562 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



90. Bronn's ' Thier-Reich' {Aves). 



[Dr. H. G. Broun's Klassen und Orduuugen des Thier-Reichs wissen- 

 scliaftlich dargestellt iu Wort und Bild. Seclister Baud. Vierte Abthei- 

 kmg : \'ogel. Von Hans Gadow u. Dr. Emil Selenka. Leipzig u. 

 Heidelberg, 1891.] 



The recently issued number of the " Aves " of ' Bronn's 

 Thier-Reich/ containing Lieferungen 37 to 41, concludes tlie 

 Anatomical portion of this standard work. The first four 

 numbers, prepared by Dr. Selenka, were issued in 1869 and 

 1870_, after which the subject slept until 1884, wlieu the 

 authorship was taken up by Dr. Gadow^ who has now 

 brought this volume to a conclusion. 



Prof. Selenka^s contribution contained the Osteology and 

 the commencement of the Myology, which Avas finished by 

 Dr. Gadow, who also has given us chapters on the Nervous 

 System, the Sense-organs, the Pterylosis^ and the Digestive, 

 Respiratory, Vascular, and Uriuogenital Systems, concluding 

 with a general account of the Embryology and Development^ 

 thus making altogether a volume of 1008 pages, illustrated 

 by 59 plates. 



If we understand right, Dr. Gadow proposes to issue a 

 second volume, on the Systematic Arrangement of Birds, of 

 which he has given us a foretaste in a paper lately read before 

 the Zoological Society of London. * 



97. Butler on the Carolina Parrakeet. 



[Notes on the Range and Habits of the Carolina Parrakeet. By Amos 

 W. Butler. Auk, ix. p. 49.] 



The former range of the Carolina Parrakeet {Conurus 

 carolinensis) , now almost exterminated, and confined to one 

 or two restricted areas in the Southern States, is described in 

 this article. Within historic times this Parrakeet extended 

 into New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kansas, Nebraska, 

 and probably Colorado. In Indiana and Ohio it was a 

 characteristic bird. Wilson mentions its occurrence near 

 Lake Michigan in lat. 42°. 



* P. Z. S. 1892, p. 229. 



