456 Messrs. Salvin and Sclatcr's Index of the 



curve in the bill of this form is plainly visible in a bird only a 

 few days old. 



NlESSING, C. 



Ornitholoffisc/ies aus der Mark Brandenhery. J. fiir Orn. 

 1870, p. 145. 



NOULET, J. B. 



Nos deux Hirondelles et leur nids. Compt. Rend. Ixxi. p. 78 

 (1870). 



M. Noulet shows that M. Pouchet, in his observations on the 

 Martins' nests at Rouen, had confounded the nests of Swallows 

 and Martins, supposing them to be of one species. See also 

 notice of this paper in Ann. N. H. ser. 4, vol. v. p. 270. 



Orton, Prof. James. 



The Great AwL Am. Nat. iii. pp. 539-542. 



This short paper contains no fresh information concerning 

 this species, unless it be a short additional note on the occur- 

 rence of its remains in shell-heaps scattered along the coast from' 

 the British possessions to Massachusetts. An indifferent cut 

 accompanies the paper, copied from Audubon's plate 465. 



Owen, Prof. (See Haast, J.) 



Parker, W. K. 



On the Structure and Develojyment of the Skull of the Common 

 Fowl (Gallus domesticus). Phil. Trans, clix. pp. 755— 806, 

 plates Ixxxi.-lxxxvii. 1870. 



The second of a series of papers which commenced with one 

 on the skull of the Ostrich-tribe (Phil. Trans. 1866, p. 113). 



The observations, classed under ten heads, are made upon 

 subjects of ages ranging from the fourth day of incubation 

 to Fowls several years old. Excellent plates illustrate the 

 author's remarks throughout. It would be impossible to give 

 an abstract of this paper, where comparison ranges almost over 

 the whole of the Vertebrata, at least in the downward scale. 

 In bis concluding remarks Mr. Parker urges the importance of 

 the vai'ious isomorphisms displayed by the skull of this one 

 type in its stages of growth; and, in describing the impressions 

 made upon him by his studies, he adds : — " whilst at work I 

 seemed to myself to have been endeavouring to decipher a 



