THE IBIS, 



FIFTH SERIES. 



No. I. JANUARY 1883. 



I. Notes on the Birds of the Caucasus* 

 By HENRY SEEBOHM, F.Z.S. 



IN 1880, Modeste Bogdanow, the Ornithological Curator of 

 the Museum of the Imperial Academy of Art and Science in 

 St. Petersburg, published an important work on the Birds 

 of the Caucasus, containing not only the results of his own 

 travels in that district, but also a resume of all the reliable 

 information on the subject to be found in the works of pre- 

 vious writers. Unfortunately his valuable book is written 

 in the Russian language. I have had a translation made of 

 it; and when I was at St. Petersburg M. Bogdanow was kind 

 enough to show me the skins of all the most interesting 

 examples of Caucasian birds in the Museum. I have thus 

 been able to prepare for the readers of ' The Ibis ' a digest 

 of this important addition to our knowledge of the geogra- 

 phical distribution of the birds of the Palaearctic region. 



Bogdanow gives a list of sixty-nine books and papers in 

 various periodicals relating to the birds of the Caucasus. In 

 the last century the Caucasus was visited by Giildenstadt 

 in 1770-73, by J. G. Gmelin in 1770-74, and by Pallas in 



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