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Linnean system, (1) Mammalia, (2) Aves, (3) Reptilia, (4) In- 
secta, with distinct Greek and Latin indices to each chapter, and 
appendices on the fabulous creatures. Every student desirous 
of ascertaining at once the knowledge possessed by the father of 
natural history on each species which came under his observa¬ 
tion can thus obtain it at a glance. We can only regret that 
a manual so convenient for scholars in every country should not 
have been rendered more generally available by publication in a 
Latin rather than a Swedish dress. The identification of some 
of the birds may be questioned, and must depend on a careful 
comparison of the existing fauna of Greece and Asia Minor, 
which Lindermeyer, our best authority, has not yet accom¬ 
plished in a satisfactory manner. We should not be disposed, 
ourselves, to transfer the tcvavo? of Aristotle from Petrocossy- 
phus cyaneus to Tichodroma muraria , nor to assign the epithet 
fcopv&aXos to the more northerly Alauda arvensis, probably con¬ 
founded with Galerida crist at a (/copvftos), in preference to the 
conspicuous Melanocorypha calandra. 
4. Portuguese Publication. 
Eor the first time since the institution of < The Ibis/ we have 
to record the appearance of ornithological matter in one of the 
languages of the Spanish Peninsula. Two papers, which claim 
some notice in these pages, have lately been published in Lisbon. 
Of one of them, an article by D. Jose de Souza “ Upon the Birds 
of Portugal”*, we know little more than the title, but we have 
taken steps to get further information concerning it. The second 
publication is a pamphlet in Portuguese, upon the different modes 
of collecting and preparing zoological specimens, by J. V. Bar¬ 
bosa du Bocage, the Director of the Zoological Section of the 
National Museum at Lisbon f. It commences with a sketch of 
the origin and history of the National Museum of Portugal, and 
of its spoliation by the French at the period of the French in¬ 
vasion. This act was accomplished under the superintendence 
* In the ‘Gazeta Medical de Lisboa,’ for July 16, 1861. 
t ‘ Instruccoes praticas sobre o modo de colligir preparar e remetter pro- 
ductos zoologicos para o Museu de Lisboa,’ por J. V. Barbosa du Bocage. 
Lisbon, 1862. 
