90 Mr. H. E. Dresser's Notes on 



of this group, and in placing the non-arboreal speeies in the 

 separate genus of Milvayo ; but Mr. Sharpe has united both 

 under the head oi Ibycter, influenced, no doubt, by the absence 

 of any very trenchant generic characters by which the distinc- 

 tion of the two groups might be defined. 



Mr. Sharpe comprises the genus Cariama amongst the 

 Polyborinse, but has not stated his reasons for this arrange- 

 ment, which, I think, is to be regretted. It is, of course, 

 very possible that the position assigned by Mr. Sharpe 

 to this abnormal genus is the correct one, though I confess 

 that I have grave doubts as to that being the case ; but in 

 the absence of any explanation of Mr. Sharpe's views on the 

 question, I do not consider it desirable here to discuss it. 



[To be continued.] 



V. — Notes on Severtzoff's 'Fauna of Turkestan' {Turkes- 

 tanskie Jevotnie). By H. E. Dresser. 



In the Transactions of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of 

 Moscow, vol. viii., a most important article on the fauna of 

 Turkestan has been published by Mr. N. A. Severtzoflf, and 

 has also been issued as a separate work under the title of 

 " Vertikalnoe e Gorozontalnoe Raspredalenie Turkestanskie 

 Jevotnie'^ (Moscow, 1873), of which a copy has been sent to 

 me by Mr. Severtzoflf. Unfortunately the entire work is 

 written in Russian, a language, to say the least of it, almost 

 unknown to ornithologists of other countries. Having, 

 thanks to the assistance rendered by Mr. Carl Craemers, made 

 a translation of all that relates to ornithology, I give the fol- 

 lowing extracts, which I trust may be of use to working or- 

 nithologists, more especially as several new species are de- 

 scribed by Mr. Severtzoff. 



The range of the various species inhabiting or visiting Tur- 

 kestan is carefully given in tabular form, divided into two 

 sections, the first comprising the horizontal range, and being 

 divided into four districts, viz. : — 



I, The north-eastern district, comprising Semiratchje, Issik- 

 kul, the upper Narin, Acksay, Kopal, and Vernoe. 



