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AYES. 
Walden [Arthur Hay], Viscount. A List of the Birds known 
to inhabit the Philippine Archipelago. Tr. Z. S. ix. pp. 125-252, 
pis. xxiii.-xxxiv. 
In this memoir, a complete account is given of the state of our knowledge 
of the birds inhabiting the Philippine Archipelago acquired since the days 
of Brisson and Sonnerat. The total number of species only reaches 219, 
a small number when compared with the riches of some of the adjoining 
districts. This poverty of species is accounted for by the fact of these 
islands being as it were a border land, linking the Indian and Papuan 
regions, but in which the diminution of Indian types is not compensated 
for by the number of Papuan forms found there. These views are care- 
fully worked out by tables showing the distribution of the genera found in 
the Philippines, and with respect to the adjoining lands. As the birds of 
this archipelago have received attention from ornithologists from early 
times, the nomenclature of the species is of an intricate nature. One of 
the chief features of this very important memoir is the full and careful 
way in which the synonymy of the species is unravelled, and the literature 
respecting them analyzed. 
. Description of a new Species of Pigeon from the Karen Hills. 
Ann. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 228. [^Columhid(B,'\ 
. Description of some undescribed Species of Birds discovered by 
Lieut. Wardlaw Ramsey in Burmah. Ann. N. H. (4) xv. pp. 
400-403. [^Capitonidw, Nectariniidai, Pycnonotidce, Timeliidai.'] 
. [See Blyth, E.] 
WiiiTMEE, S. J. List of Samoan Birds, with Notes on their Habits, &c. 
Ibis, 1865, pp. 436-447. 
An instructive account of Samoan birds, with notes on their habits, 
their native names, and other points of interest. This list of land birds 
includes 29 species. The names of ten others, as yet unobserved by 
the author, are given on the authority of other writers. 
— — . On a change in the Habits of the Didunculus strigirostris, P. Z. S. 
1875, p. 495. 
Wickham, H. A. Letter from, respecting the Range of the large 
Hyacinth-macaw. Tom. cit. p. 633. 
Wood-Mason, James. On the occurrence of a superorbital chain of 
Bones in the Arboricolce (Wood Partridges). Ann. N. H. (4) xvi. 
p. 145. 
Extracted from J. A. S. B. (n.s.) xliii. pt. 2 [1874]. 
Yarrow, H. C., & Henshaw, H. W. Report upon Ornitho- 
logical Specimens collected in 1871-73; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, 
Corps of Engineers, in charge. Washington: 1874, 8vo, pp. 
148. 
In this report, a list of the species collected during Lieut. Wheeler’s 
expedition is given, together with notes on their habits and the 
