1892.] ON BIRDS FROM PERU. 371 



and Tarim rivers, which they frequent for the pools of brackish water 

 that are to be found here and there. But as soon as the snow falls 

 they move off into the desert, as if then independent of the water- 

 supply. They prefer the snow, I imagine, as being less salt than the 

 water, although it also is impregnated to a certain extent soon after 

 it falls. The Camel is very shy in its habits, and, so far as I could 

 ascertain, has never been caught and domesticated. The natives told 

 me that no horse in the country could catch the Camels in the deep 

 sand of the region they frequent. They appear to me to be distinct 

 from the Bactrian Camel ; they are less stumpy in build, the hair is 

 finer, closer, and shorter. They vary in colour, like the domestic 

 species, from dark brown to lightish dun. Their origin has yet to be 

 traced. I take it that they have sprung from Camels which escaped 

 when the district known as Takla Makan was buried in a great sand- 

 storm some centuries ago. Tradition relates that no human beings 

 survived, but it is likely enough that some of the Camels and Horses 

 did so, and that this was the origin of the Wild Camels and Ponies 

 which are found in this district." 



Mr. Blanford added that he had compared the skull of Major 

 Cumberland's specimen with one of a Bactrian Camel in the British 

 Museum. There was some difference, but without a much lar<;er 

 series it was impossible to say whether the difference was sufficient 

 to indicate a distinction of race. In the rather small details in which 

 C. bactrianus differs from C. dromedarius the Wild Camel skull 

 agreed with the former, as it should do, for the skin was that of a 

 two-humped Camel, although, as Major Cumberland had noticed, 

 the humps were very small and represented by tufts of long hair. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Rdsultats des recherches ornithologiques faites au Perou 

 par M. Jean Kalinowski. Par Hans von Berlepsch et 

 Jean Stolzmann. 



[Eeceived April 27, 1892.] 



Table des matibres. Page 



i. Liste des Oiseaux recueillia par M. Jean Kalinowski dans lea environs 



de Lima et d'Ica (Cote Peruvienne) 371 



ii. Aper9u des ouvrages relatifs a la Faune Ornithologique de la cote du 



Perou 396 



iii. Lisle des Especes d'Oiseaux mentionnees des environs de Lima, qui ne 



sont pas trouvees la par M. Kalinowski 398 



iv. Considerations generales sur la Faune Ornithologique des environs de 



Lima 402 



v. Postscriptum de Jean Stolzmann 410 



i. Liste des Oiseaux recueillis par JH. Jean Kalinowski dans les 

 environs de Lima et d'Ica {Cote Peruvienne). 



M. Jean Kalinowski, explorateur intrepide du Kamtschatka et de 

 la Coree, est parti en 1889 pour le Perou en qualite de correspon- 



