Recently published Ornithological Works. 615 



Rollulus roulroul and Grus antigone, with letterpress by 

 Mr. Astley and Mr. Sraitli. 



Mr. Gordon Dalgleisli describes the methods by which 

 birds utilized for purposes of fashion are captured in India, 

 Dr. Butler writes of " the mind of a bird/' Mr. Stead of the 

 trapping of the Kea (Nestor notabilis) and the discovery 

 of the nest^ and Mr. Seth-Smith of his visit to Australia 

 on behalf of the Zoological Society of London, while Miss 

 Alderson gives further notes on the denizens of her aviaries 

 in general. Minor articles by different authors are also to 

 be found. 



83. Balducci on the Sterna of Italian Birds. 



[Morfologia dello Sterno degli Uccelli con ricerche originali. Dr. En- 

 rico Balducci. Prato, 1908.] 



The sternum is certainly one of the most characteristic 

 and easily studied parts of the bird's osseous structure, 

 although it should not be taken alone^ and a good mono- 

 graph on the sternum of birds would be a valuable aid to 

 their classification. But our author confines himself, unfor- 

 tunately, to Italian birds and his conclusions are therefore 

 of little use to the systematist. After 32 pages of text we 

 find some 50 pages of exact measurements of a large number 

 of sterna which have been examined. This is followed by 

 28 plates, which contain 248 outline figures, front and side 

 views, of the sterna of birds. These figures would have been 

 much more useful if names as well as numbers had been 

 attached to them. The author follows the arrangement and 

 numbering of Giglioli's * Avifauna Italica.' 



84. Bangs and Peck on Birds from British Honduras. 



[On some rare and new Birds from British Honduras. By Outram 

 Bangs and Morton E. Peck. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. xxi. 

 p. 43 (1908).] 



Four birds are described as new in this paper — Limnopar- 

 dalus maculatus insolitus, Antrustomus badius, Troglodytes 

 irrequies, and Coturniculus savannarum cracens. Notes are 

 given upon others as '^rare or worthy of special notice/' 



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