THE GENERAL SUBJECT. AveS 3 
Baldamus, a. C. E. Illustrirtes Handbuch der Federviehzucht. Die 
Tauben und das iibrige Ziergefliigel. Dresden : 1878, 8vo, pp. 451, 
124 illustrations. 
Balfour, F. M., & Sedgwick, A. On the existence of a rudimentary 
Head-Kidney in the embryo Chick. Phil. Trans, xxvii. pp. 443-446 
Ball, V. From the Ganges to the Godaveri. On the distribution of 
Birds, so far as it is at present known, throughout the hilly region 
which extends from the Rajmehal Hills to the Godaveri Valley. 
Str. Feath. vii. pp. 191-235. 
Beccari, Odoardo. Letter dated from Kajd Tanam, Sumatra, 8th 
September, 1878, mentioning the principal species of birds observed. 
Ann. Mus. Genov, xiii. p. 405. 
Bell, F. Jeffrey. [See Muller, Johannes.] 
Bicknell, E. P. Evidences of the Carolinian Fauna in the Lower 
Hudson Valley, principally from observations taken at Riverdale, 
N.Y. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii. pp. 128-132. 
Bigg- Wither, T. P. Pioneering in South Brazil. 2 vols., 8vo. 
London : 1878. 
An account of three years of forest and prairie life in the province of 
Parand, with many interesting field- notes on the birds observed. 
Bingham, C. T. See Leptoptila [^CiconiidcB]. 
Blakiston, T. Letter rectifying erroneous identifications in R. Swin- 
hoe’s paper on Birds of Hakodate \_Cf. Zool. Rec. xiii. Aves^ p. 31]. 
Ibis, 1878, p. 385. 
& Pryer, H. a Catalogue of the Birds of Japan. Ibis, 1878, 
pp. 209-250. 
This revised list contains 313 species, but of some the identification is 
uncertain, and about 50 skins have to be determined by H. Seebohm. 
Blanford, W. T. See Gygnus [Anatidce], Ruticilla \_Sylviid(B]'. 
Blasius, R., Bohm, R., Reichenow, A., Rohweder, J., Schalow, H. 
Jahresbericht (1877) des Ausschusses ftir Beobachtungsstationen der 
Vogel Deutschlands. J. f. 0. 1878, pp. 370-436. 
The second year of this useful compendium, the result of the observa- 
tions of many German ornithologists. 
Blasius, R. Skizzen aus dem Riesengebirge. Orn. Centralbl. 1878, 
pp. 121 & 122, 129 & 130. 
. Ornithologia aus Braunschweig. Tom. cit. pp. 145 & 146. [See 
also Circus {Falconidcc)']. 
Bocage, j. V. Barboza du. Aves das possessoes portuguezas d’Africa 
occidental, xvi. lista, J. Sc. Lisb. vi. pp. 193-206 ; xvii. lista, tom. cit. 
pp. 260-280. 
The sixteenth list treats of two collections sent by Senhor Anchieta 
from Caconda, one containing 52 and the other 76 species: the novelties 
in these are merely enumerated, being leally described in the next 
