THE 



NATURAL HISTORY REVIEW 



A 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 



IctiteitiB and ^Dtir^s. 



•*' XXXYIII.— The Zoology of Sibekia. 



Reisen im SiJDEN VON OsT-SiEiEiE57 iiT DEN Jahren 1855-59 IM 

 Atjftrage der kaiseelichen Geogeaphischen Gesellschaet 

 ArsGEFiinET von GiJSTAV Eadde. Band II. Die Pestlands 

 Ornis des Sudostliclien Sibirien. St. Petersburg, 1863. 



In a former number of tbis Journal* we bave spoken at some lengtb 

 of tbe important expedition sent out to Eastern Siberia in 1855 by 

 tbe Imperial Geograpbical Society of St. Petersburg, and of tbe 

 valuable contribution made to our knowledge of tbe Mammal-fauna 

 of that country by Herr Gustav Eadde, tbe Zoologist of the expe- 

 dition, in tbe first volume of tbe work now before us. Tbe second 

 volume, relating to the birds of the same country, also prepared by 

 Herr Eadde, who appears to have devoted special attention to this 

 branch of zoology, has lately been received in this country, and now 

 demands our attention. 



Pallas's Zoographia Eosso-Asiatica — until lately our only standard 

 authority on the birds of Eussian Asia, — gave but few notices of the 

 ornitbology of tbe vast territory now known by the name of 

 Amoorland. Middendorf s '* Sibirische Eeise" and Maack's journey 

 to the Amoor in 1855, were tbe earliest of our more recent sources 

 of information concerning the natural products of this region. But 

 the results of all previous investigations, as well as a great mass of 

 new and original materials, were contained in tbe recent publication 

 of Dr. Leopold von Schrenck entitled " Eeisen und Forscbungen in 

 Amurlande," the second volume of which gives us information con- 

 cerning 190 species of birds met with in this country and on tbe 

 adjoining sea- coasts. Upon this last work Herr Eadde has grounded 



* See Nat. Hist. Rev. 1864, p. 204. 

 N.H.R.— 186.5. 2 I 



