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62. Vian on Asiatic Warblers in Heligoland. 



[Notice sur les especes asiatiques du genre Pouillot {Phyllopseuste) 

 capturees dans Tile d'Helgoland. Par J. Vian. Tom. cit. pp. 652-670.] 



In this paper M. Vian discusses the eight rare species of 

 Phylloscopi which have been captured in Heligoland ; but 

 however useful this review may be to those who do not read 

 English, it will be of less service to our readers, who are 

 already familiar with the writings of Mr. Seebohm and 

 others upon the genus which M. Vian misnames. 



63. Vorderman on the Birds of Borneo. 



[Liste des Oiseaux de Borneo. Par A. G. Vorderman. Natuurk. Tijda. 

 voor Nederl. Indie, Deel xlvi. Afl. 3.] 



In this useful compilation the author commences with a 

 list of the publications relating to the ornithology of this huge 

 island, merely the outer shell of which has yet been pecked 

 at by naturalists. The list itself contains the names of 472 

 species, of which Porphyrio indicus, Hy drophasianus chirurgus, 

 Dendrocygna vagans, and Podiceps tricolor have been added 

 to the Boruean catalogue by M. Vorderman. 



64. Zaroudndi and Menzbier on the Birds of the Trans- 

 Caspian Regions. 



[Oiseaux de la contree Trans-Caspienne. Par M. Zaroudnoi, avec 

 preface de M. Menzbier. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, 1885, no. 2.] 



This interesting paper gives an account of the avifauna of 

 the long oasis, Ahal-Teke, which extends from Kizil-Arvad 

 on the west to Gjaouarse on the east, and may be de- 

 scribed as lying between the Kopepete-Dagh range and 

 the desert of Kara-Koum. M. Zaroudnoi's explorations 

 lasted from June to September 1884, during which time he 

 collected 600 specimens, assigned by Dr. Menzbier, with a 

 few reservations, to 184 species. In May 1885 M. Zaroudnoi 

 started on his second voyage, this time for Horosan and 

 Northern Afghanistan ; and it is not improbable that when 

 the results of this expedition are known, they may prove 

 similar to those obtained by Dr. Aitchison, the naturalist of 

 the Afghan Delimitation Commission. 



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