AVES, 
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AVES 
BY 
R, B. Sharpe^ F.L.S.^ F.Z.S.^ &c. 
The bulk of the present ^ Record^ sufficiently testifies to the 
activity of ornithologists in .all parts of the globe. It may be. 
doubted if there has ever been a year so productive of genuine 
progress in this branch of science. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM. 
Cabanis, J., Reichenow, A., & Helm, M. General-Index zum\ 
Journal fur Ornithologie. Inhaltsverzeichniss der Ersten | 
15 Jahrgange, 1853-1867, enthaltend : Systematischer 
Index aller lateinischen Eamilien-, Genus- und Artnamen / 
sowie ein Autoren- und Sachregister und Verzeichniss der ' 
Abbildungen, in alphabetischer Ordnung. Cassel : 1870. 
8 VO, pp. 1-211. 
This supplies a great want. The title explains its scope. 
Harting, J. E. The Ornithology of Shakespeare, critically 
examined, explained, and illustrated. London: 1871. 8vo, 
pp. 321. 
A very good and pretty book, the result of six years^ labour, 
on an interesting subject. 
Hartlaub, G. Bericht liber die Leistungen in der Natur-'j 
geschichte der Vogel wahrend des Jahres 1870. Areh. fy 
Nat. xxxvii. Band ii. pp. 44. 
Remarkable for the absence of any allusion to the most im- 
portant ornitliological work of the ycar^^ (Zool. Rec. vii. p. 21)' 
— ' Die Vogel Ost-Afrika^s ^ of the author and Dr. Einsch. 
S ALVIN, O., & ScLATER, P. L. Indfex of the Ornithological^ 
Literature of 1870. Ibis, 1871, pp. 417-484. 
The titles of the various papers published during the year 
1870 are here collected and arranged alphabetically under the^ 
authors^ names, that of each new species being also mentioned, j 
