298 REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIV. 



LIMICO.L.E. The Glareolinae have been treated of by Gray in the ' Genera 

 of Birds,' n. 1 . He places it as a third sub-family to his Cfiaradridee, with 

 the single genus Glareola, in which he enumerates seven species. The last 

 of these was first instituted by Fraser, in the ' Ann. Nat. Hist.' xiii, p. 74, 

 as Glareola cinerea ; it is found in West Africa. 



To the Cursorinae, that constitute his second sub-family of the Charadridae, 

 Gray (ibid. u. 3) adds the genera Pluvianus with one, Cursorius with seven, 

 and Oreophilus with one, species. In the .^Edicueminae he enumerates the 

 genus JEdiotemus with six and Esacus with two, species. 



Glottis glottoides has been figured by Gould in the ' Birds of Australia,' 

 u. 16. 



ODONTOGLOSSVE. Dcsinurs (Rev. Zool. p. 241) would have the Flamingo, 

 on account of the similarity of its egg to that of the Pelicans, placed with 

 the Natatorial birds. 



NATATORES. 



LONGIPENNES. Fr. Boie iii the ' Isis/ S. 178, propounds 

 a systematic division of his family Sternidce, with an enume- 

 ration of the species. 



His genera are Hydrocecropis, Thalasseus, Stermila, HydrocJieliclon, Gyyis, 

 Pclccanopus, Sj/locln'Iiilmi, Gelochelidon, Anous, Planetis, Haliplana, Ntenia, 

 Gavia, Xema, Larus and Catarrhacta. New species : Lurus 

 from Russian America, by Goidd, in ' Aim. Nat. Hist.' 

 xiii, p. 476. lu ibid, xiv, p. 450, Gilbert communicates some notices upon 

 the " modus iucubaudi" of Anous stolidus. In the ' Birds of Australia,' 11. 

 14, Sternula Nereis has been figured. 



TUBINAHES. Gray, iu the ' Genera of Birds,' n. 2, has given the survey 

 of his first sub-family of ProceUaridse, the Procellarinse, consisting namely of 

 Pelecanoides with three, Puffinus with thirteen, Thalassidroma with eleven, 

 Proccllaria with twenty-five, and Prion -with two, species. 



Schembri's Thalassidroma melitensis has been shown by Strickland to be 

 identical with Th. pclaaica. (Ann. Nat. Hist, xiv, p. 348.) 



Important contributions to our knowledge of the geographical distribution 

 of this family of Birds, along with the characteristics of twelve new species 

 have been furnished by Goidd, in the ' Ann. Nat. Hist.' xiii, p. 360. The 

 new species are called Diomedia gibbosa (identical with D. niyripes, Audub.) 

 and oUvaceo^rhyncha ; Proccllaria atlantica, solatidri, mollis, leucoptera and 

 jlavirostris ; Puffmus brevicaudtts, carneipes and splienurus ; Thalassidroma 



