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Hume, O. A., & Marshall, C. H. T. The Game-Birds of India, China, and 
Ceylon. [Calcutta? :] 1878 [the Preface being dated July, 1879] 
Vol. i., royal 8vo, pp. 279. 
The letterpress is mainly by A. O. Hume, and describes the plumage, 
habits, &c., of those species of the Otididce^ Pteroclidm^ Phasianida, and 
Perdicidoc, found in the above region, 46 in number, with colour-printed 
illustrations of nearly all of them. 
HiiSKER, — . Beobachtungen iiber Sturmvogel und iiber die Ornis von 
Kerguelens-Land. Orn. Centralbl. 1879, pp. 160, 167, 177, & 181. 
Notes on the sea-birds, observed during the voyage of the Prussian 
ship ‘Gazelle ’ in 1874-76. 
Hutchins, J. P. About the Birds of Central New York. Forest and 
Stream, xii. p. 25. 
[“ Notes on birds observed about Oneida Lake ; ” see Bull. Nutt. Orn. 
Club, V. p. 44.] 
Hutton, F. W. Notes on a Collection from the Auckland Islands and 
Campbell Island. Tr. N. Z. Inst, xi. (Birds) p. 338. [Only 5 
species obtained.] 
. See also Fmdyptes filholi, sp. n. \_Spheniscidoi], Phalacrocorax\P ele- 
canidcd]^ Rallus macquariensis, sp. n. [^Rallidai]^ Harpa novce- 
zealandio’ \_Falconidcc], 
Ingersoll, Ernest. Nests and Eggs of American Birds. Salem, Mass. : 
1879, large 8vo. Pts. i,, ii,, hi., pp. 72, pis. i.-vi. 
Commencing with the Turdidm^ the author gives a popular account of 
the nidification of these and other Passerine birds. 
Irby, L. H. Notes on the Birds of the Straits of Gibraltar. Ibis, 1879, 
pp. 342-346. 
Remarks supplementary to the author’s previous contributions [cf. 
Zool. Rec. xii. p. 38], and chiefly based upon the observations of A. 
Stark. The principal novelties are the Asiatic Golden Plover, Charadrius 
fulvus \Charadriidm\ and Anser erythropus [^AnatidcE]. 
Jones, J. Mathew. List of the Birds of Nova Scotia: Land Birds 
Forest and Stream, xii. pp. 65, 105, 205, & 245. 
[“ An annotated list of 128 species ; ” see Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v. p. 44.] 
Jones, G. E., & Shulze, Eliza J. Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs 
of the Birds of Ohio. Circleville, Ohio : 4to, pts. 1 & 2, July and 
October, 1879. 
These instalments of a work in course of publication contain admir- 
able coloured plates, with descriptive text, of the nests and eggs of 
Icterus haltimore, Turdus mustelinus^ Coccyzus erytlirophtJialmus^ Cyano- 
spiza cyanea, Agelaeus phceniceus, Tyrannus caroUnensis. 
Klunzinger, C. B. Zur Wirbelthierfauna im und am Rothen-Meer. 
Z. Ges. Erdk. xiii. [1878] ii. Vogel, pp. 75-91. 
A catalogue, with remarks, of the species found on the Red Sea, prin- 
cipally in the neighbourhood of Koseir (about 26° N. lat.). 
