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head, now in the Museum of Marseilles. But we cannot regard 
the S. Victoire Eagle [Aquila harthelemyi) as being really dif¬ 
ferent from Aquila chrysa'etos, and we believe we may state that 
Mr. Gurney, who has living specimens in his possession, is 
nearly of the same opinion. 
It is stated that Dr. Pucheran, of the Jardin des Plantes, has 
lately published in the ‘ Institut' a paper " sur les caracteres 
generates de POrnithologie des lies Sandwich,” read before the 
Societe Philomathique; but we have not yet seen it. 
The last five numbers of the f Revue et Magasin de Zoo- 
logie' for last year and the first for this year have been re¬ 
ceived. The papers relating to ornithology are (p. 346), "Note 
sur les Lamprotornince ” (quaere Lamprotornithines ?), by M. Hart- 
laub. Dr. Hartlaub has, we are glad to say, in preparation a 
complete monograph of this difficult group of birds. " De¬ 
scription de deux nouvelles especes d'Oiseaux decouvertes dans 
le Sahara Algerien,” par le Capitaine Loche: Stoparola deserti 
and Malurus saharee. These appear to be the Sylvia deserticola 
and Drymoica striaticeps of Mr. Tristram, described in our last 
Number; but the figure of the former is barely recognizable. 
"Description d'un Perroquet nouveau,” Microsittace souancii 
(p. 437), and " Observations sur le Perroquet mercenaire de 
Tschudi” (p. 513), by M. Jules Verreaux. The article called 
"Observations d'Ornithologie,” by Dr. Pucheran, is in continua¬ 
tion of that author's valuable notes on the types of the Museum 
of Paris. 
M. de Saussure's series of " Observations sur les Moeurs de 
divers Oiseaux de Mexique,” in the ‘Bibliotheque Uni vers el,' 
published at Geneva, are remarkably interesting. The first of 
these (Bibl. Univ. 1858, i. p. 331) relates to the singular habits 
of a Woodpecker ( Colaptes rubricatus, sive meocicanus), which 
stores up its acorns in the stems of aloes [Agave); the second 
(vol. iii. p. 14), to the habits of Humming-birds [Trochilidce ); 
the third [ibid. p. 168), to the Vultures; and the fourth and fifth 
(1859, vol. iv. p. 22), to the Trupials, Trogons, Anis, &c. 
3. German Publications. 
We have before us the fourth part of F. W. J. Baedeker's 
