NOTICES OF SOME TUItKESTAN BIRDS, SeVei'tSOV. 431 



from the true Egyptian C. cyanotus, Alfr. Brehm., which is 

 smaller, and with lighter bluish grey rump than C. intermedia. 



75. — Columba fusca, Pall., standing under this name in my 

 list, is C. Eversmanni, Bonap ; but the name of Pallas is to 

 stand, as prior. 



76, 77. — Two new Turkestan Pheasants described by me for 

 the Ibis : Ph. semitorquatus, allied to mongolicus. I am not quite 

 sure yet whether the differences on which I have founded this 

 species are constant or not, and Ph. chrysbmelas, resembling the 

 Yarkand Ph. insignis, but certainly different from any known 

 species. 



78. — My Falcirostra longipes is Ibidorhynchus Struthersi ; F. 

 Kaufmanni perhaps also, perhaps different ; I will soon make 

 it out. 



79. — Ciconia alba, Var., orientalis will stand as C. mycterio- 

 rhyncha, Sev., allied to C. Boyciana, Swinh., but with a red bill, 

 somewhat recurved towards the tip, and lower mandible thicker 

 thau the upper — like C. Boyciana and C. nigra, but inverse of C. 

 alba. It is also larger ; male 4 feet long, above 7 feet in the 

 spread of wings ; female about 44-45 inches long, and thus 

 larger than even the male C. alba. 



Here I conclude this letter, grown to a paper for " Stray 

 Feathers," as ' ( Notices on some Turkestan birds." Begun in 

 May, at St. Petersburgh ; finished 18th September, London, on 

 the very eve of my departure. Meanwhile I have arranged and 

 studied my new collection, attended the Paris Geographical Con- 

 gress, compared Turkestan birds with Indian specimens of the 

 same, in London, seen many collected by Forsyth's Mission, and 

 identified specimens with my own Turkestan ones, writing my 

 corrected synonyms, as in this letter, on the labels. These Mr. 

 Sharpe will communicate to you ; of your birds Propasser 

 Stoliczka is most thoroughly verified as really new, as is also 

 Podoces Biddulphi and some others. 



Yours most truly, 



N. Sevebtsov. 



[I cannot sufficiently express my obligations to Herr Severstov for having so kindly 

 responded to my enquiries. There is much in the above letter, specially where the 

 Saliearias are concerned, in which 1 am unable to concur, but it is impossible to over- 

 estimate the value as a whole to us out here of the information thus so uusellishly and 

 obligingly communicated to us. — E«., S. F.] 



