Recently published Ornithological Works. 21 3 



As regards the typical Oscines, they are all so nearly allied 

 that the particular order selected is perhaps hardly material. 

 But it is obvious that the families with nine primaries only 

 and those with the first (or outermost) nearly aborted present 

 an extreme modification of the avian type. They should 

 therefore be either first or last^ and not in the middle of the 

 ten-priraaried Oscines, as is effected by commencing with the 

 Crows and ending with the Starlings. 



In conclusion^ we are glad to see that Cinclus is no longer 

 to be left as a genus of Troglodytinse, and that the Myiades- 

 tidae^ Pycnonotidse, and Mimidse are divorced from their 

 unnatural association with the Timeliidse. But we regret to 

 see that^ although we believe Mr. Sharpe has now been con- 

 vinced not to put his trust in " chin-angles/^ the " Priono- 

 pidse " still remain as a family, instead of being dispersed 

 into the various elements of which this mongrel group was 

 originally composed. 



39. Shufeldt on the Osteology o/Podasocys montanus. 



[Observations upon the Osteology of Podasocys montamis. By R. W. 

 Shufeldt, M.D. Journ. Anat. & Phys. vol. xviii. p. 80.] 



Dr. Shufeldt gives us here one of his excellent essays upon 

 avian osteology. Podasocys montanus is a rare mountain 

 Plover, of which skeletons were obtained from specimens 

 collected on the arid plains of Wyoming in 1879. Except 

 in the form of the lacrymal, and in the relative size of the 

 ossified prefrontal processes of the ethmoid, the osseous 

 structure of this Plover differs in no essential particular from 

 that of Charadrius. 



40. Taczanowski' s Second List of Birds from Kamtschatka. 



[Liste supplementaire des Oiseaux recueillis par le Dr. Dybowski au 

 Kamtschatka et aux iles Comandores. Par L. Taczanowski. Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, 1883, p. 329.] 



This is a continuation of the former paper (c/l Ibis, 1883^ 

 p. 575), and enumerates Q7 species, making the total number 

 of Kamtschatkan species obtained by Dybowski 134, and 



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