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which lie draws the conclusion that the latter sit with one 

 leg on each side of the nest, as equilibrium would otherwise 

 be impossible. This, of course, runs counter to the views of 

 other writers, but appears to agree with the statements of 

 the natives. Figures are given to assist the enquirer. 



88. Hartert on the Pulcearctic Avifauna. 



[Die Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna. Von Dr. Ernst Hartert. Heft ii. 

 Berlin : Friedlander. June 1904. Pp. 113-240.] 



The second part of Dr. Hartert's ' Birds of the Palsearctic 

 Fauna ' is based on exactly the same plan as the first, which 

 we have already discussed at some length (see above, p. 291). 

 The author continues and concludes his account of the 

 Finches, recognising 237 species and subspecies of this 

 family, and then proceeds to the Larks. The subspecies 

 characterised as new for the first time in Part ii. are nineteen 

 in number, and are named : Loxia curvirostra hispana, L. c. 

 anglica, L. c. scotica, Montifringilla brandti walteri (from 

 N.W. China), Gymnorhis flavicollis transfuga (Baluchistan), 

 Passer domestica biblicus (Palestine), P. italite senckenberg- 

 ianus (N.E. Africa), P. rutilans debilis (Cashmere), 

 Emberiza cia par (Transcaspia), E. schcenictus pallidior 

 (Turkestan), E. s. othmari (Bulgaria), E. pyrrhuloides 

 reiseri (Greece), E. p. centralasice (E.Turkestan), Metano- 

 corypha calandra psammochroa (E. Persia), Calandrella 

 minor point :eki (Lanzarote, Canaries), Galerida cristata 

 caroli (Egypt), G. c. cinnamomina (Syria), G. c. tardinata 

 (S. Arabia), and G. theklce erlangeri (N. Morocco). 



Besides these, in the remarks on Passer montana (p. 161), 

 Passer montanus taivanensis from Formosa is described as a 

 new subspecies. 



89. Helms on Birds from Greenland. 



[Fortsatte ornitkologiske Meddelelser (1903) fra Gr0nland. Af O. 

 Helms. Vidensk. Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. i Kbkvn. 1904, pp. 79- 

 135.] 



Our friends in Copenhagen keep good watch over the birds 

 of Greenland, which, since the days of Scoresby (1823), few 



