AYES. 
BY 
R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c., 
AND 
James Murie, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 
The striking discoveries for the year 1874 are limited in number; but 
some remarkable books have nevertheless been produced during its course, 
the chief of which must be reckoned the great works on North American 
birds, by Messrs. Baird, Brewer, Coues, and Ridgway. The Malay 
Archipelago (especially Borneo) has received much elucidation with 
respect to its ornithology at the hands of Count Salvador!, while the 
ornithological discoveries by Dr. Meyer and Signor D’Albertis in New 
Guinea are enough to make the ornithological discoveries of 1874 more 
than usually noteworthy. Herr Fritsch’s tables on the migration of 
birds in various parts of Europe, based as they are on observations ex- 
tending over many years, cannot fail to throw much light upon this 
important phenomenon. The three principal ornithological journals 
exhibit their customary activity, and altogether in every branch of the 
science, steady progress has to be recorded. In anatomy, Mr. Garrod’s 
papers, and especially those on the value of the muscles in classification, 
deserve prominent notice. Fossil ornithology has received great atten- 
tion from M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Dr. Hector, and Dr. Haast; 
whilst Professor Owen’s description of a new dentigerous bird is one of 
the most interesting features in the history of the year. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM. 
Bocage, J. V. Barboza du. Die Glanzstaare Afrika’s monographisch 
bearbeitet von Dr. G. Hartlaub. J. Sc. Lisb. 1874, pp. 61-84. 
{^Sturnidce.'] 
Finsch, O. Literarischer Bericht. J. f. O. 1874, pp. 76-80. 
Reviews Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway’s work on North American 
birds. 
Hume, A. 0. Die Papageien. Str. Feath. ii. pp. 1-28. 
A review of the genus Palccornis as put forward in Dr. Finsch’s great 
Monograph of“the Parrots [Zool. Rec. iv. p. 83]. Certain of the criticisms 
are uncalled for, and unduly severe upon the last-named author, whose 
work was well done up to the date of publication, and who cannot be 
