THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Aves 1 7 
Layard, E. L., & L. C. Letters recording occurrence in New Caledonia 
of Collocalia leucopygia, Sterna nereis^ Falco melanogenys, Lam- 
protreron holsericea, CyanorrJiampTius saisseti^ and Clytorrhynchus 
pachycephaloides. Ibis, 1879, pp, 107-111. 
Layard, E. L., & Tristram, H. B. See Turdus mareensis, sp. n. 
{^Turdidce]. 
Legge, W. V. On two Races or Sub-species of Indian Birds inhabiting 
Ceylon. Ann. N. H. (5) iii. p. 168 {^Acridotheres melanosternus 
{Siurnidce'), Pyctorrhis nasalis {Timeliidmy\^ subspp. nn. 
. A History of the Birds of Ceylon. Part ii. Passeres^ Columbce. 
London : September, 1879, 4to. 
The second instalment of this carefully executed work \cf. Zool. Rec. 
XV, Avea, p. 16] fully maintains the reputation of its predecessor. Four 
plates are given belonging to species in Part i. [^Accipitres^ Picidce, Cucu- 
lidce'] : whilst for plates of those peculiar to Ceylon which are included in 
the present part, see Corvidce^ Dicruridce, Muscicapidce, Turdidce, Pycno- 
notidoe, Timeliidce, of which last family a new species of Drymceca is 
described. 
Leslie, A. The Arctic Voyages of Adolf Erik Nordenskiold, 1858-1879. 
London : 1879, 8vo. 
In this compiled abstract there are several notices of the birds observed, 
although nothing new is stated ; and at p. 432 is a list of all the papers 
on ornithology relating to the above voyages. 
Linden, E. Papageien-Kleider, nach den Leben beschriebeu. Orn. 
Centralbl, 1879, pp. 84-86, 127-129. 
Descriptions from living specimens of many species of Parrots. 
Longchamps, M. E. De Selys. La Classification des Oiseaux depuis 
Linne. Bull. Ac. Belg. xlviii. pp. 729-813. 
Loomis, Leverett M. A Partial List of the Birds of Chester County, 
South Carolina. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv. pp. 209-218. 
One hundred and forty species are enumerated. 
Low, George. A Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Shetland, 
containing Hints relative to their Ancient, Modern, and Natural 
History collected in 1774. With an Introduction by Joseph Ander- 
son. Kirkwall: 1879, 8vo, pp. 223. 
The remarks on the birds are very interesting, although their essence 
has long since been anticipated by Pennant, and in the author’s “ Fauna 
Orcadensis.” 
Lubbock, R. Observations on the Fauna of Norfolk, and more particu- 
larly on the district of the Broads. New Edition by Thomas 
Southwell. With a Memoir by Henry Stevenson, and Notes on 
Hawking in Norfolk by Alfred Newton. Norwich and London : 
1879, 8vo, pp. 239. 
Prof. Newton’s notes contain some interesting extracts from thePaston 
letters (1472), and from the Diary of Von Wedenheym in the reign of 
