358 Recent Ornithological Publications. 
‘ Travels/ We have also many valuable notes on distribution, 
habits, &c., both appended to the account of each species and 
diffused throughout the narrative. The ornithology of La Plata 
is, naturally enough, very peculiar. The forms are nearly entirely 
such as are fitted to inhabit the vast pampas of which the greater 
portion of the republic consists, and with which the life-like 
sketches of Head and Darwin have made English readers long 
ago familiar. The species enumerated in Dr. Burmeister*s 
‘ Uebersicht * are 263, viz.— 
Rapaces. 
Scansores . 
Insessores:— 
Strisores 
Clamatores 
Canorse . 
Columbse . 
Rasores . . 
Currentes . 
Grallse . 
Natatores . 
We see by this summary how far inferior in richness of species 
is La Plata to the southern provinces of Brazil, where within a 
much smaller area Dr. Burmeister met with 810 species of birds. 
The results of three years* travels in La Plata have not furnished 
means of ascertaining the existence of even one-third of this 
number. 
The most remarkable discovery of Dr. Burmeister in the class 
of birds during his three years* expedition in La Plata was cer¬ 
tainly the new Cariama, which Dr. Hartlaub has named, after 
its discoverer, Dicholophus burmeisteri. Other fine novelties are 
Geobcemon rufipennis and Saltatricula multicolor , both note¬ 
worthy additions to the class of birds. 
4. Dutch Publications. 
The second livraison of the ‘ Revue Methodique et Critique* 
of the collections of the Dutch National Museum of Natural 
History at Leyden contains the completion of the catalogue of 
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