2 Aves. 
AYES. 
Stevenson. The observations, which are most interesting, were made as 
long ago as 1850-51, and had they then been published would have 
anticipated several recent discoveries. [Norton Sound is in N.W. 
America, about 63® N., 162® W.] Perhaps the most remarkable birds 
obtained there, were the Palsearctic species, Cyanecula suecica \_Sylviid(B\ 
and Motacilla fiava \_MotacillidcB\ 
Adamson, 0. Murray. A Naturalist’s View of the Extension of the 
Close-Time of the Sea Birds Preservation Act in Northumberland, 
and on the Protection of Wild Birds generally. Tr. North. Dur. vii. 
pt. 1, pp. 108-125. 
Allen, J. A. Description of a Fossil Passerine Bird from the Insect- 
bearing Shales of Colorado. Am. J. Sci. (3) xv. pp. 381-384, and 
also Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. iv. No. 2, pp. 423-445. 
In the absence of the bill it is impossible to assign the species to any 
particular family, but the fossij (of which two cuts are given) conveys 
on the whole the impression of Fringilline affinities. It is named Paleo- 
spiza hellay g. & sp. nn. \^FringilUdce\. 
. A List of the Birds of Massachusetts, with Annotations. Bull. 
Ess. Inst. X. pp. 3-37. 
A very carefully compiled local catalogue, divided into five sections, 
showing 316 species of ascertained occurrence, 135 being breeders ; a third 
section treats of probable occurrences, and the other two of introduced 
species (6), and rare visitants (90). 
, An inadequate “ Theory of Birds’ Nests.” Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 
iii. pp. 23-32. 
A criticism of Mr. A. R. Wallace’s essay, which was originally pub- 
lished in that author’s ” Contribution to the Theory of Natural Selec- 
tion,” in 1870. 
Anderson, A. See Prinia \_Sylviid(B]. 
Armit, W. E. See Poephila [^Ploceid(B\, 
Auohey, S. Notes on the Nature of the Food of the Birds of Nebraska. 
1st Ann. Rep. U.S. Entom. Comm, for 1877. Appendix II. pp. 13-62, 
1878. 
The result of an important series of observations on upwards of 1000 
specimens belonging to 250 species, during 13 years, principally with 
regard to locust-eating, a taste which appears to prevail not only amongst 
the Passerine species, but in some members of Accipitres, PicaricBy 
Gallinm, Grallm, and Anatidce. 
Ayres, Thomas. Additional Notes on the Ornithology of the Trans- 
vaal. Communicated by John Henry Gurney. Ibis, 1878, pp. 
281-301, 406-411. 
Further supplementary lists [cf. Zool. Rec. xiii. Aves, p. 2, and xiv. 
Aves, p. 1], making the total number of species observed 307 ; with use- 
ful notes on their habits, plumage, &c. [See Enncoctonus {Laniidoe), 
Acrocephalus, Phylloscopus, Sylvia {^Sylviidce), Ardetta (^Ardeidai).'\ 
