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1894, a whole year was spent in the Principality by Herr 

 Reiser — his headquarters being at Podgoritza, within easy 

 reach of the great Lake of Scutari. But, as will be seen by 

 the maps attached to the volume, nearly the whole of 

 Montenegro was traversed at one time or another. The list 

 given at the close of the account of the travels shows that 

 examples of 237 species of birds were thus obtained per- 

 sonally by the authors in Montenegro, and that 31 more 

 have been recorded by otlier observers, making the total 

 number of Montenegrin species, as at present recorded, to 

 be 268. 



The " special part " of the work which follows gives details 

 as to the occurrence of the various species, and excellent 

 field-notes on their habits. Some of the species of particular 

 interest to the ornithologists of the West are such forms as 

 Hijpolais pallida, Sitta neumayeri, Otocorys penicillata, Eu- 

 spiza melanocephala^ Falco feldeggi, Astur brevipes, andPe/e- 

 canus crispics, which are never seen in Western Europe. It 

 is curious that the occurrence of Passer petronius in Monte- 

 negro still rests on the authority of the late Lord Lilford, 

 who observed it in August 1857, when riding up from 

 Rijeka to Cettinje [cf. Ibis, 1860, p. 137). 



Coloured figures of Falco feldeggi {6 ad. et $ jr.) and 

 Astur brevipes ( c? $ et pull.) illustrate this attractive volume 

 — for which the best thanks of all ornithologists are due to 

 the energetic authors. 



54. Richmond on Birds from Central Asia. 



[Catalogue of a Collection of Birds made by Dr. W. L. Abbott, in 

 Eastern Turkestan, the Thian Shau Mountains, and Tagdumbash Pamir, 

 Central Asia, with Notes on some of the Species. By Charles W. 

 Richmond. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xviii. p. 569.] 



The collection recently made by Dr. Abbott in Eastern 

 Turkestan, the Thian- Shan Mountains, and the Tagdumbash 

 Pamir, and presented to the U.S. National Museum, contains 

 210 finely prepared specimens, which represent 98 species. 

 In his account of them Mr. Richmond, as in the Catalogue 

 of Dr. Abbott's Cashmir birds {cf. Ibis, supra, p. 129), 



