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  Recently 
  published 
  Ornithological 
  Works. 
  

  

  mission 
  (with 
  a 
  few 
  additions 
  and 
  corrections) 
  from 
  Count 
  

   Salvadori's 
  excellent 
  memoir 
  of 
  Gould 
  (Att. 
  Ace. 
  Sc. 
  Torino, 
  

   xxi. 
  p. 
  1) 
  . 
  The 
  list 
  shows 
  that 
  GoukFs 
  publications 
  were 
  

   altogether 
  320 
  in 
  number, 
  whereof 
  18 
  are 
  illustrated 
  folio 
  

   works 
  and 
  the 
  remainder 
  'opuscula/ 
  The 
  'Analytical 
  

   Index 
  ' 
  of 
  names 
  and 
  references, 
  which 
  forms 
  the 
  main 
  part 
  

   of 
  the 
  volume, 
  fills 
  376 
  quarto 
  pages, 
  and 
  is 
  stated 
  to 
  contain 
  

   nearly 
  17,000 
  references, 
  w^iich 
  have 
  been 
  checked 
  by 
  the 
  

   author 
  with 
  the 
  aid 
  of 
  "his 
  faithful 
  attendant, 
  Mr. 
  Charles 
  

   Chubb.'^ 
  We 
  can 
  easily 
  understand, 
  therefore, 
  that 
  the 
  labour 
  

   involved 
  in 
  its 
  production 
  has 
  been 
  of 
  no 
  small 
  amount. 
  In 
  

   fact, 
  the 
  author 
  tells 
  us 
  it 
  has 
  taken 
  as 
  many 
  years 
  to 
  finish 
  

   as 
  he 
  expected 
  it 
  would 
  have 
  taken 
  months. 
  

  

  85. 
  Stohmann 
  on 
  the 
  Ornithology 
  of 
  Transcaspia. 
  

  

  [Contribution 
  a 
  FOrnithologie 
  de 
  la 
  Transcaspie, 
  d'apres 
  reclierches 
  

   faites 
  par 
  M. 
  Thomas 
  Bary 
  (1888-1801). 
  Par 
  Jean 
  Stolzmann. 
  Bull. 
  

   Soc. 
  Imp. 
  Nat. 
  Moscou, 
  1892, 
  p. 
  382.] 
  

  

  M. 
  Thomas 
  Bary, 
  a 
  correspondent 
  of 
  the 
  Branicki 
  

   Museum 
  at 
  Warsaw, 
  went 
  to 
  Transcaspia 
  on 
  a 
  collecting 
  

   expedition 
  in 
  1889, 
  and 
  visited 
  Askabad, 
  Merv, 
  Saraks, 
  and 
  

   other 
  localities 
  along 
  the 
  Persian 
  and 
  Afghan 
  frontiers. 
  

   The 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  birds 
  obtained 
  at 
  Askabad 
  has 
  been 
  already 
  

   published 
  (Mem. 
  Soc. 
  Zool. 
  France, 
  1890, 
  p. 
  88). 
  A 
  com- 
  

   plete 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  M. 
  Bary's 
  expedition 
  as 
  

   regards 
  birds 
  is 
  now 
  given 
  by 
  M. 
  Stolzmann. 
  There 
  are 
  

   230 
  species 
  represented 
  in 
  the 
  collection, 
  of 
  which 
  17 
  are 
  

   new 
  to 
  the 
  avifauna 
  of 
  Transcaspia. 
  Podoces 
  panderi 
  was 
  

   obtained 
  in 
  many 
  localities. 
  M. 
  Stolzmann 
  is 
  inclined 
  to 
  

   unite 
  Sitta 
  rupicola, 
  Blanford, 
  to 
  S. 
  syriaca, 
  and 
  shows 
  how 
  

   variable 
  this 
  species 
  is, 
  even 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  district. 
  The 
  

   name 
  of 
  '' 
  Phasianus 
  principalis," 
  of 
  which 
  a 
  fine 
  series 
  of 
  

   19 
  examples 
  was 
  obtained 
  by 
  M. 
  Bary 
  on 
  the 
  Afghan 
  

   frontier, 
  is 
  attributed 
  to 
  " 
  Condie 
  Stephen 
  " 
  ! 
  It 
  was, 
  how- 
  

   ever, 
  invented 
  by 
  the 
  Editor 
  of 
  this 
  Journal, 
  though 
  based 
  

   on 
  specimens 
  transmitted 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Condie 
  Stephen 
  to 
  the 
  

   Prince 
  of 
  Wales. 
  See 
  P. 
  Z. 
  S. 
  1885, 
  p. 
  324. 
  

  

  