163 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Of faunistic articles : — 



H. Frhr. Geyr von Schweppenburg (pp. 146-161) writes 

 oil the birds observed during the last two years in East and 

 West Prussia. 



Dr. Erich Hesse (pp. 618-630) gives an account of a 

 great resort of the Common Crane, the " Havellandisches 

 Luch/' a marshy and comparatively wild region about six 

 miles north-west of Berlin, where he has observed these 

 birds at close quarters for many years. 



N. Sarudny and M. Harms (pp. 630-661) continue their 

 studies on the birds of Persia. In the present coatributioa 

 they discuss the Sparrows of the genera Petronia, Gymnoris, 

 and Passer, of which they recognize twelve distinct forms. 



Dr. H. Weigold (pp. 1-40 & 561-597) spent the spring 

 of 1911 in western Asia, and in the first article he writes 

 on the birds of the neighbourhood of Urfa in north-western 

 Mesopotamia, where he found that the river Euphrates forms 

 a boundary between two zoogeographical regions ; to the west 

 of the river Agrobates galactoides syrica was the breeding 

 bird, on the east A. g . familiaris . The mouth of March was 

 spent in the valley of the Menander inland from Smyrna; 

 in his second contribution he gives some field-notes of the 

 birds seen there. 



H. Grote (pp. 125-142) concludes his notices of the 

 birds of the south-east portion of German East Africa ; no 

 new forms are described. 



Adalbert Klaptocz (pp. 444-455) writes on the birds 

 collected or met with by him in French Guinea. Short 

 field-notes are given and no new species are described. 



Erwin Stresemann (pp. 597-611) contributes an article 

 on a collection of birds made by Dr. O. Tauern in Mysol, 

 one of the Molucca Islands. This has been separately 

 noticed (see p. 153). 



Of systematic papers : — 



O. Neumann and 0. Graf Zedlitz revise the genus Cerco- 

 mela, containing a number of Chat-like birds from the desert 

 country of north-east Africa and south-west Asia. Four 



