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specimens or entered in his Journals. From these, Herr GrilFs 
paper has been drawn up, and in a manner well deserving of 
imitation,—Professor Sundevall supplying the diagnoses of the 
new species of birds, which are, Bradypterus victorini and B. 
sylvaticus, both obtained at Knysna. 
Yictorin himself unhappily died of consumption soon after his 
return to his native country, at the age of twenty-four years. 
Herr Grill very properly remarks, in his introductory note to 
this communication, that “ the Bird-fauna of the Cape colony 
not having hitherto been separated from that of Caffre-land, and 
Le Vaillant in his f Oiseaux d’Afrique’ having still more con¬ 
fused our knowledge of the subject by mixing up a number of 
species from Australia, India, Madagascar, America, &c.*, every 
collection, with accurately given localities, and notes made on 
the spot, is of the greatest weight.” Such a collection was 
Victorinas: it is stated to have been made “with extraordinary 
care and skill,”—every specimen being not only beautiful and 
well prepared, but marked with the date, locality, sex, colour 
of the eyes and feet, dimensions, and other explanatory circum¬ 
stances. In addition to this, he kept, as has been before men¬ 
tioned, very compendious journals, chiefly written in English, 
partly under the name of “Zoological Notes,” and partly under 
that of “Day Book.” His early death is assuredly well described 
as a severe loss to science. 
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Dr. L. von Schrenck’s work on the Birds of Amoorland, of 
which we have given the title in our last Number (p. Ill), is a 
most valuable contribution to our knowledge of the geographical 
distribution of the species belonging to the Palsearctic Avifauna, 
and requires a few remarks from our pen. We must premise 
that Dr. v. Schrenck was placed in command of a scientific 
expedition for the exploration of the newly acquired Russian 
territory on the Amoor, sent out by the Imperial Academy of 
Sciences of St. Petersburg in 1854. The species treated of in 
this work are mainly such as came under Dr. v. Schrenck’s 
personal observation during his two years’ sojourn in that country, 
with the addition of those collected by Herr Maack, who made 
* Kongl. Vet. Akad. Handl., Band ii. No. .3 (1857): ‘ Ibis,’ 1859, p. 324. / 
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