Kecenthj published Ortutholoyical IVurks. 245 



and to increase the list. The systematic arrangement is 

 certainly peculiar, commencing with the Picarise, followed 

 by the Passeres, after which come the Columbse, then 

 Striges and Accipitres, Gallinse, and so on. 



35. Bianchi on a new Shrike. 



[Ueber eiuen neiien Wiirger aus cler Untergattung Otomela {Otomela 

 bogdanoioi) . Von V. Bianchi. Bull. Acad. Imp. d. Sci. St. Petersb. xxx. 

 p. 514 (1886).] 



Otomela bogdanowi was discovered by Herr Nikolski in 

 the province of Astrabad, in Northern Persia. It is allied 

 to O. romanowi [O. phcenicuroides, subsp. r-omanoivi, Bogd.), 

 described in parallel columns with it, which is also found 

 in the same district. 



36. Bianchi on the Birds of the Western Pamir. 



[Zur Ornis des westlicben Auslaufer des Pamir und des Alai. Von V. 

 Bianchi. Bull. Acad. Imp. d. Sci. St. P(5tersb. xxxi. p. 337 (1886).] 



M. Bianchi describes a collection of birds made by M. 

 Grum-Grzimailo, in 1885, in the eastern districts of the 

 Khanate of Bokhara, and placed in his hands by Dr. 

 Strauch. The series consists of 388 specimens (including 10 

 from the same country obtained by Dr. Rigel), which are 

 referred to 136 species. The greater part of the collection 

 was formed in the western outliers of the Pamir and Alai 

 ranges, only 54 specimens being from the low-lying steppes 

 of Eastern Bokhara. The collection adds 8 species to 

 Severtzoff^s previous list of this avifauna (J. f. O. 1875, 

 pp. 168-188). Exact localities, and many interesting notes, 

 are added. 



37. Bogdanow on a new Pheasant. 



[Kurze Bemerkung iiber Phasianus homaroioi, n. sp. Von Prof. M. 

 Bogdanow. BuU. Acad. Imp. d. Sci. St. Petersb. xxx. p. 356 (1886).] 



The new species, Phasianus komarowi, is from the vicinity 

 of Aschabad, where it is brought to the market in winter. 

 It is probably the same as P. principalis Sclater; but c/- 

 Seebohm, supra, p. 172. 



