4 Aves. 
AVES. 
paper, “Melanges ornithologiques ” [which see]. In the seventeenth 
list of birds from the same source, comprising 105 species, 12 appear 
to be novelties, 2 of which \_Nectariniidce\ are left for G. E. Shelley to 
describe, and 1 [^Caprimulgidce] is here first described. There is also a 
list of 1 1 species from Cazembe, north of the Quanza. 
[Bocage, J. V. B. DU.] Melanges ornithologiques. J. Sc. Lisb. vi. 
pp. 208-213, 254-259. \_Cf. ^ool. Rec. xiv. Aves^ p. 2.] 
In the first, 4 new species are described from Angola, one of them 
being made the type of a new genus \_NectariniidcB, Certhiidce^ Laniidod\. 
In the last, 7 new species and 1 new genus are described, from the same 
source [See Nectarinia (Nectariniidce), Hylypsornis, g.n., (Certhiidce : 
the first recorded occurrence of this family in the .^iEthiopian region), 
Hirundo {Hirundinidce), Platystira, Muscicapa (Muscicapidce), Tricholais 
{Sylviidce), Sharpia, g.n., and Penethria {Ploceidce)]. 
Bockmann, F. Ornithologische Beitrage zur Fauna der Nieder-Elbe. 
Verb. Ver. Hamb. 1878, pp. 252-270. 
126 resident species, 66 migrants, and 66 irregular visitants are recorded 
from the Lower Elbe. 
Boucard, Adolph. On Birds collected in Costa Rica. P. Z. S. 1878, 
pp. 37-71, pi. iv. 
The result of five months’ diligent collecting was 258 species, many of 
which proved to be new, and have already been described ; 1 {Zonotrichia 
vulcani) is here described for the first time, and there are notes on many 
others of interest. \_Fringillidce.'\ 
. Liste des Oiseaux r^colt^s au Guatemala en 1877. Ann. Soc. Linn. 
Lyon, 1878, pp. 167-216 [only separate cupy, pp. 47, seen by 
Recorder]. 
A catalogue of 273 species, with remarks upon their habitat and com- 
parative abundance or rarity. > 
Bouvier, a. Sur une Collection Ornithologique de TUganda, Royaume 
de M’Tesa, Afrique Centrale (lef article). Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. ii. 
pp. 437-459. 
In this first paper of a series, 34 species are enumerated, 1 of which 
(^Turdus piaggice) is described as new. \_Turdidoi']. 
& Sharpe, R. B. [See Sharpe.] 
Brewer, T. M. Changes in our North American Fauna. Bull. Nutt. 
Orn. Club, hi. pp. 49-52. ^ 
On the addition of Totanus ochropus, ZEgialitis hiaticulay and Larus 
canus to the American list, and the rejection therefrom of Podiceps cris- 
tatus. See also Junco \Fringillidce\ Stercorarius [Laridod], Rhyacophilus 
[^Scolapacidoi]. 
. Notes on Certain Species of New England Birds, with additions 
to his Catalogue of the Birds of New England. P. Bost. Soc. xix. 
pp. 301-309. 
Late industrious research has added 21 species of rare or accidental 
occurrence to the New England List. ' 
