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1878. Saunders, H.— Continued. , , , 



Oavia subgg. Melagavia, Cirrhocephala, Bp., Naum., 1854, pp. 212, 213. (Cirrhocephalug, 

 Bruch.) 1857. BrucUgavia, Bp., G. A., ii, p. 228: a joke. 1854. ProcellaTmsiv<i Epitelarm, 

 Bp., Naum., pp. 211, 2i;i ; type neglectus=scoresbii, juv. (done to "chaff" Cabanas). 1857. 

 OlupeUarrs, Bp., C. A., ii, p. 220; i. /m«cms, and so forth. 



1878. Shakpe, R. B. Ou a small Collection of Birds from the Ellice Islands. . . . 



With a Note on the other Birds fonnd there, by the Rev. S. J. Whitmee. 



< P. Z. S., Feb. 19, 1878, pp. 271-274. 



The coUection consi.sts almost entirely of Tei-ns, 5 spp. of which are given, with an Ardea- 

 The synonymy of the two Grey Pacific Noddies, alleged to be wrongly given by Saunders 

 (P. Z. S., 1876, p. 671) is worked out, Anous cinereus and Anous cceruleus being differentiated. 



1879. Brewer, T. M. The Black Skimmer [Rhynchops nigra] in Massachusetts. 



< Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, iv. No. 4, Oct., 1879, p. 243. 



1879. BOARDMAN, G. A. Rhynchops nigra in the Bay of Fundy. < The Oologist, v, 

 No. 2, Aug., 1879, pp. 13, 14. 



An account of the remarkable flight of these birds, northward from the Middle and South- 

 ern States, which occurred this year. 

 1879. Brewster, W. The Terns [Sternime] of the New England Coast. < Bull. 

 Nutt. Ornith. Club, iv, No. 1, Jan. , 1879, pp. 13-22. 

 A well- written popular account of habits, &c. 

 1879. " C. E. P." and " R. H." The Black Skimmer [Rhynchops nigra] in New Jersey. 



< Forest and Stream, xiii, Oct. 2, 1879, p. 684. 

 Note of capture. 



1879. Deane, R. The Black Skimmer (Rhynchops nigra) in New England. < Bull. 



Nutt. Ornith. Chih, iv, No. 4, Oct., 1879, pp. 242, 243. 

 1879. " F. M." The Gull's Flight. < Science News, i, No. 15, June 1, 1879, p. 240. 



On the mechanics of the case. 

 1879. Goss, N. S. Bonaparte's Gull [Larus bonapartii] in Kansas. < Bull. Nutt. 



Ornith. Club, iv, No. 3, July, 1879, pp. 190, 191. 

 1879. Henshaw, H. W. Occurrence of the Caspian Tern (Sterna caspia) upon the 



Coast of Virginia. < Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, iv. No. 4, Oct., 1879, pp. 243, 244. 

 1879. Maynard,C.J. The Kittiwake Gull. (Rissa tridactyla.) <^Totim and Country 



(newspaper of Boston, Mass.) for August, 1879. 

 Being Chap. VI of his Wanderings of a Naturalist. 

 1879. Richmond, C. A. A Tame Gull [Larus marinus]. <l Forest and Stream, xii, 



June 12, 1879, p. 365. 

 Notice of a specimen kept in captivity for twenty years. 

 1879. "K. H. R. M." [R. H. Robertson and G. B. Grinnell.] Northern Range of 



the Black Skimmer [Rhynchops nigra]. <C Forest and Stream, xiii, Nov. 6, 



1879, pp. 784, 785. 

 Notice of capture of this species at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., ty Mr. Eobertson, in Aug., 



1879, with introduction by G. B. Grinnell, noting the occnrrence of the species in New Eng- 

 land during the same summer. 



