THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Aves 9 
Hume, A. O. On the flight of Birds. Str. Feath. x. pp. 248-254. 
. The British Museum Catalogue of Birds. Yol. vi. Str. Feath. x. 
1882, pp. 256 & 257. 
A review of the volume. [ Cf Zool. Rec. xvii. Aves, p. 27.] 
Huxley, T. H. On the respiratory organs of Apteryx. P. Z. S. 1882, 
pp. 560-569. [ Ratitce .] 
Ingersoll, E. Birds’-nesting : a Handbook of Instruction in Gathering 
and Preserving the Nests and Eggs of Birds for the purpose of 
Study. Salem, Mass. : 1882. 
Jeffries, J. A. On the claws and spurs on birds’ wings. P. Bost. Soc. 
xxi. pp. 301-306. 
Gives a very useful list of the Birds in which wing-claws and spurs 
occur, with the number of phalanges in the hand. 
. The Colors of Feathers. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii. pp. 129-135, 
pi. vii. 
. On the Sesamoid at the front of the Carpus in Birds. Tom. cit. 
pp. 13-15. 
Johnston, H. H. Report on the Natural History of Moss&medes and 
district, and of South-western Africa generally ; with reference to 
the proposed expedition of the Earl of Mayo. 1882, 8vo. 
This privately printed Report contains amongst other things a list 
(pp. 26-28) of the more remarkable birds to be met with in South- 
western Africa. 
Keliiam, H. R. Ornithological Notes made in the Straits Settlements 
and in the Western States of the Malay Peninsula. Ibis, 1882, 
pp. 1-18 & 185-204. 
Contains excellent field-notes on Malayan birds. [Zool. Rec. xvii. 
Aves, p. 14.] 
Knowlton, F. H. Remarks on some Western Vermont Birds. Bull. 
Nutt. Orn. Club, vii. pp. 63 & 64. 
Interesting remarks on Woodpeckers. 
Krukenberg, C. F. W. Die Farbstoffe der Federn. Yergl. Phys. Stud. 
Heidelberg, ii. Abth. 2. [See J. f. 0. p. 464 ; Ibis, 1882, p. 104.] 
. See also Meyer, A. B. 
Lawrence, G. N. Description of a new sub-species of Loxigilla from 
the Island of St. Christopher, West Indies. P. U. S. Nat. Mus. iv. 
pp. 204 & 205 (j Fringillidce) . 
, Descriptions of two new Species of Birds from Yucatan, of the 
families Columbidce and Formicaridce [q. v.]. Ann. N. York Ac. ii. 
pp. 287 & 288. 
[See also Cypselidce , Picidre , Fringillidce .] 
1882. [vol. xix.] b 4 
