20 Avcs. 
AVES. 
[Ridgway, Robert.] Revisions of Nomenclature of certain North 
American Birds. P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, pp. 1-16. 
Taking E. Coues’s Check list of 1873 as a basis, the author reviews the 
changes already made, and institutes many others : a total number of 
upwards of 80 alterations, which cannot possibly be noticed in detail. 
Several geographical races are distinguished by un wieldly trinomials, the 
principal being in the Turdidce, Fringillidm^ Corvidce ; Phalcenoptilus 
[^Caprimulgidoi] and Nomonyx \^Anatidce\ are made new genera. For 
changes noted by the Recorder, see also under Corvidce^ Striges, Mnio- 
tiltidce. 
. See also Peuccea [^Frmgillidce.'\^ Buteo harlani, Hierofalco gyrfalco 
obsoletus [Falconidce], Sterna easpia [^Laridce], Ardea occidentalis 
\_Ardeidce^^ Alcidm^ Rallus longirostris \_Rallida}'}, Macrorrhamphun, 
Arquatella couesi, sp. n. [Scolopacidce], Grits fraterculiis \_Gruid(e\ 
Helmintophaga [^Mniotiltidce '] . 
Roberts, T. S. See Grus IGruido:]. 
Roberts, T. S., & Benner, F. A Contribution to the Ornithology of 
Minnesota. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v. pp. 11-20. 
A collecting trip from June 6th-20th, mostly on prairie ground with 
little timber, produced 86 species. 
Rood, E. H. The Birds of Cornwall and the Scilly Islands. Edited, 
with an Introduction, Appendix, and Brief Memoir, by J. E. 
Harting. London : 1880, 8vo, pp. 320. 
An interesting and well edited contribution on the ornithology of a 
county which has added several rare species to the British list. 
Rummer, G. Beitrag zur Ornithologie des Werrathales in Thuringen. 
J. f. 0. 1880, pp. 144-148. 
Russ, Carl. Die fremlandischen Stubenviigel [cf. Zool. Rec. xvi. Aves^ 
p. 26]. Pts. 7-10, published in 1880, conclude the work. 
Russo w, V. Die Ornis Ehst-, Liv-, und Ourlands, rait besonderer Beriick- 
sichtigung der Zug- und Brut-verhaltnisse. Nach dem Tode des 
Verfassers herausgegeben von Th. Pleske. Arch. Nat. Livl. (2) 
i.x. pp. 1-214, and 5 tables. 
An interesting catalogue of 280 species recorded from these little- 
known Russian Provinces, although the matter might easily have been 
compressed into a fourth of the actual space. 
Salvadori, T. Prodromus Ornitliologiae Papuasiae et Moluccarum. 
VIII. Campopliagidce^ Artamidai, Dicritridoi^ Laniidce. Ann. Mus. 
Genov, xv. pp. 32-48. 
Thirty -six species of the first (with Edoliisoma neglectum, sp. n.), 3 of 
the second, 10 of the third, and 49 of the fourth families (with Pachy~ 
cephala miosnomensis, sp. n.), are enumerated. 
. Remarks on two recently-published Papers on the Ornithology 
of the Solomon Islands. Ibis, 1880, pp. 126-131. 
The papers noticed are by E. R. Ramsay [c/*. Zool. Rec. xvi. Aves, 
