106 Recently published Ornithological JVorks. [Ibis, 



M. Heurj Necker a Robert Poncy. Extr. from Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 Geneve, 1916, pp. 1-40. 



Rapport de la Station ornithologique du Port de Geneve et de ses 

 environs 1915-1916. Par R. Poncy. Bull. Soc. Zool. Geneve, 1916, 

 pp. 167-189.] 



In the first of these papers is printed, for the first time, 

 the ornithological notes made between 1803 and 1838 by 

 M. Necker de Saussure (a grandson of H. H. de Saussure, 

 the well-known geologist), who was himself a man of general 

 culture, as well as an ornithologist of considerable note, and 

 author of a memoir on the birds of Geneva, published in 

 1823. The notes are arranged in chronological order for 

 each month, and are chiefly of historical interest and deal 

 with observations made in the neighbourhood of Geneva. 



M. Poncy's own notes, arranged in a similar manner, 

 deal with his daily observations chiefly on the water-birds 

 of the Lake of Geneva between July 1915 and June 1916. 



Shufeldt's recent papers. 



[Osteology of Palcp.ornis, with other Notes on the Genus. By 

 R. W. Shufeldt. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa, v. 1916, pp. 576-591, 

 pis. xxxix-xli.] 



[A. Fossil Feather from Taubate. Id. Auk, xxxiii. 1916, pp. 206-207.] 

 [The Signiticance of the Osteological Characters of the Chionides. 

 Id. ibid. pp. 352-353.] 



In the first of these papers Dr. Shufeldt gives us an 

 account of the osteology of Palaornis docilis. The observa- 

 tions he has made lead him to believe that the position 

 assigned by Sharpe to the Parrots of this and other closely- 

 allied genera as forming a distinct subfamily of the family 

 Psittacidse is probably more correct than that suggested by 

 Garrod. A coloured plate of the example on which the 

 work was done, together with two plates of the osteology, 

 illustrate the text. 



The second note deals with a fossil feather from some 

 deposits of unknown age in southern Brazil, but there is 

 not sufficient evidence of affinity or character to do more 

 than mention the fact of the existence of birds occurring in 

 this particular formation. 



The third title cited is in the form of a letter to the 



