348 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Central Asia, and of his experiences and observations on 

 birds along the shores of Lake Geneva. 



Another contributor, H. C. Siebbers (p. Q7), has en- 

 deavoured to find out which of the races of the Green and 

 Great Spotted Woodpeckers inhabit Holland. An exami- 

 nation of a series of 28 Green Woodpeckers leads him to 

 the conclusion that Picus viridis pinetorum is the prevailing 

 form, but that in the north and west provinces the birds 

 showed variations towards P. v. pluvius, the British race. 

 In the case of the Spotted Woodpecker, Dryobates major 

 pinetorum was everywhere the breeding bird, but D. m. 

 major occasionally occurred on migration. 



From the pen of the same author is a paper on the birds 

 of Anhalt and its neighbourhood in Westphalia. 



Messager Ornithologique. 



[Messager Ornithologique. Edited by G. I. Poliakov. Obiralovka, 

 Moscow Govt. 4tli year, 1913.] 



This Russian journal has now reached its fourth year of 

 publication. As the matter is all in Russian except that 

 the table of contents is translated, it is impossible here to 

 do more than to indicate some of the principal papers con- 

 tained in the three numbers that have reached us. 



Of faunistic lists dealing with districts in Russia proper, 

 we find E. I. Katin on birds in the Kjelze Government and 

 E. W. Scharleman on Caucasian birds, while W. E. Uschakow 

 has prepared a list of the birds of Tarsk in the Tobolsk Govt. 

 N. A. Sarudny and S. I. Bilkewitch write on the Tiaus- 

 caspian region and north Persia and also on the ornithology 

 of Turkestan, and the editor continues his account of his 

 journey to Saissan-nor and Marka-kul in western Siberia. 



The following new forms are described : — 



Acrocephalus streperus intermedins Stantschinski (p. 34). 



Corvus macrorhynchus mandshuricus Buturlin (p. 40) . 



Passer montanus vo/gensis Ognew (p. 41). 



Remiza pendulina bostanjogli Sarudny (p. 46). 



Carpodacus rhodochlamys kotschubeii Sarudny (p. 165). 



Phylloscopus coUybita subsindianus Sarudny (p. 269). 



