220 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



the main portion of this important work, which has cost the 

 energetic author eight years of incessant labour. No one, 

 we are sure, will allege that this labour has been in vain ; for 

 a more complete and elaborate memoir on the avifauna of 

 any part of the world has never been produced. Though 

 daily discoveries are being made among the eastern islands, 

 and the subject is far from being exhausted, Salvadori's 

 ' Ornithology of Papuasia ' will long remain the standard 

 work of reference upon the birds of that portion of the globe. 

 The third volume of this work embraces the birds of the 

 Orders Columbse, Gallinse, Grallatores, Natatores, and Stru- 

 thiones, besides a supplement of species discovered and de- 

 scribed dui'ing the progress of the work. The avifauna of 

 Papuasia and the Moluccas, or the " Papuan Subregion,^^ as 

 we should prefer to call it, is thus shown to contain 1028 

 species at present known to us. In conclusion Count Salva- 

 dori promises us an introductory volume to treat of the 

 history, bibliography, and geographical distribution of the 

 Papuan avifauna. 



71. Shufeldt's 'Anatomy of Birds.' 



[Contribution to the Anatomy of Birds. By R. W. Shufeldt, M.D. 

 U.S. Geol. & Geogr. Sui-v. Twelfth Annual Report, 1882, pp. 593-806.] 



This is a reprint of Dr. Shufeldt^s papers on the osteo- 

 logy of certain North- American Birds, most of which have 

 been already noticed in this Journal. It treats of Speotyto 

 cimicularia, Eremophila alpestris, and the North-American 

 Tetraonidse, Lanius ludovicianus, and the Cathartidse, and is 

 profusely illustrated with plates and woodcuts. 



72. Shufeldt on the Osteology of Cinclus mexicanus. 



[Notes upon the Osteology of Cinclus mexicanus. By R. W. Shufeldt. 

 Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, vii. p. 213.] 



Mr. Shufeldt continues his studies on the osteology of 

 North -American birds with an essay on the osseous structure 

 of Cinclus, which he considers to be " quite closely related to 

 Siurus, and not far removed from some of the Wrens." 



