512 Recent III piiblisltcd ()ni'ilhulo(/'ical fVurks. 



usJia, Spatula clypeata, and Faliyula cristuta. Two speci- 

 mens of the rare Snipe-billed Godwit {Macrorhamphus 

 taczanoivskii), killed in Borneo, arc in tlie collection. The 

 typical specimens of two species of Phileiitoma (P. maxivelli 

 and P. saravacensis), described by Mr. E. Bartlett, the 

 former curator, have been examined and referred, the first 

 to P. piirrhopterum and the second to P. velntum. A list 

 of birds' eggs and birds' nests in the Museum is given, con- 

 taining those of 55 species. 



110. SJiuft'Jdt on the Ostcologij of the IVoodpeckcrs. 



[On the Osteolo£(y of tiie Woodpeckers. By R. W. Sliuft'ldt. Proc. 

 Amer. riiil. Soc. xxxix. pp. 578-622.] 



Dr. Shufeldt bere gives us his views upon the relationships 

 of the Woodpeckers, as formed from the examination of the 

 bones of all the genera found in North America, with due 

 reference to those absent from the fauna of that country. 

 The skull is considered separately from the remainder of the 

 skeleton, and several illustrations are added as an assistance 

 to the understanding of the text. The author agrees with 

 many writers in considering the Pici as nearly akin to the 

 Passeres, Picumnus forming a connecting link ; and he thinks 

 that the two groups have divei'ged from a common stock, 

 though the former have become highly specialized and much 

 modified. In short, his remarks arc hardly of a novel 

 nature, and it is for the wealth of anatomical detail that the 

 paper is chiefly remarkable. 



111. Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Striges. 



[On the Osteology of the Striges {Strigida and Bubonid<e.). By R. W. 

 Shufeldt. Proc. Atner. Phil. Soc. xxxix. pp. 66o-722.] 



This paper, with its full technical details, may be regarded 

 as an expansion of a former memoir by Dr. Shufeldt on 

 Speotyto, to which, however, so many additions have been 

 made that it now presents a very general view of the com- 

 parative osteology of the Owls of America, every genus and 

 ne;ii-ly every sjx'cics having Ijceu carefully cxaniiued. The 



