THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
,Aves 8 
]5it)Dulpii, John. Oii the Birds of Gilgit. Ibis, 1881, pp. 35-102. 
During a residence of two years in this remote district to the north- 
west of Cashmere, 245 species were obtained. The exploration of this 
new ornithological ground throws considerable light upon the lines of 
migration, and the geographical distribution of Palaearctic species. Some 
valuable foot-notes are contributed by J. Scully, and bear his initials, 
and numerous remarks by G. F. L. Marshall are distinguished in a simi- 
lar manner. [This paper has been reprinted in Str. Feath. vol. ix. (dated 
1880 !) pp. 301-3G6, with some characteristic foot-notes by A. 0. Hume.] 
. See also Propasser rhodometopus , sp. n. \_Fringillidof\. 
Bingham, C. H. T. Additional Notes on the Nidification of Birds in 
British Burmah. Str. Feath. ix. pp. 471-475. 
On the nests and eggs of 6 species, with notes by A. O. Hume. 
Blanford, W. T., in J. A. S. B. 1. Pt. ii. pp. 265 & 266, gives an 
estimate of the species of birds found in British India and its 
Dependencies, including Baluchistan and the Mergui Archipelago : 
a total of 1681. 
Blasius, W., & Nehrkorn, A. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Vogel- 
fauna von Borneo (nach den Sammlungen des Herrn Dr. Platen). 
JB. Ver. Braunschweig, 1880-81, pp. 60 [sep. copy]. 
83 species are enumerated, with collector’s notes and authors’ remarks ; 
the arrangement being after Salvadori. 
Blyth, E. (the late), & Tegetmeier, W. B. See Gruidce. 
Bocage, j. V. Barboza du. Ornithologie d’Angola, 2me Partie. [Cf. 
Zool. Rec. xiv. Aves, p. 2], Lisbonne: 1881, royal 8vo. 
The second and concluding portion of this valuable work. With this 
volume are issued : — pis. numbered v.-viii., x. & ii., an Introduction 
(pp. xi.), a Table showing geographical distribution (pp. xxxii.), and 
pp. 257-576. The Angolan species here noticed amount to 673, and 
if the coast of Loango be included, the total will swell to 698. This 
avifauna does not tend to confirm the belief of some ornithologists 
that Angola forms a distinct sub-division of the Ethiopian region. 
Two species are described as new, Turtur amhiguus \_Columbce], Fran- 
colinus jinsclii [Pliasianidce], and several interesting or recently dis- 
covered species are figured, for which see Cossypha ITurdidce'], Parus 
[Pan'cZce], Hylypsornis [(7er^7^^^c?a;], Lamprotornis, LamjJrocolius^ Plioli- 
dauges [Sturnidai], Anthus \_Motacillidaf\^ Mirafra \_Alaudidaf\. 
. Aves das possessoes portuguezas d’Africa occidental, xxi lista. 
J. Sc. Lisb. viii. pp. 120-125 (No. xxx.). 
On 34 species (none of them new), sent from Caconda by Anchieta, 
with that collector’s interesting notes. 
Bock, Carl, in The Head Hunters of Borneo, &c. (London, 1881, 
4to, Appendix iii. pp. 331-333), gives a list of the species obtained 
by him when collecting for the late Lord Tweeddale ; this list being 
avowedly compiled from papers by the above, and by R. G. Wardlaw 
Ramsay \cf. Zool. Rec. xvii. Aves, p. 18]. 
