314 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



Grinnell and Storer on a new Fox- Sparrow. 



[A new race of Fox-Sparrow from the \icinity of Mono Lake, 

 California. By Joseph Grinnell and Tracy I. Storer. Condor, xix. 

 1917, pp. 165-166.] 



The authors of this note arid another subspecies of Fox- 

 Sparrow to the eight already recognized in the Check-List. 

 The new race (Passerella iliaca monoensls) breeds on the 

 eastern side of the Sierra Nevada in Mono county, Cali- 

 fornia, and is intermediate as regards the size of its bill 

 (the principal distinguishing character ol the races) between 

 P. i. megarhyncha of the Yosemite valley and P. i. schistaceu 

 of the Great Basin region of Nevada. 



Hartert's recent papers. 



[On the Crested Larks of the Nile Valley. By Dr. Ernst Hartert. 

 Nov. Zool. Tring, xxiv. 1917, pp. 439-441. 

 Notes on Pheasants. Id. ibid. pp. 442-452.] 

 The subspecies of Cyanopica cyanus. Id. ibid. p. 493.] 



In the first of these short papers Dr. Hartert makes some 

 corrections to the account he gave of the Crested Larks of 

 Egvpt in the Vog. pal. Fauna, and also controverts some 

 of the conclusions more recently published by Messrs. 

 Nicoll and Bonhote. Dr. Hartert now recognizes the 

 following : — 



Galerida cristata nigricans Brehm. From the Nile delta. 

 G. c. maculata Brehm. Nile valley from Cairo to 



Wadi Haifa. 

 G. c. altirostris Brehm. Nile valley from Wadi Haifa 



to At bar a. 

 G. c. isabellina Bp. Atbara to the Blue and White 



Niles. 



The second paper contains a number of taxonomic notes on 

 various forms of the " True Pheasants," which Dr. Hartert, 

 in opposition to the views of the Russian naturalists, 

 Messrs. Buturlin, Alpheraki, and Bianchi, regards as all 

 subspecies of P. colchicus. This is followed by a list of 

 these subspecies, thirty-two in number, commencing with 



