THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
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Bartlett, Edward. Second List of Mammals and Birds collected by 
Mr. Thomas Waters in Madagascar. P. Z. S. 1879, pp. 767-773, 
pi. Ixi. [C/. Zool. Rec. xii. p. 26.] 
Twenty-three species of birds are enumerated, amongst which Cypselus 
halstoni \^Cypselidcf}'\ and Zapornia watersi [^Rallidce] are described as 
new. 
Beerbohm, J. See Rhea darwini \_Strutliionidoi]. 
Belding, L. a Partial List of the Birds of Central California. Edited 
by R. Ridgway. P. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. [March 21, April 22, 1879], 
pp. 388-449. 
This excellent paper, based upon observations during twenty, and 
collections made during the last two, years, treats of 220 species, deter- 
mined where necessary by R. Ridgway, who has also undertaken their 
nomenclature. 
Bemmelen, a. a. van. Mededelingen over nederlandsche Vogels. 
Tijdschr. Nederl. Dierk. Ver. iv. pp. 69-104. 
Berengier, Theophile. La Nouvelle-Nursie. Paris: 1879. 
In this description of a Benedictine colony on the Moore River, near 
Perth, West Australia, there is (pp. 285-308) a kind of list, with descrip- 
tions of a somewhat popular nature, of the birds observed. 
Berlepsch, H. V. Eine neue Gattung und neue Arten aus Siidamerika. 
Orn. Centralbl. 1879, p. 63; also (at greater length) J. f. O. 1879, 
pp. 206-210. 
See CalUthraupis, g. n. [^Tanagridai]'^ Basileuterus \^MniotiUidm~\y 
Pachyrrhamphus [^Cotingidcel, Panychlora \Trochilidai\ spp. nn. 
Bessels, Emil. Die Amerikanische Nordpol-Expeditionen. Leipzig : 
1879, 8vo, pp. 647. 
This work contains several notices of Arctic birds, especially on 
pp. 465-468, where the identity of a species of the Hirundinidce is dis- 
cussed. 
Bianconi, G. G. Di alcuni giganteschi avanzi di Uccelli referibile pro- 
babilmente all’ Aepyornis o Ruck. Rend. Acc. Bologn. 1877-78, 
pp. 167&168. 
Remarks on a gigantic fossil foot found under the Sainte Chapelle, 
Paris, and on a somewhat mythical foot said to have been presented to 
Charlemagne. 
Bingham, C. T. Notes on some Tenasserim Birds. Str. Feath. viii. 
pp. 190-197. 
Bishop, N. H. Four Months in a Sneak-Box. A boat voyage of 2600 
miles down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and along the Gulf of 
Mexico. Boston, U.S. A. : 1879. Edinburgh: 1880, 8vo, pp. .322. 
Amongst other remarks, there is a graphic account (pp. 108-112) of 
the real and supposed manners of nesting of Whooping and Sandhill 
Cranes, and (pp. 124-129) of Conurus enrolinensis, a parrakeet now 
almost, if not quite, banished from South Carolina. 
