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near Copenhagen. It has been examined by Mr. Seebohm, 

 who confirms the identification. The previously ascertained 

 range of this species extends over Northern China, Japan, 

 and Amoorland up to 90° E. long. 



72. ' Aquila ' : a new Hungarian Journal of Ornithology. 



[Aquila. A Magyar Madartani Kozpont Folyoirata. No. I. Budapest, 

 July 1894.] 



We have received the first number of ' Aquila,' a " Journal 

 of Ornithology, the organ of the Hungarian Central Bureau 

 for Ornithological Observations,^^ and are glad to welcome 

 our new contemporary. ' Aquila ' is printed in parallel 

 columns of Magyar and German. After an introduction, by 

 Mr. Otto Herman, Chief of the Hungarian Central Com- 

 mittee, in which the origin and aims of the new journal are 

 explained — its special object being the investigation of the 

 phenomena of Migration — and an explanation, by Mr. Gaston 

 V. Gaal, of the organization of the Central Committee, of 

 which the officials are Messrs. Herman (Chief), Jablonowski 

 (Assistant), and Gaston Gaal de Gyula (Hon. Assistant), 

 follows a series of memoirs by Messrs. Jablonowski, Herman, 

 Gaetke, Madarasz, and other authors, mainly relating to 

 Hungarian birds, which ornithologists who are interested in 

 the European Ornis should not fail to study. We beg our 

 Hungarian friends to excuse this short notice of their in- 

 teresting work, and to accept our best wishes for its success. 



73. Boiver on the Birds of Tibet. 



[Diary of a Journey across Tibet. By Capt. Hamilton Bower. London, 



1894.] 



The narrative of Capt. Bower's adventurous journey across 

 Tibet from Ladakh to Ta-tsien-loo contains several references 

 to birds (see pp. 27, 47, 156, 178, 235, 244). In one of the 

 final chapters will be found a series of notes on the Game- 

 Birds of the " Chang," with contributions to their histories 

 by Mr. Seebohm. Syrrhaptes tibetanus is widely distributed 

 in Tibet ; four fine Pheasants — Crossoptilon tibetanum, C. 

 leucurum, Phasianus elegans, and Ithaginis geoffroyi — were 



