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mountain-chain and Dschitim-tau flows the Little-Naryn in 

 an almost northern direction from its junction with Great- 

 Naryn. The town Narynskoe is situated on this river at a 

 height of 1920 m. according to Dr. G. Merzbacher. The 

 Naryn is a typical Central- Asiatic river. Having its sources 

 in some of the immense glaciers in central Tian Shan it at 

 last gives birth to the Sir Dar ja. In the neighbourhood of 

 Narynskoe it passes through a valley, the slopes of which 

 are overgrown with conifers. 



Most of the collected birds are from the surroundings of 

 Narynskoe and from the Great-Naryn valley. But some 

 also come from other localities as from the Atbaschi valley 

 and from the environs of Taschkent. Atbaschi is a tributary 

 to Great-Naryn and is flowing through a valley north of the 

 Atbaschi-chain. 



The birds found in this part of Tian Shan are, as is 

 already mentioned, mostly typical Central- Asiatic, but there 

 are also some wide-spread palearctic species and a few mi- 

 gratory-birds from the north. 



Of course this collection does not at all give a complete 

 view of the ornis of Tian Shan, but it may perhaps at all 

 events give some contribution to the study of subspecies in 

 the Central-Asiatic bird-fauna. 



1. Nucifraga caryocatactes rothschildi Hart. 

 Vi 1910 (sex unknown). Narin, at a height of 2470 m. 



2. Sturnus vulgaris loudoni But. 



a) c? 20^3 1910 ^Tarin, at a height of 2140 m. 



b) $ -y-2 1910 » » » » » 2140 » 



c) c? 73 1910 Taschkent. 



a) Wing = 130 mm.; tail=63 mm.; bill=27 mm.; tarsus=28 mm. 



b) » =130 » ; » =69 >> ; » =25 » ; » =27 » 



The starlings found at Naryn belong to the same sub- 

 species which BuTURLiN has discribed from the Ferghana di- 

 strict in Russian Turkestan. They closely ressemble Sturmis 

 vulgaris porphyrojiotus Sha.rpe, but differ from that bird in 



