32 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant ow the 



are lost, and have only been identified years afterwards from 

 memory. A considerable number have only been seen, not 

 obtained, and the correctness of the identification of many of 

 these is extremely doubtful. In addition to the forty more or 

 less doubtful occurrences, there are no fewer than seventy-five 

 that have only been once shot on the island, though in a few 

 cases it is supposed that other examples have been seen near 

 enough for identification. There still remain, how^ever, two 

 hundred and eighty species which have been shot more than 

 once upon the island, and a large proportion of wliich pass 

 over regularly every spring and autumn, some of them occa- 

 sionally in incredibly large numbers. 



Under all circumstances the facts recorded in this most 

 interesting book are of the greatest importance ; and it is to 

 be hoped that the English translation will appear without 

 unnecessary delay. 



It is noteworthy to remark that most of the wanderers fi'om 

 the east have occurred in autumn, whilst the accidental 

 visitors from the south have generally appeared in spring. 

 This fact has been previously observed and recorded of the 

 rare stragglers to the British Islands (Seebohm, Brit. Birds, 

 ii. p. 318). 



II. — A short Review of the Francolins belonying to the Genera 

 Francolinus and Pternistes. By W. R. Ogilvie Grant 

 (Nat. Hist. Mus.). 



(Plate I.) 



The following brief review contains a key to all the known 

 species of Francolins. It gives also a short synonymy, which 

 shows, so far as I know, the oldest authority for every com- 

 bination of generic and specific names ever used for each 

 species, and all references to plates, except in the case of 

 species (such as Francolinus francolinus) which have been 

 frequently figured, when the best only are quoted. The 

 geographical range is stated in every case, and a few notes 

 are added. 



