ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. 



BAND 5. N:o 9. 



Notes 011 Bircls collected by Mr. Otto Bamberg 

 in Southern Transbaicalia and Northern 



Mongolia. 



By 

 EINAR LÖNNBERG. 



With 9 Figures in the text. 

 Read january 13th 1909. 



Last year Mr. Otto Bamberg of Weimar made a col- 

 lecting expedition chiefly to Northern Mongolia and the ad- 

 joining parts of TransbaicaHa. During this expedition, 

 I regret to say, Mr. Bamberg was badly hurt.by falHng from 

 his horse. This accident unfortunately prevented him from 

 making the collection as great as it otherwise undoubtedly 

 would ha ve been. The birds which have been entrusted 

 to the present author för examination and determination 

 are, however, of great interest as they have been collected 

 during the breeding season in that little kno^vn, and partly 

 from an ornithological point of view unknown country. In 

 fact, Mr. Bamberg maintains that .practically every species 

 represented in the collection* really breeds in the neigh- 

 bourhood where it has been collected. This adds, of course, 

 a great deal to the scientific value of the collection which 

 thus gives an idea of the ornis of Northern Mongolia and it 

 proves also that this country is inhabited by some indige- 

 nous subspecies as well. 



^ The greater part of the same now belongs to the Xatural History 

 Museum of Stockhohn. 



Arkiv fur zoologi. Band 5. X:o 9. 1 



