47.2 Recently pubUshed Ormtholnyical Works. 



contains an account of the Lariformes^ Procellariiformes, 

 Colymbiformes, Podicipediforraes, Ralliformes, Colurabi- 

 formeSj and GalliformeSj according to liis system of nomen- 

 clature, and concludes the work. An Appendix gives some 

 additions to the three previous volumes. There are 35 

 coloured plates to illustrate these Orders. 



In his preface to the present volume, Dr. Sharpe takes the 

 opportunity of replying to his critics on the subject of 

 nomenclature, and prophesies that the writers in scientific 

 journals (among whom we suppose he includes the Editors 

 of ' The Ibis ') " will be found adopting his nomenclature in 

 the near future ■'^ ! To this we can only answer, " Wait and 

 Ave shall see ! " But lie does not attempt to reply to the 

 chief fault we find with his names — that is, the unnecessary 

 multiplication of generic terms. In our remarks on the 

 previous volume (Ibis, 1896, p. 418) we have called attention 

 to this point, and it is not necessary to repeat them on the 

 present occasion. 



87. Shvfe.Idt on some Fossil Bones of Birds. 



[Fossil Bones of Birds and Mammals from Grotto Pietro Tamponi and 

 Grive-St. Alban. By R. W. Shufeldt, M.D. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliilad. 

 1896, p. 607.] 



Dr. Shufeldt gives an account of a collection of fossil 

 bones of birds and mammals belonging to Mr. John Eyer- 

 man, obtained partly from the Grotto Pietro Tamponi, in 

 Sardinia, and partly from the upper division of the Miocene 

 beds of Grive-St. Alban, Isere, France, and refers some of 

 them to described species, whilst others are left unde- 

 termined. But on a tibio-tarsus and tarsus from the former 

 locality he proposes to base a new species of Shearwater 

 [Puffinus eyermanni), and on a nearly complete upper portion 

 of a right tibio-tarsus from Grive-St. Alban a new Tantalus, 

 to be called T. milne-edwardsi. 



88. Stirling and Zietz on Genyoruis newtoni. 



[Preliminary Notes on Genyornis newtoni, a new Genus and Species 

 of Fossil Struthious Bird found at Lake Callabonna, Soiitli Australia. 



