136 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



1 2. Nazarow on the Zoology of the Kirghiz Steppes. 



[Recherches zoologiques des Steppes des Kirguiz. Par P. S. Nazarow, 

 avec preface du Dr. M.TMenzbier. Bull. Soc. Imp. d. Nat. Moscou, 1887, 

 pt. 2, p. 338.] 



This interesting pamphlet treats of the zoology of the 

 country lying to the east of the Ural Mountains^ where, 

 owing to the prolongation of that range southward, under 

 the name of the Mougodschars, it is hardly an exaggeration 

 to say that the reindeer looks down upon the tiger; while 

 the winter climate is that of Novaya Zemlya, and the mean 

 of summer heat exceeds that of Morocco. The remarks on 

 the principal birds (identified by Dr. Menzbier, who writes a 

 short preface) are of considerable value; but some of the 

 names employed are rather puzzling. Many are unaware that 

 Clejites is a Magpie, and neither Milvus glaucopus nor M. 

 glaucopis will be found in the Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vol. i., 

 or in Gray^s Hand-list. 



13. Nicholson on the Birds of the Manchester District. 



[Notes on the Ornitliology of tlie [Manchester] District. By Francis 

 Nicholson. Published for tlie Meeting of the British Association at 

 Manchester. Sm. Bvo. 1887.] 



This unpretending little pamphlet is a model of its kind, 

 conveying precisely the amount and the class of information 

 that visitors to the British Association would require. The 

 number of species of birds to be met with in and around that 

 smoky manufacturing city is really surprising, and we know 

 that the record is true. 



14. ' Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society's Trans- 

 actions.' 



[Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society's Transactions, vol. iy.pt. iii. 

 Norwich: 1887.] 



There are several original ornithological papers in this 

 Part. Colonel H. W, Feilden gives an account of Com- 

 modore A. H. Markham's voyage to Hudson's Bay in the 

 summer of 1886, with a list of the birds and other objects of 



