436 Messrs. Sclater and Finsch's Index to the- 



fields Catalogue to be from Afghanistan. Suggests that 

 Yunx indica of Gould is not Indian, but is founded on a spe- 

 cimen of the African Yunx pectoralis. 



Bocage, J. V. Barboza du. 



Aves das possessdes Portuguezas da Africa occidental. Jour. 

 Sc. Lisb. 1872, pp. 66-71. 



Contains an account of a new collection of birds made by 

 Sr. Anchieta on the river Coroca, south of Mossamedes. 

 There were 99 skins, referable to 46 species. A Dryoscopus 

 is regarded as new but not named ; and a Tartar described is 

 doubtfully referred to T. decipiens. 



BoRGGREVE, Dr. B. 



[See Droste, Ferdinand Baron.] 



Brandt, Dr. Alexander. 



Ueber ein grosses fossites Vogelei aus der Umgegend von 

 Cherson. Bull. Ac. Imp. St. Pet. xviii. p. 158; Mel. 

 Biol. viii. p. 730. 



See translation of this paper in ' The Ibis' for January 1874. 



Brehm, A. E. 



1. Gefangene Vb'gel. Erster Theil, Erster Band: Pfleger 

 ■and Pfieg/inge, Sittiche and Kbrnerfresser. 1 vol. pp. 620, 

 tab. iv. Leipzig und Heildelberg : C. F. Winter, 1872. 



In conjunction with Bodinus, Bolle, Cabanis, Finsch, Girt- 

 anner, and many other ornithologists, the well-known popular 

 author gives a full history of birds kept in confinement, and 

 of the manner of feeding and keeping them, &c. The first 

 volume of this very useful work contains the Parrots and 

 Grain-eaters, of which 628 species are described, most of them 

 by Dr. O. Finsch. 



2. Remarks on the Breeding o/Textor alecto and other Birds 

 in the Berlin Aquarium. J. f. O. 1872, pp. 239. 



Brehm, Reinhold. 



Remarks on the Rapacious Birds of Spain. J.f. O. 1872, 

 p. 395. 



These remarks were addressed to a special meeting of the 

 Deutsche ornithologische Gesellschaft, and are accompanied 

 by a discussion on the much-disputed Aquila adalberti. 



