Recently published Ornithological Works. 381 



Picarise* (i. e. Bucorvus) presents no small amount of resem- 

 blance to it. But we are not yet quite prepared to unite the 

 Mimogypes and Syndactyly in the same " Suborder/' 



Whatever may be our appreciation of Mr. Seebohm's new 

 System, we must allow that the author has done an excellent 

 piece of work in thus summarizing the results to be arrived 

 at from the study of the labours of Nitzsch, Sundevall, Hux- 

 ley, Garrod, and Forbes, and in placing them before us in 

 such an intelligible form. 



75. Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Water-Birds. 

 [Contributions to the Comparative Osteology of Arctic and Subarctic 



Water-Birds. Part V. By R. W. Shufeldt, M.D., C.M.Z.S. Jouru. 

 Anat. & Physiol, xxiv. p. 89.] 



Dr. Shufeldt continues his studies of the Arctic and Sub- 

 arctic water-birds (cf. supra, p. 260), and in the present 

 contribution to this subject descants on the skeleton of the 

 Puffins (Fraterculinse). In his conclusions he states that 

 there can be no question as to the right of admission of the 

 Puffins into the Alcidse, and that perhaps the creation of the 

 genus Lunda will prove to be a warranted step. The memoir, 

 as usual, is well and fully illustrated. 



76. Shufeldt on Progress in Avian Anatomy. 



[Progress in Avian Anatomy for the years 1888-89. By R. W. 

 Shufeldt, M.D., C.M.Z.S. Journ. Comp. Med. & Veterin. Arch., January 

 1890.] 



Dr. Shufeldt has every claim to our attention when he 

 speaks of Avian Anatomy, and his address on the subject 

 read at the seventh Congress of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, held at New York last year, will be read with interest. 

 We are pleased to see Dr. Shufeldt's announcement that 

 Messrs. Macmillan have accepted for publication his complete 

 treatise on the muscles of the Raven. A good modern text- 

 book on birds' muscles is much required, and will be very 

 useful to ornithologists. 



* Picarise cannot properly be used for a group which does not contain 

 the Woodpeckers, so that we prefer the alternative name a Syndactyly " 

 for this group. 



