354 Recent Ornithological Publications. 
Insectivora have been deprived of commodious nesting-places; 
unavailing regrets from those incessantly exposed to the havocs 
of wood-insects will follow on the disappearance, for years to 
come, of their best and most active allies of the forest.” 
Prof, von Tschudi gives an amusing account of the periodical 
mania for killing birds which every year seizes the Italians, but 
the passage is too long to extract here. The pamphlet has been 
carelessly printed; the scientific names are misspelt most cruelly. 
Even the common names are not always correct. Will the 
British farmer recognize an old acquaintance in the “ Bock Crow 
(Corvus frugilegus) 33 ? We should rather imagine not. 
2. French Publications. 
We must confess to having no fewer than nine Numbers of 
the { Bevue et Magasin de Zoologie ' that have hitherto received 
no attention from us. Those for July and August in the past 
year contain M. Jules Verreaux's translation of Mr. Alfred 
Newton's pamphlet on Egg-collecting, which was formerly 
noticed by us (Ibis, 1860, p. 415); and we trust, with M. 
Guerin-Meneville, that its publication in French will be found 
of advantage to the oologists of that nation. Our German 
brethren have already for some two years had the benefit of the 
hints it contains, as it was translated by Dr. Baldamus in the 
‘ Journal fiir Ornithologie' for 1860; and separately printed 
copies of it in that language may be had from the publisher's 
agents in London, Messrs. Williams and Norgate, for circulation 
among the correspondents of English oologists. M. J. Vian has 
a “ Notice sur quelques Oiseaux d'Europe,'' which is illustrated 
by a plate representing the eggs, chick, and young in its first 
plumage of Limosa cinerea , the specimens having been obtained 
from the Bussian province of Archangel, where it breeds. The 
first article in the f Bevue' for this year is by M. 0. DesMurs, and 
consists of a “ Notice sur 1'oeuf de YAlca impends, 33 to which are 
appended two plates, from his own designs, of a couple of these 
rarities which were formerly in his possession, and now, with 
the rest of his collection, form part of the magnificent Museum 
at Philadelphia. We do not quite agree with the author that 
this egg “a ete jusqu'ici tres-imparfaitement represente,'' un- 
