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HOMEYER, EUG. F. VON. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Vogel Ostsibiriens
und des Amur-Landes. J. f. O. 1870, pp. 56-64,
161-175,421-439.
The author's most useful summary of the works of Von Middendorff,
Von Schrenck, and Radde is completed in these three
articles, the whole series of which includes 322 species (Zool.
Rec. vi. p. 35).
KOCH, G. VON. Ornithologische Notizen aus deni Jahre 1869.
Tom. cit. pp. 393,394.
Of local interest only.
KUWERT, A. Ornithologische Notizen. Tom. cit. pp. 203-
206.
Notes made in East Prussia, and chiefly of local interest.
MALMGREN, A. J. Zwei ornithologische Aufsatze. Tom. cit.
pp. 281-305.
A translation of the two papers noticed last year (Zool. Rec.
vi. pp.35, 99).
. Letter from. Ibis, 1870, pp. 148, 149.
Contains the substance of the first of the foregoing papers.
MARCHAND, A. Appendice au Catalogue des Oiseaux observes
dans le Departement d'Eure-et-Loire. R. Z. 1870, p. 139.
Adds six species, Avhich makes the number observed in this
Department 232 {cf. Zool. Rec. v. p. 42).
MOBIUS, K. Ein Besuch des Schleswig'schen Wattenmeeres
und der Insel Sylt im Marz 1870. Zool. Gart. 1870
pp. 133-137.
Contains some good field-notes, particularly on the breeding
of Anas marila.
MUTH, J. P. Die Vogel auf Sicilien. Tom. cit. 1870, pp. 113-
151.
A popular article, containing, however, some very good notes
on some of the birds of Sicily.
QUISTORP, G. Ornitholog. Mittheilungen aus Neu-Vorpommern.
J. f. 0.1870, pp. 207-214.
Field-notes not calling for any special remark.
SABAXAEFF, LEOXIDA. Preavaritelno'i Oscherk Faunoi' Posvonoschnoech
Srednyago Oorala. Bull. Mosc. xiii 1870
pp. 185-197. '
This paper contains preliminary remarks of great interest on
the information respecting the fauna of the Ural, collected by
the author during two journeys thither. He begins by giving a
sketch of the various localities he visited, and then proceeds to