204 Recent Ornithological Publications. 
may be the means of gratifying Dr. Baldamus’ not unnatural 
wish, that two of our most active recent workers in this depart¬ 
ment will make public their discoveries more fully and more 
widely than can be done by putting them into auction-cata¬ 
logues. The third part is occupied with an account of the 
meeting of the German Ornithological Society at Harzburg, on 
the 27th of June last and following days. Twenty-eight mem¬ 
bers were present. The account of the proceedings, and the 
papers presented to the meeting, which follow, will be read with 
interest by all lovers of ornithology. We must call particular 
attention to Dr. Blasius^ remarks on “ doubtful species of the 
European Bird-fauna.” The next meeting of the Society com¬ 
mences on the Wednesday in Whitsuntide week (June 15th) of 
the present year, at Stuttgardt. 
The number of Wiegmamds f Archiv* containing Dr. Hart- 
laub’s “ Bericht liber die Leistungen in der Naturgeschichte der 
Vogel wahrend des Jahres 1857” reached this country soon 
after the publication of the first Number of ‘ The Ibis/ It must 
be studied by every one who wishes to know what is going on in 
Ornithology. At p. 305 of the first volume of the same Jour¬ 
nal for 1858 will be found the characters of a new Cormorant 
(Graculus elegans) in an article by Dr. R. A. Philippi, entitled 
“ Beschreibung neuer Wirbelthiere aus Chili.” 
By Dr. HartlauVs ( Bericht ’ our attention has been called to 
Dr. L. Buvry’s “ Mittheilungen aus Algerien,” published in the 
‘ Zeitschrift fur allgemeine Erdkunde* for 1857. The author 
gives a general review of the ‘^Ornis” of this region, which 
should be consulted by those who are now occupying them¬ 
selves with Algerian ornithology. His promised book, ‘ Die 
Vogel Algeriens in kritischer Uebersicht/ has not yet, we believe, 
made its appearance. 
At a subsequent page of the same Journal (p. 504) will be 
found some account of the proceedings of H. Radde, the Natu¬ 
ralist attached to the East-Siberian expedition of the Russian 
Geographical Society. In 1855 he was on the shores of Lake 
Baikal. In the spring of 1856 he reached the outposts of 
Kulusutajewsk, and had collected 100 birds at the end of the 
month, among which he mentions Syrrhaptes paradoxus. In 
