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{Australia.) 



Duller (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. ). Recherches sur les Oiseaux fossiles des terrains tertiaires inf^rieurs dea 

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

 pi. 6-11.) 



Special groups, 



(Tubinares.) 



Forbes (W. A.). Report on the Anatomy of the Petrels (Tubinares) collected during the 

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



(GallincB.) 



Oustalet (E.). Description du Beinhardius ocellatus, Gallinac6 voisin des Argus. Ann. 

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



(PsittaH.) 



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

 ten Papageienarten. (Schluss). Journ. f. Ornitholog., 29. Jahrg., p. 337-398. 



(Pici.) 



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



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

 Sclater (P. L. ). A Monograph of the Jacamars and Putt-Birds, or Families Galbulidae 



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

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



IMelnnerpesformicivortts^. 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. 

 561-571. 



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

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



Variations of tJie Toes in Birds. 



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

 examined by the lamented Forbes shortly before his deatli, 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 non-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 kingfishers {Ceyx alci/one) 



