464 THE NATURAL HISTORY REVIEW. 



close an ally of our Capercailzie {T, urogallus) as its name would 

 lead one to suppose. 



The only Pheasant recorded by our author in his work is the 

 P. torquatus — the closely allied eastern representative of our P. col- 

 chicus. We are somewhat disappointed not to find the magnificent 

 Eared Pheasant of Pallas (Crossoptilon auritum) included in the 

 list. There is now no doubt that the true home of this splendid bird 

 is the Mongolian Desert north of Pekin,* and we had hoped that it 

 might have extended far enough northwards to have come within the 

 grasp of the Eussian explorers. 



A fine representative of our European Partridge inhabits Trans- 

 baikalia and Amoorland, for which Herr Eadde retains the Pallasian 

 name *' var. rupestris daurica.''^ According to our ideas, however, it 

 has good claims to rank as a species, and indeed it has recently been 

 described and figured as such in the Zoological Society's " Pro- 

 ceedings."! 



We now come to the numerous Order of the quasi-cosmopolitan 

 G-rallaB, in which, as might have been expected the greater number of 

 the species are old European friends. But there are not wanting many 

 very interesting Eastern forms in this group — such as three species 

 of Cranes besides the western Grus cinerea and G. virgo. Two of 

 these (Gr. leucauchen and G. monachus) were previously only known 

 from Japan. In the same category we should also have placed the 

 beautiful Ibis nippon of the "Fauna Japonica" obtained by Herr 

 Maack on the Ussuri, and also seen by Herr Eadde himself, had not 

 Mr. Swinhoe already recorded its occasional appearance in China 

 and Formosa. J 



Amongst the G8 j^atatores included by Herr Eadde in his work, 

 by far the greater part are again species well known in Europe. 

 Yet among the Anatida». we find a few exclusively eastern birds — 

 such as Anas grandis, A. glocitans, A. galericulata, and the new 

 Falif/ula haeri of the Amoor- valley— an interesting novelty allied to 

 F. nyroca and F. cristata, of which a good figure is given (pi. xv). 



Having now concluded our survey of the difterent Orders, we must 

 endeavour to state shortly the deductions arrived at by the author 

 as to the general character of the Eastern Siberian Ornis. Of the 

 328 species included by Herr Eadde in the main portion of his work, 

 43 are considered to be Japanese and South Asiatic. These, however, 

 are, with one exception only, summer- visitants to the North- Mantchu- 



* Cf. Swinhoe, F. Z. S., 1862, p. 286, and G. R. Gray, P. Z. S., 1864, p. 258. 

 f Pcrdix harhata, Verreaux, P. Z. S., 1860, pi. ix., p. 62. 

 \ Sec P. Z. S., 1863, p. 318, and " Ibia," 1861-3, p. 416. 



