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VIII. — Notices of recently published Ornithological Works. 



1. Pere David^s ' Third Journey in China/ 



[Journal de mon troisieme Voyage d'Exploration dans I'Empire Chinois : 

 ouvrage contenaut 3 cartes. Par M. I'Abbe Armand David, de la Con- 

 gregation de la Mission. Two vols. Paris : 1875.] 



Pere David's name requires no introduction to the readers 

 of ' The Ibis.^ We all know the extraordinary success that 

 has attended his efforts to make known to science the natural 

 wonders of the interior of the Chinese Empire. Many of us 

 have seen the splendid new forms and brilliant novelties with 

 which he has enriched the Museum of Paris, and have ad- 

 mired the grand discoveries which have thrown a flood of light 

 on the true relations of the Chinese avifauna. 



Pere David^s earlier Journals^'' have been published in the 

 Bulletin of the ' Nouvelles Archives du Museum.^ In these 

 he has given us an account of his first expedition to Mongolia 

 in 1860, and of his second remarkable journey to Setchuan 

 and Moupin in 1868 and the following years. In the present 

 volumes he presents us with a narrative of his third great 

 journey, commenced in 1872, in which he traversed the cen- 

 tral provinces of the empire, and made large collections in 

 two previously unknown mountain-ranges of the interior. 



The pages of Pere David^s diary are rife with interesting 

 notes on the various birds met with, to which, even when 

 borne down by severe sickness, he appears to have devoted 

 unflagging attention. Leaving Pekin at the beginning of 

 October 1872, our traveller journeyed nearly due south to 

 the banks of the Hoang-ho, which he crossed on the 24th of 

 October, and, turning westward along its left bauk_, passed 

 several months at various localities in the Tsiug-ling moun- 

 tains, which lie between this part of the Hoang-ho and some 

 of the northern confluents of the Yaug-tze. Having crossed 

 to the south of the range, he embarked on a native boat on 

 the 17th of April 1873^ and descended the Han to Hankow, 



* Journal d \m Voyage dans le Centre de la Chine et dans le Thibet 

 Oriental. Par M. I'Abbe Armand David. Nouv. Arch. Mus. d'H. N. 

 vol. viii. et ix. (Bulletin). 



