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two previous volumes, and a good many subspecies not 

 mentioned in Hartert^s Vog. pal. Fauna are discussed at 

 lengtli. Count Zedlitz commences a similar series of 

 articles on the birds of the eastern front, dealing with the 

 collections and summarizing the observations of various 

 other ornithologists, as well as his own, on the bii'ds in the 

 vast swamps of the head-waters of the Pripjet River in 

 southern Poland and the neighbouring parts of Russia — a 

 melancholy region, wild and inaccessible, and but sparsely 

 inhabited by man though swarming with birds. Another 

 paper, also in several parts, dealing with the birds of 

 the Ural region in eastern Russia is from the pen of 

 Mr. H. Grote. 



Mr. Oscar Neumann contributes a long list of new genera 

 and of subspecies from different parts of Africa. These^, he 

 states^ have long been known to him, and indeed manj"^ of 

 the types are in the Tring and Londoii museums, which 

 he visited before the war. But, as he mournfully writes, 

 seeing little chance of securing further material for com- 

 parison, he now publishes his old notes. The new genera 

 are Knestrometophon for Sigmodus scopifrons Peters, Suaheli- 

 ornis for Phyllastrephus kretzschmeri Rclnv., SatJirocercus 

 for Bradypterus barakee Sharpe, Vibrissa sylvia for Callene 

 cyornitliopsis Sharpe^ and the new races described are 

 sixteen in number. 



Another paper by Count Zedlitz reviews the eastern races 

 of Certhia familiaris and C. brachydactyla, and includes 

 descriptions of several new races ; while Dr. Reichenow has 

 some remarks on the Soutli American genus Cinclodes, and 

 also adds to the number of described races. The last 

 supplementary part is entirely occupied witli portion of a 

 work on the birds of Egypt by Prof. Koenig, of Bonn. 

 It contains the accounts of the Insessores (i. e. Picarians 

 and their allies) and the Coraces (Orioles, Bulbuls, Star- 

 lings, and Crows). Full diagnoses of the genera and species 

 are given ; also the names in Englisli, French, and Arabic, 

 and detailed accounts of the nesting-habits and eggs of such 

 species as breed there. 



