No. 4.] COUES'S ORNITH. BIBLIOGRAPHY CHIONIDID.E. 841 



Chionididse. 



1836. Blainville, M. H. D. de. Sur la place que doit occuper dans le systfeme orni- 

 tliologiqiie le genre Chiouis on Bec-en-fourrean. <^ Comptea Bend, de I'Acad. 

 ;S'ei.,iii, 1836, pp. 155-164. 



Paa vu moi-m6mo. 

 1836. Blainville, M. H. D. de. M<>moire sur la place que doit occuper daiis le sys- 

 tfeme ornithologique le genre Cliionis on Bec-en-fonrreau. <ClAnn. des Sci. Nat., 

 2e s6r., vi, 1836, pp. 97-106. 



This I have seen, and in fact have closely studied ; but the title is taken at sccoud-haud, and 

 may not he literally correct. 



Various i)reviou8 writers upon the subject had either passed over the systematic j^osition 

 of Ohionis as not determined, or, in attempting its determination, had in turn considered the 

 bird as grallatorial, natatorial, and gallinaceous, and had placed it in one or another of the 

 recognized families, or had made of it a distinct family. The present author, writing at a 

 time when only three specimens of Ohionis alba were known to him to have existed, describes 

 briefly the external parts of this species, and in more detail the osteology, the material for the 

 study of the latter being an incomplete skeleton obtained through M. Baillon from M. P. E. 

 Botta, who also contributed some details of the visceral anatomy. Relying chiefly upon the 

 characters of the sternum in classification, M. De Blainville made the biid out to be an 

 6chassier, closely related to Hcematopus. The reasons for his conclusions are stated cate- 

 gorically in thirteen propositions on p. 106. The position here taken is defended with learn- 

 ing and ingenuity, and has been tuitil recently very generally accepted without question. — Cf. 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 3, 1876, pp. 86-88. 

 1841. Hartlaub, G. Nouvelle espfecede Bee en fourreau (Cliionis [minor]). <^ Bevue 

 Zoolofjiqne, iv, 1841, pp. 5, 6; v, 1842, pi. 2, figg. 2, 2a, 21). 



Cette espfeceest devenue plus tard le type du genre nouveau Chionarchus de MM. Kidder 

 et Coues, Bull. TT. -S'. Nat. Mus., n". 3, 1870, p. 116, q. v. Elle a 6te figures par M. G. R. Gray, 

 Oen. Birds. 

 1858. Eyton, T. C. Note on the Skeleton of the Slieatli-l)ill (Cbiouis alba). < P. Z. 

 S., xxvi, 1858, pp. 99, 100. 



Inclines to place it with Glareola. 

 1858. Eyton, T. C. Note on the Skeleton of the Sheath-bill (Chionis alba). <lAnn. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist, 3d ser., ii, 1858, p. 67. 



From P. Z. S., Feb. 23, 1858, pp. 99, 100. 

 ,1869. Cunningham, E. O. On Chionis alba. <^Journ. Anal, and Plitjsiol., 'Nov., I860, 

 pp. 87-89, pi. vii. 



A brief description, illustrated by figures, of the principal digestive organs, and larynx. 



1870. Cunningham, R. 0. On Chiaris [sic] alba. <; i?ej). Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. for 



1869, 1870, (il/(sc. Comw.),p. 111. 



Anatomical notes on Ohionis alba. 

 1867. SCLATER, P. L. [Exhibition of a skin of Chionis minor.] <^P. Z. S., xsxv, 

 1867, p. 891. 



From the Crozet Islands, being that mentioned by E. L. Layard in Ibis, 1867, p. 458. 



1871. Newton, A. [Egg of Chionis minor figured. ] <^P.Z.S., Jan. 17, 1871, p. 57, pi. 



iv, f. 7. 



Not properly citable as a separate article: the notice occurs in a paper entitled, "On some 

 New or Rare Birds' Eggs ", running pp. 55-58, pi. iv, figg. 1-8 of the periodical in mention. 



1876. Kidder, J. H. An interesting Bird [Chionis minor]. <^PopuJar Science Monthly, 

 viii, No. 48, Apr., 1876, pp. 657-665, figs. 1-3. 

 Popular account of the history, characters, and habits of this species. 

 1876. [Kidder, J. H. ] The Natural History of Kerguelen Island. < Am. Nat. , x, No. 

 8, 1876, pp. 481-484. 

 Editorial, prepared from Dr. Kidder's naner. Chionis minor the only bird treated. 



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