20 Aves. 
AVES. 
Nehrkorn, a. Die Riddagshauser Teiche. J. f. O. 1876, pp. 154-162. 
Gives a list of birds observed in the vicinity of this lake. 
Nelson, E. W. Additions to the Avifauna of Illinois, with Notes on 
other species of Illinois Birds. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i. pp. 39-44. 
Newton, Alfred. A History of British Birds, by the late William 
Yarrell. 4th ed. Parts 9 & 10. London : 1876. 8vo. 
In these two numbers, the British species of Emherizidm^ and the 
greater part of the Fringillidce^ are discussed. 
. On the Species of Hypsipetes inhabiting Madagascar and the 
neighbouring Islands. Orn. Misc. ii. pp. 41-62. 
A full account of the 4 species found in the district referred to, illus- 
trated, with a plate representing the full form of H. crassirostris, and 
the heads of the other three, to show the different colour of irides. 
. On the Assignation of a Type to Linnaean Genera, with Special 
Reference to the Genus Strix. Ibis, 1876, pp. 94-105. 
In this paper, it is maintained that the species in a Linnaean genus 
which should be selected as the type of that genus, is the one of which 
the single name, as used by pre-Linnaean writers, was chosen by Linnaeus 
as the name of the genus to which he referred it. According to this view, 
the type of the genus Strix is S. stridula^ or the Brown Owl, that being 
the Strix of older authors. [See Zool. Rec. xii. p. 65.] 
— — . Note on a Dutch Translation of Pliny’s Natural History, and on 
a print of the' Dodo contained therein.. P. Z. S. 1876, pp. 333 & 334. 
. On some Ornithological Errors in the “ Reliquiae Aquitanicae.” 
Ann. N. H. (4) xvii. pp. 168-170, 336. 
Corrects a number of statements in the Ornithological part of this 
work. (See T. Rupert Jones, tom. cit. p. 263.) 
. & Newton, E. On the Psittaci of the Mascarene Islands. Ibis, 
1876, pp. 281-289. 
The Parrots of Mauritius, Reunion, Rodriguez, and the Seychelles, 
are discussed in this paper. Seven indigenous species are recognized, 
of which 4 survive, though one may be said to be expiring ; 3 are quite 
extinct. Palceornis wardi is figured. [^Psittaci.'] 
Noll, F. C. Die Erscheinungen des sogenannten Instinctes. Zool. 
Gart. 1876, pp. 271-278, 317-325, 345-354. 
Treats of the migration, &c., of birds. 
Norgate, Frank. Notes on the Nesting Habits of certain Birds, and 
Remarks with a View to their Encouragement by the Erection of 
Nesting Boxes. Tr. Norw. Soc. ii. pp. 195-206. 
Oates, Eugene W. A note on Pellorneum minor, Hume, and P. tickelli, 
Blyth. Sfr. Feath. 1876, p. 406. [ Timeliidce.'] 
Ogden, J. A. Remarks on Ptilorhis wilsoni, Ogden. P. Ac. Philad. 
1876, p. 182. lParadiseidoi.~\ 
