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work, which is absolutely indispensable to the ornithologist, 
and promises to make very great additions to our knowledge of 
the groups of which it treats. 
4. Russian Publications. 
The lately issued Bulletins of the Imperial Academy of Sciences 
of St. Petersburg contain some communications by Dr. L. von 
Schrenck on the most recent discoveries of the well-known 
botanical traveller, Maximovicz, in Eastern Asia. The first of 
these relates to Herr Maximovicz^ collections and observa¬ 
tions made whilst on the river Ussuri, in Southern Arnoor- 
land*. 
Skins of Tetrao tetrix, from the Ussuri, show no appreciable 
difference from European examples. A new species to the 
Fauna of Amoorland has been obtained in the beautiful Cedar- 
bird, Bombycilla phcenicoptera , hitherto only known as coming 
from Japan. A single female specimen of this bird, shot by 
Herr Maximovicz on the Ussuri, in the month of April, agrees 
well with Japanese examples. Besides these species specially 
adverted to, Dr. L. von Schrenck gives a list of between thirty 
and forty other birds, collected by Herr Maximovicz at the 
Russian post, Bussewa, on the Ussuri (45^° N. L.), where that 
energetic collector passed the spring of 1860. 
The following numbers of the same publication contain a long 
and interesting letter t from Herr Maximovicz to Dr. von 
Schrenck, giving his personal narrative of adventures on the 
Ssungari, or Ussuri, with a few zoological and botanical notices 
interspersed. 
5. American Publications. 
Mr. Coues continues his labours on American ornithology in 
the * Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila¬ 
delphia/ The groups now selected are worked out in the same 
* Zoologische Nachrichten vom Ussuri und von der Siidkiiste der 
Mandshurei, nach Sammlungen und brieflichen Mittheilungen des Herrn 
Maximovicz, zusammengestellt von Dr. Leop. v. Schrenck. Bull. Ac. Imp. 
Sc. St. Petersbourg, iv. p. 180. 
t Nachrichten vom Ssungari-Fluss, &c. Bull. Ac. Imp. Sc. St. Peters¬ 
bourg, iv. p. 224. 
