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less indeed he only means that a very limited number of ex¬ 
amples have been figured; for Mr. Hewitson’s three plates in 
the different editions of his work are as near perfection as we 
could wish. M. DesMurs states that he once had a third spe¬ 
cimen also, which we presume from what he says was the origi¬ 
nal of two of the three figures given by Thienemann. What has 
subsequently become of it we are not informed. In the last 
Number of the f Revue 3 we have received, that for March of the 
present year, M. Marchand commences some observations on the 
“ Poussins des Oiseaux d’Europe couverts de duvet a la sortie 
de Fceuf.” They are illustrated by two plates, one representing 
the chick of Recurvirostra avocetta, the other that of Phalaropus 
hyperboreus. M. Marchand has reason to complain of his artist, 
the latter plate being extremely unlike the original. But we 
must record our satisfaction that the ranks of French ornitholo¬ 
gists have been swelled by the addition of these two gentlemen 
(MM. Vian and Marchand), and we beg leave to congratulate 
them on their successful debut . They have brought into pro¬ 
minence a branch of ornithology which has hitherto received 
very little attention; and we hope that they will continue their 
labours in the same field. 
3. German Publications. 
The f Monatsbericht’ of the Royal Academy of Sciences of 
Berlin for March 1863 contains a notice by Dr. W. Peters of a 
new form of Thrush, allied to Bessonornis , from the Mozambique, 
for which the name Cichladusa is proposed. The typical species 
is C. arquata , discovered by Dr. Peters near Sena, on the Zam¬ 
besi. A second species of the same form in the Berlin Museum 
is Heuglin’s Crateropus guttatus, from Aniop in N.E. Africa 
(8° N.L.). _ 
Since we last noticed our well-known and excellent contem¬ 
porary, the ‘ Journal fur Ornithologie 3 (Ibis, 1862, p. 381), we 
have received the fourth and fifth parts of last year’s volume, 
and the first of that for the present year. The principal papers 
contained in them seem to be Dr. Th. 0. Heuglin’s “Contributions 
to the Ornithology of North-eastern Africa,” Lieutenant Alexander 
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