212 Recent Ornithological Publications. 
4. Danish. 
It is so very gratifying to find an illustrious naturalist like Pro¬ 
fessor Steenstrup bringing his powers of observation to the aid 
of our branch of science, that we willingly go back to a period of 
more than three years to call our readers* attention to a short 
notice* communicated by him to the publications of the Natural- 
History Union of Copenhagen in 1863 respecting the preference 
shown by the Goldfinch, Carduelis elegans, for the pith of 
willow-, lime-, and thorn-boughs, and the mode in which the 
bird procures it. This is described as being effected by pick¬ 
ing off the bud, and then stripping the bark—an operation in 
which the bird's longicone- beak is a very apt tool. 
5. Norwegian. 
Herr Collett, whose work on the birds of the Christiania 
district was last year noticed in our pages (Ibis, 1865, p. 227), 
has kindly forwarded us a copy of his f Zoological and Botanical 
Observations in Gudbrandsdal and Dovre't, containing lists of 
the birds which occur in the neighbourhood of Lillehammer 
and Dovre, two important stations on the grand trunk road of 
Norway, and pretty well known to all English travellers in that 
country. It does not appear to us that the author's remarks 
call for any particular comment; but several localities for the 
less common species are indicated with more or less precision, 
so as to be useful to any person visiting Norway for the first 
time. Of our own knowledge we can add a species to the 
list of Dovre-fjeld birds; for we remember one of a fine pair of 
Tot anus fuscus falling to the gun of our companion, and into the 
water of a half-frozen lake by the road-side, which was so cold 
that his dog, after one plunge, declined to have anything more to 
do with the business. 
* lagttagelse om Stillidsens (Fringilla carduelis, Linn.) Forkjaerlighed 
for Grenmarv og Maaden, hvorpaa den forstaaer at Skaffe sig denne. Af 
Prof. J. J. S. Steenstrup. (Naturhist. Foren. Yidensk. Meddelelser, 4 
Marts, 1863.) 
t Zoologisk-Botaniske Observationer fra Gudsbrandalen og Dovre. 
Af Robert Collett, Stud. jur. Christiania (Johan Dahl) : 1865. 8vo, 
pp. 64. 
