THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Aves 9 
[Bullish, W. L.] A Classified List of Mr. S. W. Silver’s Collection of 
Now Zealand Birds (at the Manor House, Letcomb Regis), with short 
descriptive Notes. London : 1888, 8vo, 96 pp. 
The Birds are contained in twelve cases, eight of which nrere exhibited 
at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition (1886). Figures are repeated of 
the restoration, skeleton, &c., of the Moa, accompanied by the nests and 
eggs of various species. 
Burckiiardt, R. Doppelanlage des Primitivstreifens bei einem Hiih- 
nerei. Arch. Anat. Phys. 1888 [Anat.] pp. 431 & 432, cut. 
Bureau, L, Excursions Ornithologiques en Algerie. C.R. Ass. Fr. Sci. 
1888, p. 196. 
Arrivals of Birds of passage on their way to the north. 
— — . [See also Syrrhciptes ( Pteroclidce ).] 
Burmeister, C. V. Relacion de un Yiaje a la Gobernacion del Chubut, 
An. Mus. B. Aires, iii, pp. 175-252, map. 
A list of Birds is given, pp. 241-250. 
Butler, A. W. [See A mmodretmus sandwichensis bnmnescais, n. subsp, 
(Fringillidce).\ 
Buttikofer, J. Zoological Researches in Liberia. A List of Birds, 
collected by the Author and Mr. F. X. Stampfli during their last 
sojourn in Liberia. Notes Leyd. Mus. x [1888], pp. 59-106, pi. v 
(map). [Cf. Zool. Rec. xxii, Aves, p. 6, and xxiii, Aves, p. 8.] 
The Birds which form tho subject of this article were collected at 
Schieffelinsville, on the Junk; at Hilltown, on the Du Queah ; and on 
the Farmington — the two latter being tributaries of the former — as well 
as along the lower coast of Liberia with its river-mouths. 25 species 
are added to the explorers’ former lists, and Stampfli is still working on 
the Farmington. [See Accipiter buttikoferi , n. sp. ( Falconidae ), Cinnyris 
sp. p ( Nectciriniida j), Geocichlci ( Turdidce ), Nigrita ( Ploceidce ), Megalcema 
( Capitoniclce ), Agelastes ( Phasianidce ), Heliornis ( Heliornilhidce ).] 
. On Birds from the Congo and South-Western Africa. T. c. pp. 
209-244, pi. ix. 
This paper contains an account of a collection made by P. J. van der 
Kellen, in 1884-87, on the Lower Congo, the Upper Cunene, the Okovango 
and Umbella rivers. It is little but a list of 132 species. [See Neocichla 
kelleni, n. sp., Stiplirornis ( Timeliidcc ), Plocepciszer rufoscapulatus , n. sp. 
(Plocehht).'] 
Cabanis, J. [See Paradhea gulielmi , P. angustce-victoricc ( Paradiseidcc ), 
Qiierquedtila ciniarctica ( Anatidcc) ) pi., n. spp.).] 
Campbell, A. J. Oology of Australian Birds. Viet. Nat. iv [1888], 
pp. 182-188. [Supplement, pt. iv.] \_Cf. Zool. Rec. xxiv, Aven ) 
P- 7.] 
The eggs described are those of Astur novce-hollandice , Alcyone diemen - 
ensis, Cracticus leucopterus, Polytelis melanura, Platycercus zonarius , P. 
adelahlensis, Pscphotus multicolor , Chalcophaps chrysochlora , Erythrau - 
