770 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889.' 



riiiLir Lutley Sclater. Catalogue | of the | rasseri formes, | or | Pershing Birds, | 

 in the | Collection | of the | British Museum. | | Oligomyodae, | or the Fam- 

 ilies | Tyrannidse, Pipridse, Cotingidae, | Phytotomidae, Philepittidse, Pittidse, | 



Xenicidae, aud Eurylseinidse. | By | Philip Lutley Sclater. | Loudou : | Printed by 

 order of the Trustees. | 18—. 



8vo., pp. xx. 494: list of plates, and 26 colored plates. 



The nuraberof species treated in this work is C'">o. as follows : TyrannicUe, 412 species. 78 genera ; 

 Oxyrhamphidoz, 3 species, 1 genus; Pipridce, 70 species. 19 genera; Cotingidce, 113 species, 

 29 genera: Phutotomidos, 4 species, 1 genus; PhUepittidce, '.' species, 1 genus ; PittiAce, 50 

 species, 4 genera; Xenicidce,3 species, 2 genera; Eurylosmidos, 11 species, 8 genera; total, 

 C6.« species, 133 genera. 

 The following -are described as new. Oehthornis (new genus, type Elainea littoral is Pels.) 

 p. 31; Cosnotriecus (new genus, type ifuscicapa ruficeps Lafr.), p.86; Empidochanes salvini, 

 p. 218 (Venezuela and British Guiana). 

 Philip Lutley Sclater and \Y. H. Hudson. Argentine Ornithology. | A | De- 

 scriptive Catalogue J of the | Birds of the Argentine Republic. ] By P.L. Sclater, 

 M. a., ni. D., F. R. 8., etc., | with notes on their habits. | By | W. II. Hudson, C. 



M. z. s., late of Buenos Ayres. | Wood-cut of Burraeister's Cariama. I | Vol- 



ume ii. | | London: | K. H. Porter, IS Princess street. Cavendish Square, 



W. | 186 



Bvo, pp. xxiv. 251, 10 hand-colored lithographic plates, representing the following species, 

 Plate xi. Ghostocercus burmeisteri ; plate xiii. plate xiv, Conurvs mo- 



linos; plate xv, B tymara ; plate xvi, Buieo swaintoni ; plate xvii, Ardetta 



involucris; plate xviii, Cygnus nigricollis ; plate xix. RaJhis maculatus : plate xx, Xo- 

 thura dari'ini. 

 This second and last volume includes the orders Macrochires, Pici. Coccyges, Psittaei, Striges, 

 Accipitres, Steganopodes, Herodiones, Anseres, Columba: Gallltur. Geranomorphee, l.iuiicolos, 

 Gavios, Pygopodes. Impetmes, Crypturi, and Struihiones. The introduction (pp. xvii-xxiv) 

 gives a general review of the subject of ge graphical distribution of birds within the »o- 

 tiopie.il legion, defines the several subrcgions (six in number), and goes somewhat into 

 detail in discussing the relationship of the Argentine bird-fauna, which, it is stated, 

 "comes within the limits of the Patagonian subregion." The appendices are: "I. List 

 of the Principal Authorities upon the Ornithology of the Argentine Republic referred to 

 in the present work" (page 221), and "II. List of some of the principal localities where 

 collections have been made, mentioned in this work' tp. 231). 

 GEORGE B. Sennett. A New form of Clapper Rail. 

 The Awfc, v, July, 1888, pp. 305, 306. 



Rallus longirostris scottii, Scott's Rail, p. 305 ; habitat, west coast of Florida. 

 GEORGE B. Sennett. An addition to the List of North American Birds. 

 The Aul; v, July, 1888, p. 319. 



BaUttS longirostris caribceus Ridgw. ; Galveston and Corpus Christi, Texas. 

 GEORGE B. SENNETT. The Clapper Pails of the United States and West Indies com- 

 pared with liallus longirostris of South America. 

 The t >d: vi. April, 1889, pp. 161-166. 



Revises the group, and recognizes the following species and subspecies: (1) Rail us crepitant 

 GnieL, Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United States: (2) Ralh/s longirostris caribeeus 

 Ridgw., West Indies and coast of Texas : (3) Rallus crepitans saturatus Hensh.. Kigolets, 

 near Lake Pont char train, Louisiana: (4) Rallus obsoletus Ridgw., Pacific coast of United 

 States; (5) Rallus scottii. Sennett. west coast of Florida, and (6) Rallus eorui liiaya. Bahamas. 



R. W. Shofeldt. The Osteology of Habia melanocephala, with Comparative Notes 

 upon the Skeletons of certain other Conirostral Birds aud of Tangers. 

 The Auk.'x. So. 4. October. 1888, pp. 438-444, 2 text figures. 



K. W. Shufeldt. On the Mesozoic Mammalia. 



The 11", >.< Ami S Mist, v. No. 3, November, 1888, pp. 20-22. 



Review of Professor Oabom'a Monograph published by the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia (vol. ix. No.2,Julj --- 

 R. W. SHUFELDT. Notes on Brewster's and the Blue-footed Ganuet. 



The A id; vi. January, 1889, p. 67. 

 R. W. SHUFELDT. The Navajo Tanner. 



Proc. r. S. Xat. Hits., XI, 1888, pp. 50 66 ; plates xxiii-xxviii. 



R. W. Shufeldt. Observations upon the Osteology of the North American Auseres, 



Proc. T. & Xat. Hue., XI, 18S9. pp. 215-251 ; 30 figures. 



