898 Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



(jl. Tschufil on the Ornithuluyical Literature of Anstria- 

 Llungary fur 1 909. 



[Ornitholoo'ische Literatur CE.sterreicb-Ungarns, 1909. Von Victor 

 R. V. T.schusi zLi Schinidlioffen. Verb. k.-k. zool.-bot. Wien, Jabrg. 1910, 

 pp. 4.3:>-4G3.J 



This is a complete List of the ornithological publications 

 issued in Austria-Hungary in 1909, and will l)e useful to 

 those who arc working on subjects connected with the Birds 

 of tliat part of Europe. The author has received assistance 

 from various friends who are accjnainted with Hungarian, 

 Croatian, and Czech, in Avhicli languages some of the 

 communications are written. 



XIV. — Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 

 AVe have received the following letters addressed to the 

 Editors : — 



Sirs, — A few notes on my route during the last nine 

 months and on my plans for next year may be of interest to 

 the readers of 'The Ibis.' In May last, along with my com- 

 panions, Messrs. Miller and Price, I travelled throughSiberia 

 to the Yenisei River, and spent several months in exploring its 

 head-waters in the Syansk and Tannu-ola mountain-ranges. 



We found this district, although within the Chinese 

 Empire and on the threshold of Mongolia, to be quite 

 Siberian in character and to possess a Siberian fauna. 

 Forests of larch, spruce, birch, and Scotch fir, interspersed 

 with meadow-lands, and watered by fine rivers, stretch as far 

 south as the Tannu-ola Mountains, and this range (lat. 51°) 

 forms the true " divide " between the Siberian and Mongolian 

 faunas. I made a small collection of birds, which includes 

 examples of the following, among other species : — Ptarmigan, 

 Brown Partridge, IJazel-Groiise, Great Black Woodpecker, 

 Capercaillie, Black- throated Thrush, Golden Oriole, Cross- 

 bill, and various other species. The spring migration was 

 on the whole rather later than it is in England. 



The existence of Sable, Beaver, Reindeer, and Moose also 

 shews the allinities that this district possesses to Siberia. 



On leaving Arctic waters and entering Mongolia proper T 

 immediately perceived a change in the fauna. 



