THE GENERAIi SUBJECT. 
Aves. 15 
Minot, H. D. The Land Birds and Game Birds of New England, with 
descriptions of the Birds, their Nests and Eggs, their Habits, and 
Notes. Salem and Boston : 1877, 8vo, pp. 45G. 
. Letter, with additions to above. A.m. Nat. xi. p. 175. 
Mivart, St. G. On the Axial Skeleton of the Struthionidm. Tr. Z. S. 
X. pp. 1-52 (with woodcuts). 
This is the first of a series of papers instituting comparisons between the 
axial skeletons of Struthio camelm^ and those of Rhea^ Dromceus, Casu- 
arius, Apteryx^ and Dinornis. 
Mulsant, ;6., & Verreaux, 6. Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux- 
Mouches ou Colibris, iii. Liv. 3 & 4, iv. Liv. 1 & 2. [See Zool. Rec. 
xiii. Aves, p. 19.] 
Eight new genera are created in these four parts [ Trochilidoi]. 
Mollendorpf, O. F. von. The Vertebrata of the Province of Chihli, 
with notes on Chinese Zoological Nomenclature. J. N. China Soc. 
(n.s.) xi. pp. 41-111. (Birds, pp. 76-102.) 
A most interesting account of the Chinese names for, and traditions 
respecting, the birds of the country. 
Nelson, E. W. Birds of North-Eastern Illinois. Bull. Essex Inst. viii. 
pp. 90-155. 
Valuable and succinct field-notes from the previously unworked region 
bordering on Lake Michigan. 
. Notes upon Birds observed in Southerh Illinois between July 
17th and Sept. 4th, 1875. Tom. cit. ix. pp. 32-65. 
Newton, Alfred. On the Nomenclature of the groups of Ratitce. 
Ann. N. H. (4) xx. p. 499. 
The author suggests the following names for the component parts of 
the Sub-class Ratitcs, based upon the characters assigned by Huxley : — 
Order I. Strutiiiones Fam. Struthionidco. 
„ II. RifEA3 Fam. Rhcidcc, 
„ III. M-EGistANES Fam. i. Drommidm ; Fam. ii. Casiiariidoi. 
„ IV. Immanes Fam. i. Dinornithidm \ Patapterygidve. 
„ V. Aptbryges Fam. Apterygidce. 
„ VI. iEPYORNiTHES Fam. Mpyornithidm. 
. A History of British Birds, by the late William Yarrell. 4th 
Edition. Part xi. London : 1877, 8vo. 
This number concludes the Fringillidoi^ and describes the Icteridm and 
Sturnidce. 
. The “ Encyclopaedia Britannica,” 9th Edition, contains the follow- 
ing articles by this author [cf. Zool. Rec. 1875, p. 43] : Vol. iv. 
(1876), Bunting^ Bustard ; Vol. v. (1876), Capereally ; Vol. vi. (1877), 
Coot^ Cormorant., Crane^ Crosshilly Crow, CucJcow, Curlew ; Vol. vii.. 
Dodo, Dove, Duck, Eagle, Eider. 
