THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Aves 15 
fco trace the origin of the domestic fowl. This paper has also been trans- 
lated into French by Count Marschall ; Bull. Soc. Philom. (7), ii. 
p. 108. 
Jordan, D. S. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United 
States. 2nd edition. Chicago : 1878. [See Zool. Rec. xiii. Aves, 
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Seven species of birds are added to those in the first edition. 
JouAN, Henri. Notes sur la Distribution Geographique des Oiseaux 
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A review of the distribution of birds in the Sandwich Islands, the 
Marquesas, the Society, and Paumotou groups, New Caledonia, the 
New Hebrides, the Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Ireland, New 
Gruinea, and New Zealand. 
Kutter, — . Betrachtungen fiber Systematik und Oologie vom Stand- 
punkte der Selectionstheorie. J. f. O. 1878, pp. 300-348. 
The concluding portion of a long article. [C/*. Zool. Rec. xiv. AveSj 
p. 12.] 
Lacordaire, Leon. Catalogue des Oiseaux observes de 1845 ^ 1874, 
dans les departements du Doubs et de la Haute-Saone. Revu et 
public par le Dr. Louis Marchant. Besan9on : 1878, 8vo, pp. 181. 
Langdon, F. W. Observations on Cincinnati Birds. J. Cin. Soc. N. H. 
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. A Revised List of Cincinnati Birds. Tom. cit. pp. 167-193. 
A useful revision of the author’s previous paper \cf. Zool. Rec. xiv. 
Ares, p. 13], comprising 266 identified species, and a valuable addition to 
the natural history of Ohio. 
Landois, H. Missbildung bei Hfihnereiern. Mit 26 Abbildungen 
monstroser Formen. Zool. Cart. 1878, pp. 17-24. 
Lassere, R. Sur deux cas de monstruosites doubles ofPerts par deux 
jeunes poulets. Bull. Soc. Toulouse, 1878, pp. 138-141. 
Lawrence, G. N. Descriptions of Seven New Species of Birds from the 
Island of St. Vincent, West Indies. Ann. N. York Ac. i. pp. 147-153. 
[See Turdus [Turdidce)., Myiadestes (^Sijlviidce), Thryothorus {Troglody- 
tidce)^ Certhiola {Ccerebidce), Leucopeza {Mniotiltidce), Callisfe {Tana- 
gridce)']. 
. Descriptions of supposed New Species of Birds from the Islands 
of Granada and Dominica, West Indies. Tom. cit. pp. 160-163. 
Three species are described from Granada and 1 from Dominica, which 
see under Turdus [Turdidce]., Thryothorus \_Troglodytidce], Quiscalus 
[/cienWo}], Blacicus [^Tyrannidce]. 
. Catalogue of the Birds of Dominica from the Collections made 
for the Smithsonian Institution by F. A. Ober, together with his 
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Details and field-notes on 66 species which had hitherto been only 
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