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45. Lucas on the Affinities of the Coerebidae. 



[Notes on the Anatomy and Affinities of the Coerebidce and other 

 American Birds. By Frederic A. Lucas. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvii. 

 p. 299.] 



Mr. Lucas has made a cai'eful examination of various 

 points in the structure of some of the Coerebidse and allied 

 forms of Osciniue Passeres^ but has not arrived at very satis- 

 factory results. The study of a considerable nuaiber of 

 specimens has lessened his hopes that anatomical and osteo- 

 logical characters may be relied upon to show relationship 

 among the Passeres ; we have, however, some positive state- 

 ments. In the characters of their palate the Coerebidse 

 dififer from the Mniotiltidee and resemble in some points the 

 Drepanididse and some of the Tanagridae. In their tongue the 

 Coerebidse differ entirely from the Tanagridse, and find their 

 nearest analogue in the Australian Ac author hynchi. Certhodea, 

 of the Galapagos, belongs to the Mniotiltidse. Myiadectes is 

 allied to the Thrushes rather than to Ampelis, and Phceornis is 

 still more certainly a member of the Turdine group, whereas 

 Phainopepla is undoubtedly closely affine to Ampelis. 



46. Madardsz on the Nesting of the Nutcracker in Hungary. 



[Die Nester des Nusshiihers {Nucifrar/a caryocatactes). ' Aquila,' 1894, 

 p. 48.] 



Dr. INIadarasz gives an account of the nesting of the Nut- 

 cracker in Hungary in 1894, Five nests were obtained, of 

 which three have gone to the National Museum at Buda- 

 Pesth. In the case of one of these, procured by our friend 

 Mr. C. G.Danford on the Guru Galles, both the parent birds 

 were likewise obtained. A nest which contained young birds 

 was half-domed over, like that of a Magpie. Dr. Madarasz 

 thinks that this addition to the nest is made after the young 

 birds are hatched. 



47. Martorelli on Italian Birds of Prey. 



[Monografia Illustrata degli Uceelli di Rapina in Italia. Del Dott. 

 Giacinto Martorelli. Mem. Soc. Italiana Sc. Nat. Milano, v. pp. 215, 

 1895.] 



In this handsome treatise Dr. ]\Iartorelli enumerates all 



