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illustrated work, ‘ Die Eier der Europaischen Vogel/ Though 
the figures cannot, in our opinion, compete with those of Mr. 
Hewitson, they possess considerable merit, and are accompanied 
by a text containing accurately-written notes on the propagation 
of the different species, in which the author has obtained the 
assistance of Herr L. Brehm and Herr W. Paessler. The low 
price of this book—each 4to part of 8 plates and text only 
costing 12 shillings—ought to secure it an extensive sale. 
The f Sitzungsberichte* of the Academy of Sciences of Vienna 
for January last contain another important contribution to S. 
American ornithology from the industrious pen of Herr August 
von Pelzeln: it relates to new species of the genera Synallaxis, 
Anabates , and Xenops in the Imperial Collection, and is accom¬ 
panied by extracts from the late Johann Natterer*s notes on the 
Furnariince and Synallaxina which he met with in Brazil. No 
less than 20 species of Synallaxis and 17 of Anabates, in all 
upwards of 50 birds of these two subfamilies, were collected by 
that indefatigable naturalist. 
The fifth number of Cabanis* f Journal fur Ornithologie,* 
dated “ September 1858,” was delivered in London on the 5th of 
January last. [We venture to hope that it will not be four months 
before the present part of f The Ibis* reaches Berlin!] It 
contains original articles by Max. Prinz zu Wied, on the birds 
noticed during his travels in N. America; by Hr. Carl Bolle, 
on a new Finch from Western Africa ( Crithagra hartlaubi), and 
some general notes by F. Boie. There are also some further 
interesting details concerning the nesting of the Lyre-bird (Me- 
nura superba), by Herr Becker, of Melbourne, S. A., and other 
shorter papers. Three nests and three eggs of the Lyre-bird 
were taken in the Yarra-Yarra mountains, near a station about 
36 miles from Melbourne, in August 1857, by Mr. F. Williams. 
The egg of this species was first described and figured in the 
f Journal fur Ornithologie* for 1856 (p. 132, pi. 2. fig. 18). 
The 6th heft of the ‘Journal* (for November 1858) is not yet 
arrived! 
Of ‘Naumannia* we have Parts ii. and iii. for last year. In 
Part ii. is a summary of the progress made in our knowledge 
of European oology, by the Editor. We hope that ‘ The Ibis* 
