660 Recently published Ornithological Woj-ks. 



against 87. To the remaining 102 no objection of any kind 

 has been offered. These generic names are now reprinted 

 in the present publication, and we may hope that, so far 

 as these names are concerned, no further alteration will be 

 necessary. 



Such names as Charadrius and Colymbus, about which 

 controversy has arisen, do not appear in the present list, but 

 are reserved for the further opinion of the special Advisory 

 Committee on the Nomenclature of Birds. 



If this Committee are able to impress their opinion in 

 regard to the controverted names on ornithologists generally 

 so that they can be universally accepted, a great stride 

 forward in the matter of a fixed nomenclature will be 

 established. 



Messager Ormthologique. 



[Messager Ornithologique. Sixieme Annee, 1915. Moscow.] 



The volume of the Russian Ornithological Journal for 

 1915 contains a number of articles of undoubted interest, 

 but unfortunately, except in a very few cases, they are 

 written in Russian, and it is impossible to give here more 

 than a summary of the titles. 



Of faunal papers the editor, G. I. Poljakov, writes on the 

 birds of Ussuri-land in the extreme eastern part of Russian 

 Asia. Two new subspecies are described, Perdix dcmrica 

 sushkini and Bubo bubo ussuriensis. N. A. Sarudny con- 

 tinues his account of the Avifauna of Turkestan ; A. I. 

 Tugarinov contributes an article on the birds of the Minus- 

 sinsk district on the borders of the Altai Region ; E. S. 

 Ptouchenko writes on the Avifauna of the Kouban Province 

 in south-east Russia ; P. & J. Zalesski on that of the 

 Tomsk district; and B. M. Shitkow and S. G. Schtecher 

 on that of the Commander Islands of the Pacific. This 

 last is illustrated with photographs of nests and nesting- 

 sites. 



Prof. Sushkin, whose papers have an English summary 

 appended, gives an account of a trip he made in 191-1 with 



