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been established, and are certainly made subordinate to the 

 number of caudal vertebrae, to the presence or absence of a 

 keel to the sternum, and other characters. Then, again, the 

 Cassowaries are certainly not typical of the Dromseognathse, 

 which contains the Tinamous alone, the name being derived 

 from the Struthious structure of the palate of these singular 

 birds. The rest of the paper contains criticisms upon, and 

 additions to, Prof. Huxley's memoir. 



SUNDEVALL, CaRL J. 



1. Foglarne pa on St. Barthelemy, efterde af Dr. A. von Goes 

 hemsdnda samlingarna bestdmde. Ofvers. af K.Vetensk. Ak. 

 Forhandl., Stockholm, 1869, pp. 579-591. 



A list of forty-seven species of birds is given as inhabiting the 

 [sland of St. Bartholomew and its shores. Some suggestive 

 notes are added regarding some closely allied insular forms. A 

 useful contribution to West-Indian ornithology. 



2. Foglarne pa on Porto Rico, efter Hr. Hjalmarsons insam- 

 lingar franistdllda. Ibid. pp. 593-603. 



Ninety species are here given as inhabitants of the Island of 

 Porto Rico, which now, through the labours of Bryant, Taylor, 

 and others, must be pretty thoroughly explored. 



3. Ofversigt af fogelsldgtet Dendroeca. Ibid. pp. 605-618. 

 The species of Dendrwca, twenty-four in number, here treated 



of, are divided into four divisions, based partly on the style of 

 coloration of the component species, partly on the formation of 

 the bill. The treatment of Dendraca petechia, and the local 

 forms into which it is here subdivided, is the most noticeable 

 feature in this paper. The Motacilla petechia of Linnaeus, 

 based upon Edwards's t. 256 (ex patria ignotJi) is looked upon 

 as a kind of type round which various local races arrange them- 

 selves. The Antillean races are called (a) bartholemica, (b) 

 cruciana, (c) barbadensis, (d) cubana, (e) jamaicensis, after the 

 islands to which they respectively belong. D. aureola, from the 

 Galapagos Islands, is called (f) galapagerms ; and the species 

 usually called by recent writers D. vieilloti receives the names 

 (g) peruviana, (h) cequatorialis, (i) panamensis. Prof. Sundevall, 

 as usual, makes his meaning clear in the method he here adopts ; 



