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the -species, which are sufficient to enable them to be 
determined in most cases. 
At the end of the volume is given a complete list of the 
Burmese birds known to the author, with a table shewing 
their distribution in the different districts into which the 
country may be divided. Major Harington observes that 
the Northern Chin Hills are “ absolutely unknown ” and 
that the high peak of Saramati (12,000 feet) may probably 
have a Fauna of its own, so that there is still good work to 
be done in Burma by an enterprising Ornithologist. 
92. Hartert 3 s ‘ Birds of the Palaarctic Fauna. 3 * 
[Die Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna. Von Dr. Ernst Hartert. 
Heft v. Berlin, 1909.] 
The whole of the fifth part of the f Birds of the Palsearctic 
Fauna 9 is devoted to the great Family Muscicapidse, under 
which designation Dr. Hartert includes not only the 
Muscicapidse proper, but also the Sylviidse, Crateropodidse, 
and Turdidse of most authors. It is, no doubt, difficult to 
draw the lines between these four families, but we prefer the 
more familiar terms, although we admit that in many cases 
the task of distinguishing a Sylvian from a Thrush is 
severe. 
The following ten new species and subspecies are described 
in this Part:— Phylloscopus sibilatrix erlangeri (Morocco) ; 
Horeites flavolivacea intricatus (China) ; Sylvia undata toni 
(Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) ; Prinia gracilis yemenensis 
(Arabia) ; Crateropus caudatus altirostris (Mesopotamia); 
Ianthocichla affinis oustaleti (Yunnan) ; Ianthocincla rufigu- 
laris assamensis (Assam) ; I. r. occidentalis (N.W. Hima¬ 
layas) ; Trochalopteron lineatum grisescantior (Western 
Himalayas); T. lineatum gilgit (Cashmir and Gilgit). 
The true Thrushes will be treated in the next Part (VI.), 
which, we understand, will finish the first volume. 
We may call attention to the change proposed by 
Dr. Hartert in the name of one of our familiar species. It is 
* For notice of Heft iv. see ‘ Ibis,’ 1907, p. 489. 
