i6a. Shufeldt on Hie Chionididcc. I" April 



In 1891 the present writer's memoir 1 on Chionis minor 

 appeared, which has been referred to at the beginning of this 

 article, and in the same year there was published the very ad- 

 mirable contribution to the classification of birds by Dr. Sharpe 

 of the British Museum, one of the most useful papers now in 

 the hands of systematic ornithologists. 2 With the exception of 

 the present writer's article from the 'Journal of Anatomy,' Doctor 

 Sharpe had before him at the time of his writing his 'Review,' 

 all the schemes of classification of Aves mentioned in this paper, 

 and no doubt many others not herein noticed ; and in it he sets 

 forth his own most able views upon the taxonomy of the class. 

 The Sheathbills are thus placed : — 



Order XVIII Suborders Families 



XXII. Dromades Dromadidae. 



XXIII. Chionides Chionididse. 



XXIV. Attagides { ^"agidae- 

 t Thinocondae. 



Hastnatopodidae. 



XXV. Charadrii \ Charadriidse. 



oi \ (. Scolopacidae. 



§ XXVI. Glareolae 



* I XXVII. Cursorii 

 B / XXVIII. Parrse 

 U I XXIX. CEdicnemi 

 XXX. Otides 



Further Dr. Sharpe places the Gulls in his Order XVII, — the 

 Lariformes, containing the suborder Lari, and the two families 

 Stercorariidae and Laridae, the latter containing the three sub- 

 families Larinae, Sterninae and Rhynchopinae. 



Previous to having seen Dr. Sharpe's classification the present 

 writer had the following in manuscript to be used in his forth- 

 coming work upon the osteology of birds. 



1 Shufeldt, R. W. — Contributions to the Comparative Osteology of Arctic and Sub- 

 arctic Water-Birds, Part IX. Jour. Anat. and Phys. Vol. XXV, n. s. Vol. V, pt. IV, 

 Art. V, Plates XI, XII, London, July, 1891, pp. 509-525. The entire part is devoted 

 to the osteology of C. minor, and several figures are given of its skull, other figures of 

 the bones of the skeleton having appeared in earlier parts of this series of memoirs. 



2 Sharpe, R. Bowdler.— A Review of Recent Attempts to Classify Birds; An Address 

 delivered before the 2nd Intern. Ornith. Cong, at Budapest, May, 1891. Budapest, 



