TFJE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Aves 83 
Sharpe, R. B.j “Aves,’’ in Cassell’s Natural History, illustrated. 
London : 1879, 4to, i. pp. 235-380, ii. pts. 37-39, pp. 1-100. 
The above parts of this excellent popular work in course of publi- 
cation comprise the Accipitres, Picarice, and a portion of the Passeri- 
formes. 
. See also Heliodilus soumagnii [Strigidce']^ DromcBOcercus seebohmi, 
sp. n. [^Sylviidce^. 
Shellev, G. E. a Monograph of the Cinnyrido3, or Family of Sun- 
Birds. Pts. ix. & X. London: 1879, 4to. [Qf. Zool. Rec. xv. Aves, 
p. 30.] 
For species figured in these parts [see Nectariniidce']. The work will 
be concluded in 1880. 
. On a Collection of Birds from the Comoro Islands. P. Z. S. 
1879, pp. 673-679. 
The number of species obtained on the islands of Grand Comoro and 
Anjuan amount to 36, one of which, Zosterops kirhi \Diceidoe\ is described 
as new. 
. See also Chrysococcyx flavigularis \Cuculid(z\ Pogonorrhynchus 
affinis [^CapitonidcB]^ spp. nn. 
Smith, Cecil. The Birds of Guernsey and the neighbouring Islands. 
London : 1879, pp. 223, 8vo. 
In this carefully compiled list, 176 species are proved to have occurred, 
and graphic accounts are given of the habits and nidification of many of 
them. 
, J. A. Alca impennis \^Alcidoi~\. 
Snow, Frank H. Additions to the Catalogue of Kansas Birds. Tr. 
Kansas Ac. iv. p. 38. 
Southwell, T. Norfolk Decoys. Tr. Norw, Soc. ii. pp. 538-655. 
. See also Lubbock, R. 
Stejneger, Leonard. See Tylas strophiatus^ sp. n. \^PycnonotidcB'\, 
Lanius hairdi, sp. n. [^Laniidce']. 
Sterland, W. J., & Whittaker, J. Descriptive List of the Birds 
of Nottinghamshire. Mansfield : 1879, 8vo, pp. 71. 
A total of 238 species. 
Stevenson, H. Ornithological Notes [from Norfolk] for 1878. Tr. 
Norw. Soc. ii. pp. 594-601 ; Zool. 1879, pp. 153-162. 
. See also Lubbock, R. 
Strasser, Hans. Zur Mechanik des Flngs. Arch. f. Nat. xliv. i. [1878], 
pp. 319-350. 
Strecker, C. W. " Die im Obereichsfelde und bei Miihlhausen, besonders 
aber bei DiugelstMt und Heiligenstadt von mir beobachteten Vogel. 
Orn. Centralbl. 1879, pp. 5 & 6, 9 & 10, 51-53. 
