A COLLI- CTIO.N UF lUllÜS 



MADE 



IN MONGOLIA 



by Dr. Donaldson Smith 



and Messrs. J.-E. and G.-L. Farnum. 



R. BOWDLER SHARPE, L. L. D.. F. Z. S., ETC. 



In Ihe Geographical Journal for 1898 (vol. XI, 

 p. il)8-;)09), will Ijo foiind an accounl of Dr. Donalson 

 Smilh's « Journey Ihrough the Khiu-ghan monnlains », 

 witli liis Lwo friends. Leaving l^eking on the 19th of 

 May 1897, Ihe routo of the travellers lay to the northward 

 throiigli the Ivhin-ghan niountains to DoIon-x\or, « a large 

 trading centre between China and Mongolia », and thence 

 in a north-easterly direction to Tsitsiharand Vladivostock. 



On Iheir journey the three travellers made natural 

 history collections, and they have very kindly presented 

 the British Museum with a set of the birds, of which l have 

 j)repared a list. The synonymy I have added atlords ;i 

 better idea of the species and their distribution in luisteni 

 Asia than any long explanation I might give, as it points 

 ontwhetlier the species are already known to be Mongolian 

 or Chinese. Most of them are to be found in the pages of 

 Prjevalski's work and in the account of Berezowski's 

 collections in Oan-su; white the majority of them are 

 also included in David and Oustalet's Oiseaux de la Chinr 



