Recently published Orn'ithuloyical JVorhs. 177 



3. Blackwelder and Richmond on Birds from China, 



[Research in China. Expedition of 1903-4, under the direction of 

 Bailey Willis. Report on Zoology, hy Eliot Blackwelder. Gam. Inst, 

 of Washington. Vol. i. pt, ii. Washington, D.C., 1907.] 



Tliis is the zoological portion of the report of an expe- 

 dition sent out by the Carnegie Institution of Washington 

 (1903-1) to China. The collection of birds, containing 

 examples of 49 species, has been studied by Dr. Charles W. 

 liichmond, and the specimens have been deposited in the 

 U.S. National Museum. They are now enumerated and 

 short field-notes are attached to most of them. Ibido- 

 rhynchus struthersi was met with in the mountain-valleys of 

 Clii-li and Shan-si. Olbiorchilus fumigatus idius is a new 

 subspecies from Shantung and Chi-li. Coloured figures arc 

 given of Calandrella brachydactyla dul-.hunensis , Olbiorchilus 

 fumigatus idius, Pericrocotus brevirostris, Buchanga leuco- 

 genis, Pardaliparus venustulus, Emberiza castaneiceps, and 

 E. yunnanensis. 



4. Bulletin of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of 

 St. Petersburg. 



[Bulletin de I'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg. 

 Y<^ Serie. Classe Physio-Math. Vols. xxii. (1905), xxiii. (1905), xxiv. 

 (1906).] 



These three volumes, of which we have lately received 

 copies, contain iowv ornithological papers by Dr. Bianchi to 

 Avhich attention should be called, although, from their being 

 Avritten in Russian, we can give very little information about 

 them. The first (vol. xxii. p. 37) relates to the genera 

 Leptop(£Cile and Lophobasileus ; the second (vol. xxiii. p. 41) 

 to " Kaznakoivia," which appears to be a new generic name 

 for Babax weddelli of Dresser; the third (xxiii. p. 49) to the 

 species of Cryptuloplia^ Abrornis, and Tickellia, of Central 

 Asia; and the fourth (vol. xxiv. p. 83) to a new species of 

 Pheasant [Phasionus suchschanensis) from Western China. 

 While we cannot complain of authors employing their own 

 language if they prefer it, we think that it would be advisable 

 that such papers as these, which are of interest to zoologists 



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