ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS 



Made 



liN MONGOLIA 



by Dr. Donaldson Smith 



and Messrs. J.-E. and G.-L. Farnum. 



R. BOWDLER SHARPE, L. L. D., F. Z. S., ETC. 



In the Geographical Journal for 1898 (vol. XI, 

 p. 498-509), will be found an account of Dr. Donalson 

 Smith's « Journey through the Khin-ghan mountains », 



with his two friends. Leaving Peking on the 19th of 

 May 1897, the route of the travellers lay to the northward 

 through the Khin-ghan mountains to Dolon-Nor, « a large 

 trading centre between China and Mongolia », and thence 

 in a north-easterly direction to Tsitsihar and Vladivostock. 

 On their journey the three travellers made natural 

 history collections, and they have very kindly presented 

 the British Museum with a set of the birds, of which I have 

 prepared a list. The synonymy I have added affords a 

 better idea of the species and their distribution in Eastern 

 Asia than any long explanation 1 might give, as it points 

 out whether the species are already known to be Mongolian 

 or Chinese. Most of them are to be found in the pages of 

 Prjevalski's work and in the account of Berezowski's 

 collections in Gan-su; while the majority of them are 

 also included in David and Oustalet's Oiseaux de la Chine 



