THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
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former, the following 7 genera are admitted and characterized : — Sylvia^ 
Phylloscopus, Hypolais^ Acrocephalus, Lusciniola, Cettia ; in the latter, 
Geocichla, Turdus, Merula^ Mimociclda, Catharus, Erithacus, Monticola^ 
Sialia, Euticilla, Myrmecocichla, and Saxicola. Ruticilla moussieri is 
considered to be “ undoubtedly a Pratincola” and as E,. B. Sharpe has 
treated the species which he considered as belonging to Pratincola in 
vol. iv. under the Muscicapidca, this bird is omitted altogether. For 
species described as new, renamed, and figured, see Turdidce and Sylviidce. 
[Seeboiim, H.] See also Scolecopliagus ferrugineus \_Icteridw'], Lanius 
major \_Laniidai'\. 
Seeley, H. G. Professor Carl Vogt on the Archcaopteryx. Geol. Mag. 
1881, pp. 300-309. 
A review of the paper already recorded. [Q/*. Zool. Rec. xvi. Aves, 
p. 35, and xvii. p. 28]. 
. On some Differences between the London and Berlin Specimens 
referred to ArcUmoptcryx, Tom. cit. p. 454, with plate of the Berlin 
example. 
Sharpe, R. B. Account of the Zoological Collections made during the 
Survey 6f H.M.S. ‘ Alert ’ in the Straits of Magellan and on the 
Coast of Patagonia. Birds. P. Z. S. 1881, pp, 6-18. 
This collection, carefully prepared and labelled by Dr. Coppinger, was 
principally obtained from the rainy districts on the west coast of Pata- 
gonia, and thence up to Coquimbo in Chili. It consists of 80 species 
[misprinted 81]. 
. On the Birds of Sandakan, North-east Borneo. Tom. cit. pp. 
790-800. 
Three large collections sent by W. B. Pryer consist of 134 species, 
several of which had not hitherto been recorded from Borneo, and one, 
Dicceum pryeri \_Diccdd(B\ is described as new. 
. Appendix ii. (Ornithology) to F. Oates’s {suprd^ p. 20)Matabele 
Land and the Victoria Falls, pp. 294-328, pis. a, b. 
This important and carefully made collection from the previously 
almost unknown district between Tati and the Zambesi seems to show 
that the birds have their nearest affinities with those of South-western 
Africa. The species recorded are 213 in number, Brady ornis oatesi 
{Laniidce) being described as new and figured, with Saxicola sTielleyi 
{Turdidoi). 
-. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or Perching Birds, in the Col- 
lection of the British Museum. Cichlomorphm : Part iii., containing 
the first portion of the Timeliidoi (Babbling Thrushes). Vol. vi. of 
series. \_Cf. Seeboiim, H., supra., p. 26.] 
This portion treats of 5 sub-families, viz., Brachypodiince, with 27 
genera; Troglodytincc, with 18 genera, one of which is Cinclus] Miminoi., 
or American Mocking Thrushes, 12 genera ; Myiadectince, 3 genera ; and 
Ptiloi'Jiynchina 3 , or Bower-birds, 6 genera. Pinarocichla, Ghlorocichla 
[^Pycnonotidce], Urocichla \ Troglodytidaf\, are proposed as new generic 
