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latter author says that Henke did not meet with it near 

 Astrachan. I have in my collection a specimen from Sarepta. 

 MeuetrieSj in his ' List of the Birds of the Caucasus/ ob- 

 serves : — " Found in the gardens of Kizil-Agaz and near 

 Lenkoran/'' The present species is also included in Radde's 

 ' Birds of the Caucasus/ but Bogdanow did not meet with it. 

 In Asia INIinor G. canus does not exist. Severtzoff did not 

 meet with this species in Turkestan ; and although Mr. Blan- 

 ford does not include it in his ' Birds of Eastern Persia/ he 

 says '' its occurrence at Ghilan and Mazandaran is highly 

 probable.^' It does not appear to be found in Western 

 Siberia, according to Dr. Finsch. Dr. Taczanowski (Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, 1876, p. 239) observes : — "This species is found 

 everywhere in Southern Siberia, on the Amoor, and in the 

 country of the Ussuri." I have in my collection several 

 examples from Eastern Siberia [Dorries), and M. Jaukowski 

 states that it is tolerably common in the Island of Askold. 

 It also occurs in South Manchuria, specimens (obtained by 

 Dr. H. M. James) having been recently added to the collec- 

 tion in the British Museum. This species is also found in 

 Mongolia ; and although inadvertently omitted in the list of 

 the birds of that country contained in Pi'jevalsky's '^ Birds o£ 

 Mongolia" &c. (Rowley's Orn. Misc.), there can be no doubt 

 that it does exist there, since, in that work, vol. ii. pp. 278, 

 279 (1877), under the heading of CyanopoUus cyanus (which 

 species Prjevalsky says he met with in the Guchin-gurb 

 mountains of S.E, Mongolia, but did not find either in the 

 Ala-shan or in the Hoang-ho valley, although it is very 

 abundant in Kan-su), the following observation occurs : — " It 

 is very remarkable that, whenever we met with these birds, 

 I found some specimens of Gecinus canus in their company, 

 which followed the Magpies everywhere." In China the 

 present species is confined to the north. According to 

 Swinhoe it is common about Chefoo and Pekin, and it does 

 not range so far south as Shanghai and the Yangtze Plain, 

 where it is replaced by G. guerini. David and Oustalet 

 state that it is found all the year in Northern China, where 

 it is very common. In Japan it is confined, so far as is at 



