to Gould's 'Birds of Asia.' 57 



teresting observations were made during the brief stay of 

 the above-named naturalist in Yunnan, and on the route 

 traversed by the expedition through native Burmah. The 

 ornithology of Cochin China is well represented in the Paris 

 Museum ; and Dr. Tiraud has published a useful list of the 

 birds of that country. 



"With the ornithology of China the name of the late Consul 

 Swinhoe will always be inseparably^ connected. Numerous 

 contributions from his pen were published in 'The Ibis/ 

 and two complete lists of the birds of China were issued in 

 the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London •* for 

 1863 and 1871 respectively. In 1877, however, a very com- 

 plete work on Chinese ornithology appeared from the pens of 

 Pfcjre David and Dr. Oustalet, whose book, entitled ' Les 

 Oiseaux de la Chine,' embodies not only Mr. Swinhoe's dis- 

 coveries, but likewise the results of the travels of P^re David 

 throughout China as well as those of Colonel Prjevalsky in 

 Mongolia and Thibet. A complete account of the ornitho- 

 logical observations made by the last-named traveller was 

 also translated from the Russian, and published in the late 

 Mr. Dawson Rowley's ' Ornithological Miscellany.' 



We may here remark on the explorations of Dr. Dybowski 

 and other Russian travellers in the region of Lake Baikal 

 and Eastern Siberia, an account of which has been written 

 by Dr. Taczauowski in the ' Bulletin ' of the French Zoolo- 

 gical Society. As regards Japan, there appeared in 1850 

 the beautiful illustrated work on the Fauna Japonica by 

 Temminck and Schlegel, wherein are many fine pictures of 

 birds, some of them drawn by Professor Schlegel himself, 

 while others are early products of that great zoological 

 draughtsman Joseph Wolf. After that but little was written 

 on the ornithology of the Japanese Islands until 1867, when 

 a list of the birds collected by Mr. Henry Whitely (since 

 celebrated for his explorations in Peru and Guiana) appeared 

 in * The Ibis ; ' but more recently two good field-naturalists. 

 Captain Blakiston and Mr. H. Pryer, have published a list 

 of the Birds of Japan ; and Mr. Seebohm has also devoted 

 some attention to the ornithology of this part of Asia. 



