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of the Sahara, and that the Pratincoles of Africa form 

 distinct races and breed there. Of these he recognises two 

 races — Glareola pratincola limbata, Nubia to Angola, and 

 G. p.fuUiborni, East Africa and Natal. The Pratincole of 

 Asia migrating to Australia, hitherto known as G. j9. orien- 

 talis, Dr. Hartert regards as a distinct species and calls it 

 G. maldivarum Forst. 



The third note deals with the occurrence of Baird's 

 Sandpiper in South-west Africa. A single example ob- 

 tained by Andersson at Walvisch Bay on October 23, 

 1863, passed from the Seebohm collection into that of tiie 

 Museum of St. Petersburg and is presumably still there. 

 It never went to the British Museum with the rest of tlie 

 Seebohm collection. This example is the only one ever 

 recorded from Africa. 



In the fourth note Dr. Hartert states his reasons for 

 believing that the name of the Long-toed Stint should be 

 Tringa (or Erolid) snbminuta Middendorlf rather than 

 Tringa damacensls, the name used by Sharpe in the 

 Catalogue and by the B. O. U. Check-list. 



The fifth note distinguishes the Stone-Plover of Central 

 Asia and south and east Persia as Burhinus wdicnemus 

 astutus subsp. n. 



Though an Atlas of Plates illus-trating the spoils of 

 Capt. von Krusenstern's voyage round the world appeared 

 in 1814 no text was published and the Atlas remains a very 

 rare work. Birds are figured on eight of the plates, and 

 several of the figures formed the basis for descriptions by 

 Vieillot in the Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. In the sixth paper 

 on the list Dr. Hartert has endeavoured to identify these 

 figures. 



The final note gives a list of errors in quotations in the 

 synonymy of the 24<th volume of the ' Catalogue of Birds ' 

 by Sharpe, and is a warning to writers to verify their 

 references before copying them down even from such well- 

 known works as the ' Catalogue of Birds ' or Reichenow^s 

 ' Vogel Afrikas.' 



