254 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



brackets. Two maps shew by means of different colours 

 the " Life Zones/' or areas of uniform temperature, and the 

 " Faunal Areas/' or regions of uniform humidity. The work 

 will be found most useful by those interested in Californian 

 ornithology. 



50. Hartert on Birds from Pahang. 



[On Birds from Pahang, Eastern Malay Peninsula. By Ernst Hartert. 

 Nov. Zool. ix. p. 537.] 



The native Malayan State of Pahang contains on its 

 northern border an enormous mountain, Mt. Tahan, said to 

 be upwards of 10,000 feet high, which Mr. Waterstradt, who 

 made the collection now described, was the first European 

 to explore. Species from the lowlands are included in the 

 paper, and altogether 196 are enumerated. The general 

 similarity of the avifauna to that of Sumatra '"is very 

 striking." 



The occurrence of the remarkable Phasianine genus 

 Rheinardtius in the Malay Peninsula is a new and most 

 interesting fact. Mr. Rothschild has described the form as 

 a new subspecies — R. ocellatus nigrescens (Bull. B. O. C. xii. 

 p. 55). 



Mr. Hartert also describes as new : — Iole holti hinghami 

 (from the Shan States of Burmah), Pycnonotus prillwitzi 

 (from Java), Turdinulus humii (from Mt. Tahan) , Siva strigula 

 nialayana (from Mt. Tahan), Suya waterstradti (from Mt. 

 Tahan), Cittocincla macrura omissa (from Java), Pteruthius 

 tahanensis (from Mt. Tahan), Ploceus passerinus infortunatus 

 (from the Malay Peninsula), and Dissemurus paradiseus 

 johni (from Hainan). But by far the most remarkable dis- 

 covery made on Gunong Tahan was the Bullfinch Pyrrhula 

 waterstradti (Bull. B. O. C. xii. p. 69), procured at a height 

 of from 5000 to 7000 feet. This intruding Palsearctic genus 

 was, however, known to occur in the highlands of Luzon 

 (P. leucogenys). 



