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magnirostris , which is described at length and illustrated by 

 seven photographic plates taken by himself. Dr. Shufeldt 

 considers that there is little or no ground for the alleged 

 close relationship of the Stone-Plovers and the Bustards, 

 but that the Stone-Plovers bridge the gap between the 

 Plovers and the Gulls. A second article deals with the 

 osteology of Harris's Flightless Cormorant {Nannopterum 

 harrisi), of the Galapagos Is. Dr. Shufeldt asserts that the 

 claim of this Cormorant to generic distinction rests solely 

 on the modifications of the skeleton due to the loss of flight. 

 A third article deals with the eggs of birds as compared with 

 those of reptiles and is of a general nature. 



There are a number of excellent field-notes, generally 

 illustrated with photographs of the nests and eggs, of various 

 Australian birds ; among them are those of Mr. A. W. 

 Swindells on the nesting-places of Phalacrocorax gouldi on 

 the steep and inaccessible cliffs of the Tasmanian coast, of 

 Miss Fletcher on the nesting of the Black Cormorant 

 (P. carbo) along a Tasmanian river, of Mr. A. H. Chisholm 

 on the Yellow-fronted Shrike-Tit {Falcunculus frontatus) in 

 Victoria, and of Mr. S. A. Hanscombe on the Night-Heron 

 {Nycticorax caledonicus) in New South Wales. 



Mr. H. L. White has rediscovered the rare form of the 

 Eosella Parrot [Platycercus splendidus) on the borders of 

 New South Wales and Queensland, and gives some account 

 of its distribution and that of its better-known congener, 

 P. eximius. The first-named seems to have been lost sight 

 of since Gould described it in 1845. 



The only new forms we find described in the present 

 volume are two new Petrels, or perhaps more correctly 

 Shearwaters, recently discovered on the coast of New South 

 Wales by Mr. A. F. Basset Hull. These are Cinathisma 

 cyanoleuca, gen. et sp. n., and Neonedris tenuirostris 

 gratianus, subsp. n, "We venture to doubt whether the first- 

 named form is sufficiently distinct to warrant the introduction 

 of a new generic name as distinct from Puffinus, but about 

 this it is difficult to make a positive assertion unless one has 

 an opportunity of examining the original specimen. 



