Recent Ornithological Publications. Ill 
10. S. Nilsson. Skandinavisk Fauna, Foglarna, 1858. 
11. M. v. Wright. Finlands Foglar. Helsingfors, 1859 
[Just published]. 
Carpodacus erythrinus , the younger von Nordmann tells us, is 
now common in Southern Finland, although, as his father states, 
that was not the case thirty years ago. It nests every year in 
the Botanical Gardens (at Helsingfors), in the tops of the Maple 
and the Carangana sibirica. The nest consists of thin twigs 
loosely put together. The eggs are white, with a few blackish- 
red spots at the large end. The bird arrives in Helsingfors in 
the middle of May, and in 1857 had fledged young on the 25th 
of June. After having once heard the loud flute-like voice of 
this bird, there will be no difficulty in recognizing it a second 
time, as it conceals itself in the tree-tops. It has a finch-like 
call-cry resembling that of Fringilla chloris. 
The Anser albifrons , said (p. 43) to breed in Lapland, must be 
intended for Anser erythropus sive minutus *. 
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Of the second part of the Report of the Russian exploring 
expedition in Amoorland, containing the Birds f, we have lately 
seen copies, and we hope to be able to give a notice of this im¬ 
portant work at some length in our next Number. 
4. American Publications. 
M. Le Moine's little bookj “on the Ornithology of Canada ” 
appears to have been written with the laudable wish to stimulate 
his fellow-countrymen to show more energy in the cause of 
Natural History, in which, as in material prosperity, their repub¬ 
lican neighbours seem to have left them far behind. 
f * See ‘Ibis,’ 1860, p.404. 
t Reisen und Forschungen im Amurlande in den Jahren 1851-56, im 
Auftrage der Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg; 
ausgefiihrt und in Yerbindung mit mehreren Gelehrten herausgegeben von 
Dr. Leopold von Schrenck. Band i. Zweite Lieferung, Vogel des Amur- 
landes. Mit 7 colorirten Tafeln. St. Petersburg, 186.0. 
X Ornithologie du Canada. Quelques groupes d’apres la nomenclature 
du Smithsonian Institution de Washington. Par J. M. Lemoine. Quebec, 
1860, l part, 96 pp., 12mo. 
