Recently published Ornithological Works. 343 



The following species are well figured in tliis work : — 

 Hierofalco gyrfalco, Scops brucii, Carine bactriana, Podoces 

 biddulphi, Rhodopechys sanguinea, Carpodacus stoliczka, 

 ^githalus coronatus, Leptopoecile sophia, Tribura major, 

 Phylloscopus tytleri, Cettia orientalis, Dendrocopus leucopterus 

 (two plates), Turtur stoiiczkce, and Tetraogallus hiinalayensis. 



In a supplement are added some plates prepared by 

 Mr. Hume for a projected work on the * Avifauna of the 

 British Indian Empire/ but perhaps a little out of place 

 here, as the species represented are not found in Yarkand. 

 They represent Hierofalco saker, Scops balli, Carine pulchr a, 

 Heteroglaux blewitti, Garrulus leucotis, and Cyanops incognita. 



60. Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Water-birds. 



[Contributions to the Comparative Osteology of Arctic and Subarctic 

 AVater-birds. Part IX. By R. W. Shufeldt, M.D., C.M.Z.S., &c. Jouru. 

 Auat. & Physiol, xxv. p. 509.] 



In the ninth of his series of memoirs on arctic and sub- 

 arctic Water-birds {cf Ibis, 1891, p. 287), Dr. Shufeldt 

 diverges somewhat from his subject to study Chionis and 

 compare it with the Gulls and Plovers. The sternum of 

 Chionis is more like that of Hamatopus than that of the 

 Laridse, and such is also the case with the pelvis and pectoral 

 and pelvic limbs. On the whole Chionis has its " nearest 

 living allies •" in Hcematopus and in " such forms as Glareola." 



61. Shufeldt on Tertiary Fossil Birds from N. America. 



[Tertiary Fossils of North-American Birds. By R. W. Shufeldt, M.D. 

 Auk, viii. p. 365.] 



Dr. Shufeldt has examined an extensive series of remains 

 of fossil birds from the Silver-Lake region of South-western 

 Oregon, and has been able to identify 51 species, of which 

 13 appear to be new to science. He now gives a preliminary 

 account of the collection, which contains altogether some 1500 

 specimens, mostly water-birds (Gavise, Steganopodes, Anseres, 

 Herodiones, and Limicolee), and promises a quarto memoir 

 on the subject later on. 



