Recently published Ornithological IVorks. 509 



still to remain uncertain, no specimens actually agreeing 

 with Horsfield's types having been since obtained. The 

 higher peaks of Java require further examination by some 

 enterpiising ornithologist. 



107. Seebohm's 'Birds of Siberia.' 



[The ]}irdrf of Siberia : a llecord of a Naturalist's Vi-its to the Valleys 

 of the Petchora and Yenesei. By Henry Seebohin. London, 1901. 

 8vo. Pp. i-xix, 1-504. Price 12s. net.] 



This volume consists of a reprint, with certain alterations, 

 of the two well-known volumes by our much -deplored friend 

 the late Henry Seebohm, which gave accounts of his 

 journeys to the Petchora and Yenesei Rivers in 1875 and 

 1877 respectively. 



The Editor — in whom we recognise a well-known naturalist 

 and fellow member of our Union — has carried out his some- 

 what difficult task with great ability, retaining almost un- 

 touched the nomenclature and ornithology of the original 

 work, while omitting passages here and there which seemed 

 unnecessary to a combined edition, or in which the infor- 

 mation had been superseded on more accurate observation. 

 In particular many long footnotes on geographical distri- 

 bution have been left out, as well as certain claims to priority, 

 which the author himself would, no doubt, have withdrawn 

 had he lived to carry out his intention of [lersonally superin- 

 tending the reissue of his work. Russian [)hrases, moreover, 

 are translated with greater correctness, while words in that 

 language are printed in the ordinary way, and no longer have 

 the syllables disconnected by hyphens. 



It is not, however, for the ornithological portions alone 

 that we gladly welcome this book in its new form, but also 

 for the excellent idea it gives of the character of the 

 country and of its people ; the description of the breaking 

 up of the ice on the Petchora in particular being a most 

 admirable account of a phenomenon seldom witnessed by 

 l*Airopeans. 



Attention has duly been drawn by the Editor to the dis- 

 covery of the nest and eggs of the Curlew-ISandpiper by 



