170 Recently publuhed Ormlhologkal Works. [Ibis, 



outliiie-ina|) shows very clearly the exact situation of each 

 collecting-station. 



Stresemanri on the Birds of Macedonia. 



[Avifauna Macedonica. Die ornitliolooischen Ergebnisse der Kor.-ch- 

 uno-sreisen unternommeu iiacli Alazedouieii durch Prof. Dr. Dofleiii und 

 Prof. L. Miiller-Mainz in Ann Jahren 1917 imd 1918. Von Dr. Erwin 

 Stresemann. Pp. xxiv + 270; G pis. Mlinclien (Diiltz), 1920. 8vo.] 



During the occupation of the greater part of Macedonia 

 by the German forces a Survey Commission was formed for 

 tlie zoological exploration of the country, which was up to 

 that time hardly known. Some 3258 bird-skins, repre- 

 senting 168 species and subspecies, were collected by 

 Professors Uollein and Miiller during a period of about 

 sixteen months in 1917 and 1918, and these were all 

 deposited in the State Museum at Munich. 



A very full and complete report on these collections has 

 been drawn up by Dr. Stresemann. Many of the species wore 

 collected in long series of often over 50 specimens. This 

 has enabled him in many cases to give detailed accounts of 

 the development of the different plumages and of the moult. 

 There are also paragraphs on individual and geographical 

 variation, and on distribution and biology or habits in 

 Macedonia, these last being compiled chiefly from Prof. 

 Miiller's notes. A complete list of the specimens of all the 

 species with Ming-measurements and other details is given, 

 and the nomenclature is of the most adi^anced character. 

 We notice only two new names — Galerida cristata muhlei 

 uom. nov. pro G. c. ftrriiginea Miihle for the Crested Lark 

 of Greece, and Budytes fiavus macronyx subsp. n. for the 

 Yellow Wagtail of north-eastern Siberia; but several foruis 

 mentioned in the account of the collection, such as Carduelis 

 c. balcunica, Cettia cetti miilleri, Cinclus cinclus orientalis, 

 Bryobutcs wujor balcanicus, Picas viridis dojleini, have been 

 described as new m a previous publication. Following the 

 description of the collections is a notice of other species 

 recorded from Macedonia, and finally a complete systematic 

 list of all the birds hitherto known Irom that country. 



