THB GENERAL SUBJECT. 
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Sennett, Q . B. Notes on the Ornithology of the Lower Rio Grande 
of Texas, froi^ observations made during the season of 1877. Edited 
with annotations by Dr. Elliott Coues. Bull. U. S. Surv. Terr, 
iv. pp. 1-66. 
About 500 specimens were secured, 3 species of which were new to the 
American Avifauna, and 1 {Parula nigrilord) new to science. The last 
is described by E. Coues, by whom a new genus of doves (^JEcTimoptila) is 
also characterized. The field-notes are full, and very interesting. \_Mnio- 
tiltidaiy Columhidce, Icteridce, Strigidce, IbididcB.'] 
Sharpe, R. B. On a small Collection of Birds from the Ellice Islands. 
With a Note on other Birds found there, by the Rev. S. J. Whitmee. 
P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 271-273. 
Observations on a small collection of 6 species made by S. J. Whitmee, 
the only important species being A nous cceruleus (Bennett), which enables 
the author to show that it is really distinct from A. cinereus (Gould), with 
which, from want of material, the Recorder had united it [Lar^c?ce]. 
. On a new Species of Indicator^ with Remarks on other Species of 
the Genus. Tom. cit. pp. 793-795. 
A supplouuent to the author’s revision of the Indicatoridce, in Orn. 
Misc. i. pt. iii., with amended key to the species and description of 1 
malayanus^ sp. n. [^IndicatoridcB]. 
. A Note on Pceoptera luguhris. Tom. cit. pp. 802-804, pi. xlix. 
A rectification of the author’s synonymy as given in his Cat. B. Brit. 
M. iii. p. 281 [Muscicapidco]. 
. A Note on the Genus Artamus, and its Geographical Distribution. 
Orn. Misc. iii. pp. 179-202. 
In this synoptical revision, 16 species are admitted, one of which {A. 
venustus) is described as new [^Artamidce']. 
— — . Contributions to the Ornithology of Borneo. Part iii. On Two 
Collections of Birds from Sarawak. Ibis, 1878, pp. 414-419 [cf. 
Zool. Rec. xiv. Aves^ p. 23]. 
The first consists of 24 species, only one of which {Anous) is new to 
Borneo; but the second contained 16 species, one of which, Ixidia paro- 
ticalis, is new, and several had not before been obtained in that island 
[^Pycnonotidce, Muscicapidce^. 
— . On the Collections of Birds made by Dr. Meyer during his Expe- 
dition to New Guinea and some neighbouring Islands. MT. Mus. 
Dresd. 1878, pp. 349-372, pis. xxviii.-xxx. 
Dr. Meyer’s collection contained 18 species, which are here noticed, 
the synonymy of the Papuan and Molluccan birds being given in full, 
and some previous and erroneous determinations being corrected. Eight 
species, to which a very necessary index is given, are hete described as 
new \_Campophagidce'\^ and 3 other species are figured {^Falconidce, Cam- 
pophagidcs]. 
