1922.] Recently published Ornitholocjical Works. 199 



Berger, and TigrihapJie lencuJcema Reicliw, The last, wc arc 

 informed, is au example of a Tiyrisoma from South America, 

 aud must liave been accidentally included in Father Conrad's 

 collection. It is quite unlike any of the kncjwn African 

 Bitterns. 



Grotes Translations of Russian Memoirs. 



[Ueber die zoologisclieii (liauptsiiclilich ornilhologisclieu) Gebiete der 

 Ausserhalb der Tropen gelegerien Telle uuseres Kontiuents. Von Nikolai 

 Sewei'zow. Uebersetzt und eigeleitet von Ileimaiui Grote. Pp. 1-32, 

 portr. Miinchen (Dultz), 1921. 8vo.] 



[Aus der ornitliologibL-hen Literatur Russlaiids. Bericlite and Ueber- 

 setzungen. Yon Hermann Grote. I. — Dr. B. Shitkow's ornitliologiscbe 

 BeobachtuDgen auf der Saniojeden-Halbinsel (Ja-mal). II. — Die Vogel 

 Nordwestriisslauds : der Gouverueiuents Pskow, Nowgorod uud St. 

 Petersburg. I'p. 1-32.] 



Herr Grote, .who was for some time detained in liussia as 

 a prisoner of war and there acquired a good knowledge of 

 Russian, has conceived tlie happy idea of issuing a series 

 of translations or, rathei', full resumes of the more im- 

 portant memoirs of llussian ornithologists wliicli, owing 

 to the language in which they were published, are unknow^n 

 to the majority of western bird-students. 



Of the three, the first contains a short account of the 

 .life and writings of the celebrated naturalist Sewerzow% or 

 Severtzotif as he is generally known to English writers — 

 one of the earliest of the Russian naturalists to explore 

 Turkestan and the highlands of the Pamirs and Tian Shan 

 mountain ranges. He lost his life in 1885 when crossing a 

 tributary of the Don not sufficiently frozen over to bear 

 the weight of his carriage. The memoir here translated 

 deals with the subdivision of the Palaiarctic region into 

 subregions and zones, and was published in 1877 in Russia 

 in the ' Transactions of the Imperial Russian Geographical 

 Society'' (vol, xiii. pp. 125-153). A portrait of Scvertzoff 

 accompanies the paper. 



The second of Hcrr Grote's translations deals with the 

 birds of the Jamal or the Samoyc Peninsula, that dreary 



