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the last local Avi-fauna which Dr. Hartlaub may treat in a 
similar manner._ 
A continuation of the third part of “ Museum Heineanum,” 
by Dr Cabanis and Herr F. Heine, jun., lately issued, for an 
early copy of which we are much indebted to Herr Heine, 
completes the enumeration of the Strisores in this fine collection, 
and contains a portion of the Index of genera and species. 
The eighth f Lieferung * of Dr. ReichenbaclFs 1 Handbuch der 
Speciellen Ornithologie 9 completes his account of the Colum¬ 
baria —a group composed of Columbce, the family Cracidce (of 
the order Gallince), and the Cariamas (belonging to the Grallce), 
according to Dr. ReichenbaelFs fantastical arrangement. 
The plates issued herewith form a continuation of the series of 
illustrations of the Trochilidce , a portion of which was published 
some time ago. The work, as far as it is a compilation, is some¬ 
times useful, as one of reference, but we cannot conscientiously 
say much in favour of such portions of it as are founded upon 
original research. _ 
Besides the account of the new Cassowary, to which we have 
already alluded (anted, p. 312), the first number of the f Journal 
fiir Ornithologie 9 for the present year (the last we have received) 
contains an article on the breeding of the Nutcracker by Baron 
Richard Konig-Warthausen, which will be interesting to many 
of our readers. The author seems to think it a well-ascertained 
fact that this bird breeds regularly in the Black Forest *, though 
he has not yet been able to get authentic eggs from this locality 
in spite of many efforts. Baldamus states that it breeds in 
Transylvania; but the only egg brought back by him from his 
expedition into that country proves, according to Baron Konig- 
Warthausen, to be that of a Jay ( Garrulus glandarius). Abbe 
Caire, however, has obtained eggs of the Nutcracker in the 
French Alps, “of undoubted authenticity 99 of which the Baron 
has compared together six examples—four belonging to his own 
* See Landbek’s Systematische Aufzahlung der Vogel Wurtemburg’s, 
p. 19. 
