4 Aues. 
AV£S. 
Bl\nford, W. T. Notes on the [A. O. Hume’s, infra] List of the Birds 
of India. Str. Feath. viii. pp. 176-184. 
. [Ill President’s Address, P. A. S. B. 1879, pp. 60-53, are some 
remarks on the progress of Ornithology in India during 1878.] 
Bocage, J. V. Barboza du. Subsidios para a Fauna das possessoes 
portuguesas d’ Africa occidental. J. Sc. Lisb. vii. [Aves] pp. 86 & 87, 
92-95. 
From the Island of S. Thom4 8 species are recorded, and from the 
Sertao de Angola 27 species, one of the latter, Fiscus capelli [Laniidce], 
being described as new, whilst attention is drawn to the rediscovery of 
that rare species, Francolinus schlegeli \_Perdicidoi\ 
. Aves das possessoes portuguesas d’Africa occidental, xviii. lista. 
Tom. cit. pp. 100-102. 
On a collection of 17 species nqade by Senhcvr Anchieta at Novo 
Redondo. 
Bockmann, F. Ornithologische Beitrage zur Fauna der Niederelbe. 
Verb. Ver. Hamb. iii. pp. 252-270. Nachtrag ; op. cit. iv. p. 249. 
A list of the birds observed on the Lower Elbe. 
Bogdanow, Modest. T^udui obshchestva estestvoispuitatelei pri Ira- 
peratorskom kazanskoiR Universitetye, Tom, viii, Vuip. 4, Ptitsai 
Kavkaza-Kazan ; 1879. 
The above is the rendering into Roman characters of a Russian title, 
signifying, “ Transactions of the Natural History Society in connection 
with the Imperial Kazan University. The Birds of the Caucasus.” The 
species noticed are 323, amongst which are 6 new species and subspecies 
[^Falconidce^ Paridm (3), Fringillidce, Picidai], and 3 new genera are 
erected \_Fringillid(B (2), Alaudidoi]. 
Buiim, R. Ornithologische Skizzen aus Mecklenburg und Nord-Friesland. 
Orn. Centralbl. 1879, pp. 1-4, 25-29, 58-60, 73-76, 81-84. 
Boucard, a. See Chiromachccris coronata, sp. n. [^Piprida], L.ampornis 
violicauda^ var. ? {^Trochilidai]^ Myrmoiherula nigro-riifa^ sp. n. 
[Form icariidoi] . 
Boulard, Raoul. Sur les sacs aeriens du Marabout. Bull. Sop. Philom. 
(7) iii. pp. 129 & 130. 
Boultychepp, N. P. [A paper on the Fauna and Flora of the Irbit 
District in Bulletin de la Societe Ouralienne, Ekaterinburg, iv,] 
[Not seen by Recorder ; see Nature, xx. p. 484.] 
Brehm, a. E. Thierleben, II. Abth. Vogel, i. -iii. Leipzig: 1879. 
A popular illustrated work. 
. [Sketch of the Visit of the Crown Prince of Austria to Spain and 
Portugal, with Notices of some of the more interesting Birds 
observed.] J. f. O. 1879, pp. 441-443. 
. [See also Oesterreich, Rudolph von.] 
