324 Recent Ornithological Publications. 
clades, which we alluded to ( antea , p. 107) as published in f Nau- 
mannia* for 1858, in the first part of an interesting brochure, 
entitled “ Fauna der Cycladen In the second part of this 
book we are promised a figure of the new Falcon (Falco dichrous ), 
discovered by the author in these islands. 
Professor Carl J. Sundevall, of Stockholm, has courteously 
forwarded to us the first five numbers of his f Svenska FoglarnafP 
We beg to call the attention of those who are interested in 
European Ornithology to this work, the most recent authority 
on the birds of Scandinavia. Reduced figures, nicely drawn, 
and coloured sufficiently accurately for identification, are given 
of all the species. 
Professor Sundevall has also sent us separate copies of a 
valuable paper which he has lately contributed to the ‘ Transac¬ 
tions * of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Stockholm, entitled 
“ Kritisk Framstallning af Fogelarterna uti aldre ornithologiska 
arbetenj.^ It consists of critical remarks on two “ classical ” 
works on Ornithology, Sparman’s ‘ Museum Carlsonianum/ 
and Le Vaillant* s 'Oiseaux d*Afrique.* These are of great 
value, the notes on the former being often founded on examina¬ 
tion of the type-specimens now in the Museum of Stockholm. 
Being written in Latin, they are rendered more generally 
accessible. Professor SundevalPs great knowledge of South 
African Ornithology renders his remarks on Le Vaillant of the 
highest interest. He states broadly (what we have long con¬ 
sidered, and is now well known, to be the case), that Le Vaillant 
has described and figured as South African many birds which 
really belong to very different countries, and never occur there at 
all; and, not only this, but has entered into long details re¬ 
specting their habits and manners, as observed by himself. Out 
of the 284 species contained in Le Vaillant* s great work. 
Prof. SundevalPs summary gives 134 only as well-determined 
South African, 9 imperfectly determined, and 10 doubtful species. 
No less than 60 are placed in the category of “ Aves pseudo- 
* Leipzig, 1858, Voigt and Gunther, 116 pp., sewn. 
t Svenska Foglarna, med text af Professor Carl J. Sundevall: teeknade 
och lithographierade af Peter Akerlund. Stockholm, 1856—1858. 
t Kon. Vet. Akad. Handl., Band ii. No. 3 (1857). 
