278 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



the celebrated expedition of the ' Vega ' round the northern 

 coast of Siberia in 1878-79. The specimens, some of which 

 we have had the pleasure of seeing in this country, are finally 

 deposited in the Natural- History Museum of Stockholm. 

 About 300 examples obtained are referred to 80 species, on 

 which many valuable notes are given. The " plum " of the 

 collection was Eurynorhynchus pygmcBus, of which about 20 

 specimens were procured near the ^Vega's' winter-quarters 

 near the extreme north-eastern point of Siberia. Specimens 

 of two American Mniotiltidse, Henicocichln noveboracensis 

 and Dendroica coronata, were obtained on the Tschuktsehi 

 coast. A very full and useful list of the ornithological 

 literature of the Polar area is added to this excellent piece 

 of work. 



51. Salvadori on Birds from Upper Burmah. 



[Uccelli raccolti nella Birmania Superiore (1885-1886). Per T. Sal- 

 vadori. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Geneva, ser. 2, vol. iv. p. 568.] 



The author gives an account of the collection of birds 

 made by Sign. L. Fea, Assistant in the Museo Civico of 

 Genoa, in 1885 and 1886, at Bhamo and other places in its 

 neighbourhood. The 306 specimens obtained are referred to 

 111 S2)ecies, all of which but 3 are enumerated in Mr. Oates's 

 ' Handbook to the Birds of British Burmah.^ Dr. Anderson 

 had previously collected birds in the Bhamo district during 

 the Yunnan Expedition, but 44< of Sign. Tea's species are 

 not in Dr. Anderson^s list. Count Salvadori is disposed to 

 distinguish the Asiatic form of Ceryle rudis as C. varia, 

 Strickl., and gives many useful notes on this and other 

 species. 



52. Salvadori on Birds from Tenasserim. 



[Uccelli raccolti nel Tenasserim (1887). Per Toramaso Salvadori. 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 2, vol. v. p. 554 (1888).] 



Sign. L. Fca, whose collection from Upper Burmah has 

 been mentioned above, proceeded to Tenasserim in 1887 and 

 explored the district of Moulmein, where he ascended Mount 



