200 Recently published Ornithological lVo7-Ics. [Ibis, 



tract stretcliing iiorthwaids between the Kara Sea and the 

 estuary of the Ob River in north-west Siberia. This 

 land was explored on behalf of the Russian Geographical 

 Society in 1908 by Dr. B. Shitkow, and the results of 

 his journey were published in 1913 (Anuuaire du Musee 

 Zoologique de FAcad. Imp. de St. Petersbourg, xvii. 

 pp. 311-369). A list of 52 species obtained by Dr. Shitkow 

 is given^ and there are some interesting remarks on the 

 vexed question of the validity of several so-called species 

 or races of Geese of the groups Anser segetum and A. alhi- 

 frons, and also on the moults of Lagojrus lagopus and 

 L. mulus. 



In the third memoir is a review of the literature dealing 

 with the avifauna of the three Governments in north-west 

 Russia, situated in the neighbourhood of Petrograd — those 

 of Pskow, Nowgorod, and St. Petersburg itself. • A good 

 deal has been written on these provinces by Biauchi, 

 Sarudny, Biiclmer, and other well-known ornithologists. 

 A list of 30J< species recorded, with indication of the status 

 of each, in each of the three provinces, compiled by 

 Herr Grote from the most recent Russian sources, concludes 

 this very useful series of reviews, which we hope will secure 

 sufficient support to warrant the continuation of the work 

 by the author. 



Hartert's Birds of the Palcearctic Fauna. 



[Die Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna. Vou Dr. Ernst Hartert. 

 Heft, xvi., xvii. (Bd. iii. 2, 3), pp. 1893-2020, 2021-2148. Berlin 

 (Friedlauder), Sept. and Nov. 1921.] 



We have recently received two more parts of Dr. Ilartert^s 

 now almost classical book, and we may congratulate him on 

 the completion of the systematic portion of the work. The 

 lirst of these parts deals with the greater number of the 

 Game-birds and with the Ostriches, thus finishing the review 

 of the birds found in the Palsearctic Region. The species and 

 subspecies which are numbered right through amount to 

 2200. An introduction to the supplement reviews generally 



