160 Recent Ornithological Publications. 
as H. Gatke supposes, it having already occurred more than 
once in the British Isles *. At p. 424, a list of 23 rare species 
obtained in Heligoland by the writer is given, the greater part 
of which are new to the fauna of Europe. (5.) H. Aug. v. 
Pelzeln’s list of birds obtained in Madagascar by the late 
Madame Ida Pfeiffer. 
The division containing the Birds of H. Schlegel and J. A. 
Herklots* ‘ Fauna van Nederland ’ f is now complete, and forms 
a thick duodecimo volume of 700 pp., illustrated by pretty little 
figures of all the birds of Holland. 
We have only lately met with a copy of Hofmanns work on 
the Northern Ural if, being the Report of the exploring expedition 
sent out in 1847-50 by the Imperial Geographical Society to 
that country. The second volume contains a list of birds col¬ 
lected or observed, with remarks. Seventy species are enume¬ 
rated, but nothing of particular interest is noted. 
IV. American Publications. 
The tenth volume of the Pacific R. R. Reports § contains the 
separate zoological Reports of the several expeditions under the 
commands of Lieut. E. G. Beckwith, Lieut. A. W. Whipple, 
Lieut. J. G. Parke, Lieut. R. S. Williamson, and Lieut. H. L. 
Abbott. Amongst them will be found the field-notes of the 
different observers upon the birds collected during their ex¬ 
plorations, illustrated with plates of the species not previously 
figured. The several articles are as follows:—(I.) Upon the 
birds collected on the survey of the 38th, 39th, and 41st 
parallels, by Prof. Baird: (2.) Upon the birds collected on the 
route of the 38th parallel, by Dr. C. B. R. Kennerly : (3). Upon 
* Yarrell’s Brit. B. ed. 3, and Suppl. to ed. 2. 
t Fauna van Nederland door H. Schlegel en J. A. Herklots. Leyden, 
1851-59. 
X Das nordliche Ural und das Kusten-gebirge Paechoi, &c. St. Peters¬ 
burg, 1856, 2 vols. 4to. 
§ Reports of Explorations and Surveys to ascertain the most practicable 
and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific 
Ocean. Vol. x. Washington, 1859. 
