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VIII.— Notices of recently published Ornithological Works. 
1. Pere David's f Third Journey in China.’ 
[Journal de mon troisieme Voyage d’Exploration dans 1’Empire Chinois: 
ouvrage contenant 3 cartes. Par M. l’Abbe Armand David, de la Con¬ 
gregation de la Mission. Two vols. Paris: 1875.] 
Pere David's name requires no introduction to the readers 
of f The Ibis.' We all know the extraordinary success that 
has attended his efforts to make known to science the natural 
wonders of the interior of the Chinese Empire. Many of us 
have seen the splendid new forms and brilliant novelties with 
which he has enriched the Museum of Paris, and have ad¬ 
mired the grand discoveries which have thrown a flood of light 
on the true relations of the Chinese avifauna. 
Pere David's earlier Journals* have been published in the 
Bulletin of the f Nouvelles Archives du Museum.' In these 
he has given us an account of his first expedition to Mongolia 
in 1860, and of his second remarkable journey to Setchuan 
and Moupin in 1868 and the following years. In the present 
volumes he presents us with a narrative of his third great 
journey, commenced in 1872, in which he traversed the cen¬ 
tral provinces of the empire, and made large collections in 
two previously unknown mountain-ranges of the interior. 
The pages of Pere David's diary are rife with interesting 
notes on the various birds met with, to which, even when 
borne down by severe sickness, he appears to have devoted 
unflagging attention. Leaving Pekin at the beginning of 
October 1872, our traveller journeyed nearly due south to 
the banks of the Hoang-ho, wdiich he crossed on the 24th of 
October, and, turning westward along its left bank, passed 
several months at various localities in the Tsing-ling moun¬ 
tains, which lie between this part of the Hoang-ho and some 
of the northern confluents of the Yang-tze. Having crossed 
to the south of the range, he embarked on a native boat on 
the 17th of April 1873, and descended the Han to Hankow, 
* Journal d’un Voyage dans le Centre de la Chine et dans le Thibet 
Oriental. Par M. l’Abbe Armand David. Nouv. Arch. Mus. d’H. N. 
vol. viii. et ix. (Bulletin). 
