508 Reanthj ptiblislied Ornithological Works. 



Hartert's recent jjopers. 



[Notes on Pigeons. By Ernst Ilartert, Ph.D. Novit, Zool. Tring-, 

 xxiii. 1916, pp. 77-88. 



Notes on Glareola. Id. ibid. pp. 89-91. 



Concerning the occurrence of Erolia lairdii in South-west Africa. 

 Id. ibid. p. 91. 



What is the correct name of the "Loug-toed Stint"? Id. ibid, 

 pp. 92-93. 



On the forms of Bwhinvs ORdicnemus. Id. ibid. p. 93. 



On the birds figured in the Atlas to Krusenstern's Voyage round the 

 world. Id. ibid. i)p. 94-95. 



Errors in quotations. Id. ibid, pp. 112-114.] 



In the last number of the Tring Journal Dr. Hartert 

 publishes seven short notes on various subjects. We will 

 try briefly to summarize their contents and conclusions. 



The truly Avikl Turtle-Dove of India has usually been 

 known as Slreptopelia (formerly Turtur) risuria. The name 

 was given by Linuseus to tlie domesticated bird which he 

 believed was originally derived from India. Dr. Hartert 

 considers that our domesticated race is derived from S. roseo- 

 grisea of north-eastern Africa, and that the Indian bird 

 must be called by the barbarous term S. decaocto Frivaldsky. 

 Another note deals with the various forms of the Laaghing- 

 Dove, Streptopelia senegalensis, of which he recognises six : 

 S. s. senegalensis, Senegambia to the Cape and to Palestine; 

 S. s. socotra, Island of Socotra; S. s.phoenicophila subsp. n., 

 from Morocco to Tunis south of the Atlas range; S. s. 

 agyptiaca, Egypt; S. s. cumbarjensis, India ; S. s. ermanni, 

 Turkestan to Muscat. For the Spotted Dove of Yunnan 

 and the Snow-Pigeon of western China Dr. Hartert pro- 

 poses the new subspecific names, Streptopelia chinensis 

 vacillans and Columba leuconota gradaria respectively. The 

 Laurel Pigeon of the Canaries, generally known as Columba 

 larvivora, is renamed C. jimonia, as the former name is 

 shown to be a synonym of C. trocaz of Madeira. 



In the second note on the list Dr. Hartert dismisses the 

 genera Galactochrysea and Subglareola (the latter recently 

 proposed by Mathews) as unnecessary ; he also shows that 

 the Pratincole of southern Europe does not migrate south 



