Recently published Ornithological Works. 261 



Passerine circle/' The " Trochili," as already suggested, 

 should form a separate order, as he is now more than ever 

 convinced. In the skeleton of the Trogons Dr. Shufeldt 

 finds nothing " that in any way points to their being related, 

 even remotely, to the Caprimulgi." 



58. Shufeldt on the Herons. 



[Osteological Studies of the Subfamily Ardeinae. Parts I. & II. By 

 R. W. Shufeldt, M.D., C.M.Z.S. Journ. Comp. Med. & Surg. x. pp. 218, 



287.] 



In these two articles Dr. Shufeldt discusses the osteo- 

 logical characters of Ardea and its near allies. The woodcut 

 illustrations are of the usual excellence. At the conclusion 

 the chief points are summarized in a series of twenty-six 

 definite statements. 



59. Smith on the Birds of Lake Brunner District, New 

 Zealand. 



[On the Birds of Lake Brunner District. By W. W. Smith. Trans. 

 New-Zealand Inst. xxi. p. 205.] 



Mr. W. W. Smith gives us some very nice field-notes on 

 the birds of the district of Lake Brunner, Grey County, on 

 the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand, where 

 " the bush still remains in its primeval state, and many of the 

 anomalous and more specialized forms, now extinct east of the 

 Alps, enjoy in it a fairly genial home/' Among the species 

 still to be met with here are Stringops habroptilus, Nestor 

 meridionalis, Orthonyx ochrocephala, Xenicus longipes, and 

 Creadion carunculatus, while Apteryoc australis " exists in 

 considerable numbers in the bush round the Lake." But 

 the new " Midland Railway is now being pushed on through 

 the valley, so that many of these rare forms will very shortly 

 disappear." 



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