Recently published Ornithological Works. 6G1 



his wife and two students to the Russian Altai and 

 north-western Mongolia. Twelve hundred bird-skins were 

 brought back ; a list of these is given along with a review 

 of the local zoological regions. 



Other new species aud subspecies described are as 

 follows : — 



Sitta em'opaa sztolcmnni Domaniewski, p. 142 ; 



Jynx torquilla harterti and Bomby cilia garrulus centralasia 



Poljakow, pp. 135, 137, from the Altai ; 

 Bubo bubo zaissanensis Hachlow, p. 224 ; 

 Sterna hirundo turkestanensis Sarudny, p. 226 ; 

 Carduelis carduelis colchicus Kondashew, p. 313; 

 Muscicapa atricapilla sibirica Chachlow^ p. 315. 



Other papers are by J. Domaniewski on Cyanistes cyanus 

 and its relations to C. pleskei ; by K. Greve on feral birds 

 in the Zoological Gardens at Riga ; by N. A. Sarudny on 

 the status of Pica pica bactriana ; and by P. Sushkin on the 

 status of Falco lorenzi Menzb., which he regards as identical 

 vrith F. altaicus of the same author^ lorenzi being the adult 

 and altaicus a dark individual in its second plumage; but 

 the oldest name is F. altaicus. 



A number of papers by Prof. Buturlin in the present 

 volume have already been noticed ('Ibis,' 1915^ p. 786). 



Revue Francaise d'Ornithologie. 



[Revue Francaise d'Ornitliologie, Scieutifique et Pratique. 7° Ainit'e, 

 nos. 69-80. Jan.-Dec, 1915.J 



We have recently received from M. Menegaux, the 

 courteous Editor of the French Ornithological Journal, 

 the numbers for last year, and we will endeavour briefly 

 to give a list of the more important contents. 



The first article in the January number is one by 

 Dr. Millet-Horsin on the Birds-of-Prey met with by him 

 at Dakar in French West Africa. The same author also 

 writes an interesting account of a native myth in regard to 

 the Horubill, Ceratogymna elata, and a further contribution 



