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AVES. 
BY 
Howard Saunders, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 
The year 1878 shows no diminution in the amount of ornithological 
literature, and there is a notable increase in the number of works 
through which it is diffused ; it being, indeed, difficult to say in what 
class of periodicals some paper relating to Birds may not be found. The 
Recorder has endeavoured to avoid omissions, but the risk of these would 
be diminished, and the object of this work would be promoted, if, at the 
close of each year, authors would either remit separate copies, or at least 
a list of their papers, with the necessary indications of place and date of 
publication. In thanking those who have already done this, the Recorder 
would be glad to see their example more generally followed. He must 
also express his regret that owing to the rule against noticing works not 
actually published in, or prior to, 1878, he is prevented from recording 
several important papers in the Phil. Trans. Royal Society, on the 
Ornithology of Kerguelen’s Land and Rodriguez ; although the separate 
copies of some of them have been noticed long since in other publica- 
tions which are unfettered by similar restrictions. 
Amongst the publications illustrative of special geographical divisions 
the following may be cited. Palasarctic region : H. E. Dresser’s Birds 
of Europe (continuation), and H. Seebohm’s Ornithology of Siberia. 
Ethiopian region : B. du Bocage’s and J. M. Cabanis’s contributions. 
Indian region : A. O. Hume and W. Davison’s Birds of Tenasserim, and 
V. Legge’s Birds of Ceylon, and the late Marquis of Tweeddale on the 
Philippines. Australian region : T. Salvadori, on Papuan ornithology ; 
Layard and Tristram on New Caledonia and the New Hebrides. Neo- 
tropical region; G. N. Lawrence on F. ObePs explorations in the 
smaller West Indian Islands ; also P. L. Sclater and O. Salvin’s contri- 
butions. 
The General Subject, with Titles of Separate Works and 
OP THE most Important Papers Published in 
Proceedings of Societies, &c. 
Adams, Edward. Notes on the Birds of Michalaski, Norton Sound. 
Ibis, 1878, pp. 420-442. 
This paper is prefaced by a Memoir of the deceased author, from H. 
