210 Recent Ornithological Publications. 
tail-feathers differently marked; the latter like H. torquata, but 
larger and paler in colour. 
3. Dutch. 
Works on the ornithology of particular districts of Europe, 
even those that are most frequented by the “ British tourist,” 
are generally so little known in this country that we are glad to 
have the opportunity of directing the attention of our readers 
to the first part of a Fauna of Luxembourg, which has lately 
/Uy appeared from the pen of M. Alphonse de la Fontaine*, and 
/ contains an account of the birds found in that locality as far, 
according to the author’s arrangement, as the end of the order 
“ Passereaux.” The district is that “qui forme l’ancien de- 
partement des Forets et qui constitue une bonne partie des 
departements limitrophes de la Moselle, de la Meuse, des 
Ardennes, de Sambre et Meuse, de l’Ourthe et de la Sarre, et 
qui actuellement est place sous Pautorite de quatre gouverne- 
ments differents, ceux de France, de Belgique, de Prusse et du 
Grand-Duche proprement dit.” For the settlement of doubtful 
points the author says he has had recourse to M. de Selys- 
Longchamps, and the result is a work which, without calling 
for any particular remark from us, shows that in future the 
celebrated name of La Fontaine need not be exclusively associ¬ 
ated with “ Fables.” 
We have to notice—and we need not say with pleasure—two 
more papers of the indefatigable Professor Schlegel, contributed 
by him to the { Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde ’ for 
the past year. 
The first is a “ Description d’un oiseau remarquable et in- 
connu des Naturalistes,” which the author names Charitornis 
albertmce. At first sight this curious form would seem to offer 
some affinity with Streptocitta albicollis, which has usually been 
ranked among the Corvidae; but a further examination shows 
* Faune du Pays de Luxembourg, ou Manuel de Zoologie contenant la 
description des Animaux Vertebres observes dans le Pays de Luxem¬ 
bourg. Par Alphonse de la Fontaine. Luxembourg: 1865 (London, 
Williams and Norgate). 8vo, pp. 152. 
