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1861, p. 324, and Dr. Hartlaub, “ Bericht,” &c., in Wiegmann’s 
Archiv, 1858, p. 55) to be the last resort of Alca impennis , but 
hitherto no positive information has been received that the bird 
ever occurred there. The three islands called DanelFs CEer are 
the last known spots on the coast of East Greenland until lat. 
69° 15' is reached, the intervening parts never having been sur¬ 
veyed, though land was sighted here and there by Scoresby. 
We may also take this opportunity of saying we think Herr 
Preyer has exaggerated the number of former breeding-places of 
this bird in Iceland. He omits to notice the fact that Professor 
Steenstrup, with apparently good reason, suggests (Yidensk. 
Meddelels. 1855, pp. 115-116) that Herr Preyer’s “ Geirfuglas- 
ker IV.,” mentioned by Olafsen as lying some miles off the 
BrefSamerkrsandr, is really identical with his “ Geirfuglasker 
III.,” stated by Olavius to exist off BrefSalsvik. At all events, 
the former is ignored in the best maps of Iceland, and is not 
laid down even in that which accompanies Herr Preyer’s own 
travels in Iceland. 
Since the above was written, e Heft VI./ which completes the 
volume for 1862, has reached us. What seems most worthy of 
note is the discovery, by the Marquis 0. Antinori, of a species 
of Weaver-bird in the neighbourhood of Alexandria (Egypt), 
which he describes as Estrelda melanorhyncha. Dr. Cabanis also 
identifies our Pipilo albicollis (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 304) with the 
Tanagra rutila of Lichtenstein—rightly enough, we dare say, as 
he has access to the typical specimen in the Berlin Museum. 
We have only lately seen a copy of Dr. Burmeister’s f Beise 
durch die La Plata Staaten**, though the preface to the second 
volume (whereby we learn with regret that the learned author 
has now finally abandoned his native country) is dated two years 
ago. A list of the species of birds met with by Dr. Burmeister 
in the Argentine Republic has been already published in the 
f Journal fur Ornithologie/ and noticed in this Journal f. We 
now, however, have this in a much more complete form in the 
“ Systematische Uebersicht der Thiere des La Platagebietes,” 
which is annexed to the second volume of Dr. Burmeister's 
* 2 vols. 8vo. Halle, 1861. t See Ibis, 1861, p. 200. 
