains short papers, reviews and notices of books, and a large 
portion of anecdote and memoranda. The difficulty in all perio- 
dicals of this kind, is that of selection, and by so doing, the risk 
of disobliging correspondents and subscribers. The great propor- 
tion of short contributions are admitted, and the mass contains 
articles of various degrees of importance. In the first number, 
there is a paper on the submergence of birds by the editor, and ii 
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