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the most northern part of its great bend. Then turning along 

 its south bank for 250 miles, he recrossed it at Ding-hu, and 

 proceeded into Alashan, a wild and barren mountain-district, 

 lying to the south of the Gobi. Here, we believe, most of 

 his best zoological discoveries were made. In a second ex- 

 pedition in 1872, Col. Prejevalsky succeeded in penetrating 

 far beyond Alashan, through the little-known Chinese pro- 

 vince of Kansu, to the large lake of Kokonor, the original 

 aim of his journey. In a winter-journey from Kokonor he 

 finally penetrated to the banks of the Upper Yang-tze, only 

 500 miles from L^hassa, where only want of funds stopped 

 his further progress. 



23. Rowley's ' Ornithological, Miscellany.' 



[Ornithological Miscellany. Edited by George Dawson Rowley, M.A., 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., Member of tlie British Ornithologists' Union. Part VI. 

 London, 1877 : Triibner & Co.] 



The sixth part of Mr. Rowley^s ' Ornithological Miscel- 

 lany,' a work of the general character of which we have 

 already spoken, contains the commencement of a memoir of 

 much importance to English ornithologists. We have just 

 spoken of Col. Prjeval sky's ' Travels in Mongolia,' and of 

 the many zoological discoveries Avhich he made ; but the tech- 

 nical portion of the work relating to the birds was not included 

 in Mr. Morgan's English edition. Aware of its importance 

 to naturalists, Mr. Rowley has now had a translation of this 

 part of it made by Mr. E. Carl Craemers, the first portion of 

 which, embracing an account of 117 species met with by 

 Colonel Prjevalsky in Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the 

 solitudes of Northern Thibet, is included in the present num- 

 ber of the ' Ornithological Miscellany,' with a promise of the 

 remainder to follow. The plates of the original work are 

 also faithfully reproduced. The new species described by 

 Colonel Prjevalsky are : — Caprimulgus plumipes , from China; 

 Ruticilla alaschannica, from the Alashan mountains ; Calliope 

 tschebaiewi, from the Kansu mountains ; Pcecile affinis, from 

 the Alashan and Kansu; and P. superciliosa, Lophophanes 

 dichroides, and Merula kessleri, all from the Kansu mountains. 



