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(Australia.) 



Bnller (W. L.). Manual of the Birds of New Zealand, with ■woodcuts and 37 pi. "Well- 

 ington, N. Z., 1882. (8vo., 119 pp., M 14.) 



Fossil birds. 



Lemoine (V. ). Eecherches sur les Oiseaux fossiles des terrains tertiaires infSrieurs des 

 environs de Reims. 2. Partie. Reims, impr. Matol-Braine, 1882. (8vo., p. 71-170, 

 pi. 6-11.) 



• Special groups. 



(Tuiinares.) 



ForbesCW. A.). Reportonthe Anatomy of the Petrels (Tubinares) collected during the 

 voyage of H. M. S. Challenger. With 7 pi. 



( GalUnce. ) 



Oustalet (E.). Description du i?einfcardi«« occWa/ws, Gallinac^ voisin des Argus. Ann. 

 Scienc. nat. (6), Zool., t. 13, Art. No. 12. (8 pp.) 



(^Psittad.) 



Reichenow (Ant.). Conspectus Psittacorum. Systematische Uebersicht aller bekann- 

 ten Papageienarten. (Schliiss). Joum. f. Ornitholog., 29. Jahrg., p. 337-398. 



{Pici.) 



Elliot (D. G.). A Monograph of the Bucerotidse, or family of the Hombills. Part 10 



[concluding the work]. London, 1882. (fol.). 

 iSclater (P. L. ). A Monograph of the Jacamars and Puff-Birds, or Families Galbulidse 



and Bucconidfe. London, Dulau & Co , 1882. (4to. Completed.) 

 Stearns (Robert E. S.). The Acorn-storing habit of the California Woodpecker 



\_Melanerpe8formiciroru8'\. Amer. Naturalist, v. 16, p. 353-.357. 



{Passeres.) 



Forbes (W. A.). Contributions to the Anatomy of Passerine Birds. Part 5. On the 

 Structure of the Genus Orthonyx. Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 1882, p. 544-546. 

 Ibid., Part 6. On Xenicus and Acanthisitta as types of a new family (Xenicidoe) 

 of Mesomyodian Passeres from New Zealand. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 

 561-071. 



Shufeklt (R. W.). Notes upon the Osteology of Cinclus mexicanus. Bull. Nuttall 

 Omithel. Club. V. 7, p. 213-221. 



Variations of the Toes in Birds. 



The variations from the normal structure of the foot in birds were 

 examined by the lamented Forbes shortly before his death, and are no- 

 ticed in an article published in the " Ibis" for July (1882). 



Most birds, as is well known, have four toes, of which generally three 

 are directed forwards and one backwards in the nou-zygodactylous 

 types. But one or other of the toes is liable to suppression, and the 

 one thus atrophied is by no means always the same; (1) generally it is 

 the hind toe or hallux, but (2) in certain kingiishers {Ceyx aleyone) 



