AVES. 
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Anthus campestris for A. Hchardiy Linota Unarm (of course not 
the Linnsean species) for L, montiwm, Perdioo gr< 2 ca for P. sauna- 
iilis, Sterna leucoptera for S. nigra, Puffinus obscurus for P. 
anglorum, and Pelecanus crispus for P. onocrotalus, Perdix 
coturnix of the former list is now altogether omitted, and it is 
suggested that Fringilla ccelebs should be F. spodiogenia. One 
hundred and five- species are included. 
Fatio, Victor. Distribution verticale des Sylviadees en Suisse. 
Bull. Soc. Orn. de Suisse, i. pp. 39-67. 
The author takes four localities, the borders of the Lake of 
Geneva, the Hasli, the Valley of Urseren, and the Upper Enga- 
dina, at all of which careful observations have been made. At 
the first, 24 species of Sylviidee occur, 21 breed, and two are 
resident; at the second, 19 occur, 16 breed, and one is resident; 
at the third, 18 occur, 12 or 14 breed, and none are resident ‘ 
and at the fourth locality 8 occur, 4 breed, and none reside. 
The general results are conveniently shown by means of tables. 
Eilippi, E. ub. Note di unViaggio in Persia. Mijano: 1865, 
8vo. pp. 398. 
The author was a member of an embassy sent, in 1862, by 
the Italian government to Persia, and in this work gives att 
account of the expedition from a zoological point of view, in 
which ornithology has a full share. The observations relating 
to birds are very numerous, and towards the end of the volume 
(pp. 344^-352) a complete list of the species which occurred 
between the Caucasus and Teheran is given. The spring-passage 
of birds over the Mediterranean is mentioned (pp. 6, 7), and the 
flocks of Puffinus anglorum which haunt the Bosphorus (p. 9) . 
Notice is also taken of the species observed near Tiflis (pp. 79, 
80), Mount Ararat (p. 97), and Tabriz, and especially the locust- 
destroying services of Pastor roseus (pp. 161-164), as well as of 
the ornithology of Sultanieh(p. 196), Casbin (pp. 211, 212), and 
Ask (p. 276) . The list of Persian birds includes 167 species, of 
which seven were the discoveries of the author and his com- 
panions. Five of these, Irania (gen. nov. SaxicoUnum) finoti, 
Dromolcea chi'ysopygia, Otocorys larvata, Emberisa cernutii, and 
Pious khan, were described in 1863 or 1864 (Archiv. per la Zoo- 
logia, &c., Modena, vol. iii. p. 377 et seq^ ; the two remaining 
are now announced as new under the names of Crateropus Sal- 
vador ii 2 ind Sylvia doriw. The avifauna of Western Persia is 
characterized (pp. 365, 366) by a very great prevalence of Eu- 
ropean species; besides the new discoveries just mentioned, it 
appears that there are only some five species of Passeres not 
found within the limits of Europe ; these are locus leucotis, Pra- 
tincola hemprichi, Serinus pusillus,.Erythrospiza obsoleta, and 
Garrulus melanocephalus. 
