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problems in the faunas of both countries. Hitherto we have 
had no work to refer to on this subject, except He Filippi's 
* Note di un Viaggio in Persia/ and various smaller memoirs 
and fragmentary notices. Mr. Blanford bases his work mainly 
on the collections made by Major St. John, with the assist¬ 
ance of a native collector from the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 
in the years 1869-71, together with those formed by himself 
in 1872 during the expedition of which an account is given 
in the first volume of the present work. As regards birds, 
the united collections contained 1236 specimens, belonging 
to 248 species, mostly from Southern Persia and Baluchistan, 
Mr. Blanford, however, has not failed to work up the refer¬ 
ences to birds collected or observed in Persia by previous 
travellers, so as to make his ornithological account of the 
country as complete as possible. Still the number of species 
as yet ascertained to inhabit Persia (384) is, as Mr. Blanford 
observes, not large, and it is probable that further research 
will add greatly to the list. 
The new species discovered by Mr. Blanford and his coad¬ 
jutors in Persia have been already described in f The Ibis'*. 
Mr. Blanford now gives us excellent figures from Mr. Keu- 
lemans's pencil of many of these novelties, which serve to set 
off his attractive volume. In fine we may say that Blan¬ 
ford's f Zoology of Persia' is indispensable to the student of 
Pabearctic ornithology. 
8. Finsch 3 s ‘ Ornithology of the Pacific Islands 3 : Part ii. 
[Zur Ornitkologie der Siidsee-Inseln. II. Ueber neue und weniger __ 
gekannte Vogel von den Viti-, Samoa- und Carolinen Inseln, von Dr. Otto 
Finsch in Bremen. Journal des Museum GodefFroy. Heft xii. 4to. 
Hamburg: 1876.] 
In this memoir Hr. Finsch continues his account of the 
ornithological novelties obtained by the collectors of the Mu¬ 
seum GodefFroy in the Fiji, Samoan, and Carolina Islands, 
in his usual excellent style. The new species described are :— 
Ptilotis xanthophrys from the Navigators', and Zoster ops po- 
napensisj Volvocivora insperata , Myiagra pluto, Khipidura 
* See Ibis, 1873, pp. 86-90, 225-227 j 1874, pp. 225-227. 
