THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Aves S 
Beklepsch, H. V. Preliminary Description of New Birds from South 
America, and remarks on some described species. Ibis, 1880, 
pp. 112-114. 
The novelties are Tanagra sclateri^ Tachijphonus interccdens \_Tana~ 
gridaf\, Hylocharis cyanea, subsp. viridiventris [ ZVnc/iiZet^ce] , Centurus ter- 
ricolor^ Ccleus immaculatas [_Picid(B\. 
Bieletzky, N. F. [“ Materials for the Physiology of the Eyes of Birds ” 
is the English rendering of a paper in Russian,] Charkow : 1879, 
rl. 8vo, pp. 76, 3 pis. 
Bicknell, E. P. See Loxia \FringilUdai\. 
Bingham, C. T. Additional Notes on the Birds of Teuasserim, and 
specially on those of the Thoungyeen Valley. Str. Feath. ix. 
pp. 138-198 (with sketch map of district). 
. See also Bucerotidce. 
Blanford, W. T. See Trochalopterum meridionale, sp. n. [Thneliido}]. 
Blasius, R,, Bohm,R., Roiiweder, J., & Sciialow, H. hi. Jahresbericht 
(1878) des Ausschusses fiir Beobachtungsstationen* der Vogel 
Deutschlands. J. f. O. 1880, pp. 12-97. [Cy. Zool. Rec. xv. Aves, 
P. 3.] 
The results of the observations of many naturalists in various parts of 
Germany on a total number of 259 species. 
, Muller, A., Roiiweder, J., & Sciialow, H. iv. Jahres- 
bericht (1879) des Ausschusses fiir Beobachtungsstationen der Vogel 
Deutschlands. Tom. cit. pp. 355-407. 
Another yearly analysis, treating of 264 species. 
Bocage, j. V. Barboza du. Aves de Zambezia e do Transvaal, col- 
ligidas pelo Major Serpa Pinto. J. Sc. Lisb. vii. pp. 133-139. 
A list of 40 species, none of which are new, and few rare, but interest- 
ing for locality, 38 being from the Upper Zambesi, near the Victoria 
Falls. 
— -. Critical remarks on A. Reichenow’s paper (^n/rd, p. 19), on O. 
Schiitt’s collection from Angola : tom. cit. pp. 184-191 ; also remarks 
on E. Oustalet’s paper {cf. Zool. Rec. xvi. Aves^ p. 22) on Birds from 
the Ogowe ; torn. cit. pp. 192-196. 
. Aves das possessoes Portuguezas d’Africa occidental, xix. lista. 
Tom. cit. pp. 229 ; xx. lista, op. cit. viii. pp. 62-70. 
List of collections sent by Senhor Anchieta from Caconda, the first 
paper treating of 93 species, 7 of them not having hitherto been recorded 
from Angola, Hyphantornis temporalis [Ploceidce] being described as 
new ; whilst the second list contains 92 species, 
. Melanges ornithologiques. Especes nouvellos, rares, ou peu con- 
nues d’ Angola et de la Cote do Loango. Op. cit. viii. pp. 49-61. 
On two collections : one made by Lucan & Petit on the coast of Loango ; 
the other by Anchieta at Caconda ; 17 species are noticed, Dendrobatus 
