THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
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Raeburn, H. The Summer Birds o£ Shetland, with Notes on their 
Distribution, Nesting, and Numbers. P. Phys. Soc. Edinb. 1887-88, 
pp. 542-562. 
An interesting paper, though several districts appear to have been 
uuvisited, in consequence of which extraneous information has often been 
relied upon. 
Ram age, Gr. Notes on a Visit to Fernando Noronha. T. c. pp. 426-438. 
A few notes on the Birds are given, but no scientific names. 
°Ramo& y Cajal, S. Estructura de los centros ner/iosos de las Aves, 
Rev. trimestral de histol. normal y patolog. Ano I, No. 1, 1888, pp. 
1 et seqq. [Review in Z. wiss. Mikr. v, pp. 373 & 374.] 
Ramsay, E. P. Tabular List of all the Australian Birds at present 
known to the Author, showing the Distribution of the species over 
tlio Continent of Australia and adjacent Islands. Sydney : 1888, 
8vo, 38 pp., map. 
This work is tho forerunner of a systematic Index to the Australian 
avifauna. The author marks with an asterisk all species contained in 
the Australian Museum, and adds a list of others from Lord Howe and 
Norfolk Islands. The present being a new edition, and very many specific 
names being altered and corrected, it should be consulted by all who are 
interested in the Birds of the region. Considerable changes having also 
taken place in the boundaries of the Colonies, the new map is of equal 
importance. [See Philemon occidentalis ( Meliphagidce ), Pachyccphalci 
occidentals (Laniidce), Ninox alharia ( Striges ), (Edicnemus longipes ( (Elic - 
nemidee), n. spp., Platycercus pennanti nigrescens ( Psittaci ), n. subsp.] 
. List of Birds collected at Derby, North-West Australia, by the 
late T. II. Boyer-Bower, Esq., with notes. P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W, ii 
[1887], pp. 165-173. 
152 species. 
— — . See also Philemon occidentalis ( Meliphagidce ), Gerygone thorpii , 
Piezorhynchus sericeus ( Muscicapidce ), n. spp., Onychoprion f Anous 
( Laridce ), Sula (Sulidce).'] 
Ratzel, F. [See Schweinfurtii, G.] 
°Regalia, E. Unghie ai diti i e ii della Mano in Uccelli italiani. P.-v. 
Soc. Tosc. 1888, p. 86. 
Reiciienau, W. v. Bemerkungeu fiber das Vorkommen der Vogel von 
Mainz und Umgegend. Ornis, 1888, pp. 647-666. 
199 species. 
Reiciienow, A. Die Begrenzung Zoogeographischer Regioneu vom 
ornithologischen Standpunkt. Zool. Jahrb. iii, pp. 671-704, pi. xxvi. 
\Cf. Zool. Rec. xxiii, Aves, p. 31.] 
A full and clear discussion of the regions and of the Birds peculiar to 
each or common to several, with tables of distribution. The author 
recognizes as zones the [Palse- and Ne-] Arctic, the Western [N. and S. 
America, except Arctic part], the Eastern [Africa, except Madagascar, 
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