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Our friend Mr. D. G. Elliot has issued the first part of his 
f Birds of North America '*, which is to contain life-sized figures 
of all the species not included in Audubon's great work. This 
contains beautifully coloured representations, with accompanying- 
letterpress, of Haliaetus albicilla , Campy lor hynchus affinis , Co- 
lymbus adamsi , Cardinalis igneus , and Ombria psittacula. The 
first of these species, it may be remarked, is perhaps not strictly 
American (cf. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 731); but as Mr. Elliot intends 
to annex Greenland for the purposes of his work, he is of course 
quite justified in including it. 
Since we last noticed Professor Baird's f Review of American 
Birds' (Ibis, 1865, p. 534), we have received eight sheets and a 
quarter more of it, all issued in May and June of the present 
year. As we before stated, we do not profess to criticize this 
work at present. The author has introduced the very praise¬ 
worthy plan of figuring in outline the most characteristic fea¬ 
tures of very many of the nearly allied species—a plan which 
cannot fail to be of the utmost utility in such difficult groups as 
the Vireonidce for example. Indeed without these figures it 
would be almost hopeless to attempt to make out the numerous 
species which have such a close resemblance to one another. We 
trust that sufficient sheets to make a volume will soon appear, 
so that it may be generally accessible to the public, which we 
have been told is not the case at present. 
Mr. Cassin has issued a second number of his f Fasti Orni- 
thologise' (Proc. Acad. N. S. Philadelphia, March 1866), which, 
we are glad to say, is not so revolutionary in its results as 
the first [cf. Ibis, 1865, p. 106), for it would seem that the 
name of only one species is affected by it. ‘ Der Naturforscher,' 
a magazine published at Halle from 1774 to 1804, and edited 
by Schreber and Walch, is the subject of this paper. We trust 
that the next treasure disinterred by our excellent friend may be 
of the same harmless character. 
* The Birds of North America. By D. G. Elliot, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 
Part I. New York : published by the author, 27 West Thirty-third Street, 
1866. Imp. folio. 
