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the Chiusaya Steppe, and Topucha, all localities near the 

 Russo-Mongolian border east of Lake Balkash in the Altai 

 mountains. 



Some 52 forms are enumerated, and among them are dis- 

 criminated new subspecies of Merlin [Falco aesalun lymani), 

 of Pine Grosbeak {Pinicola enucleator pacata), and of 

 Siberian Jay {Perisoreus infaustus opicus). The Pine 

 Grosbeak is founded on a single specimen and is dis- 

 tinguished by its bill-characters from the typical race, an 

 unsafe character on which to base a new subspecies, 

 especially where only one example was obtained. 



Dabbene and Lillo on two new Argentine Birds. 



[Description de deux nouvelles especes d'oiseaux de la Republic 

 Argentine, par Roberto Dabbene et Miguel Lillo. Anales Mus. Nac. 

 Hist. Nat. Buenos Ayj'es, xxiv. 1913, pp. 187-194, Lam. x., xi.] 



From the dry and desert-like valleys between the Andes 

 and the Sierra de Aconquija, in the north-west corner of 

 the Argentine, these two authors describe and figure a new 

 Parrot, Cyanolyseus andinus, which nests in holes in in- 

 accessible cliffs in those regions. 



They also describe and figure a new Tinamou, Calopezus 

 intermedius, from the province of Tucuman in the same part 

 of the Argentine. It lives in small flocks of eight to ten 

 individuals, obtaining scanty nourishment among the few 

 bushes that grow in those desolate regions at an altitude of 

 7000-8000 feet. 



Gifford on the Birds of the Galapagos. 



[Expedition of tbe California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos 

 Islands, 1905-1906.— VJ II. The Birds of the Galapagos Islands, with 

 Observations on the Birds of Cocos and Clipperton Islands (Columbi- 

 fornies to Pelecaniformes), by Edward Wiuslow Gifford. Proc. California 

 Acad. Sci. (4) ii. 1913, pp. 1-132, pis. 1-7.] 



This expedition was planned in 1905 by Mr. L. M. 

 Loomis, the Director of the Museum of the Academy at 

 San Francisco. Luckily a return was not made till after 



