118 Recent Ornithological Publications. 
to the due performance of his task. They seem to manage 
things better abroad. One popular work, by an ornithologist 
of the very first rank, has been noticed over and over again in 
this Journal. We have now to mention another and more am¬ 
bitious attempt *, equally well carried on, by an equally able 
naturalist, in the work whose title we transcribe below. Osten¬ 
sibly a description of the vivarium of the flourishing Zoological 
Society at Amsterdam, the ‘ Dierentuin ’ contains a very good 
general history of the class Aves , embellished with fair en¬ 
gravings representing, if we are not mistaken, some species of 
birds which have not hitherto been figured. A book-maker in 
want of a subject might do much worse than translate this work, 
and might make arrangements with the brothers Van Es for the 
use of the woodcuts, so as to bring the whole out in England. 
4. Russian. 
We have at last been able to examine the work in which Herr 
Radde has recorded the results of his travels in Siberia f, and 
a very valuable volume it is. Here we must content ourselves 
with the briefest notice of it, as to do justice to it would indeed 
require a review of much greater length than we could afford 
space for. The book is indispensable to all who busy themselves 
with the ornithology of any parts of Europe and Asia; and since 
it has formed the subject of an article in a recent number of the 
‘ Natural History Review/ in which article we trace the pen of 
the greatest master of the subject of ornithological distribution, 
we are the less concerned at not being able to say as much of 
Herr Radde's labours as we should have wished. Two new 
species are described in the work,—(1) Sylvia (Phyllopneuste) 
schwarziy which, judging from the figure, appears to us to be 
rather a- Locustella; and (2) Anas ( Fuligula) baeri , which seems 
to be a hybrid—a possibility suggested indeed, though contro¬ 
verted, by the author (p. 376). The plate represents this last 
* De Dierentuin, van het Koninklijk Zoologisch Genootschap Natura 
Artis Magistra te Amsterdam. De Vogels. Gescherst door Prof. H. 
Schlegel. Amsterdam. 4to. 
t Reisen im Siiden von Ost-Sibirien in den Jaliren 1855-1859. Von 
Gustav Radde. Band ii. Die Festlands-Ornis des siidostlichen Sibi- 
yiens. St. Petersburg : 1863. 4to. 
