460 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



[Psaltriparus) " than that of other birds with which it has 

 been compared. The cranial characters tend in the same 

 direction, and " force us to believe " that Chamaea is more 

 nearly allied to Psaltriparus than to any other bird of the 

 North-American avifauna. 



98. Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Water-birds. 



[Contributions to the Comparative Osteology of Arctic and Sub-Arctic 

 Water-Birds— Part VI. By R. W. Shufeldt, M.D., C.M.Z.S. Journ. 

 Anat. & Physiol, xxiv. p. 169.] 



Dr. Shufeldt continues his studies on the osteology of the 

 Water-birds (see above, p. 381), and now treats of the Loons 

 and Grebes. He does not at all agree with the plan of the 

 " Check-list " in separating these two families, and uniting 

 the Loons with the Avvks. However widely separated now, 

 Dr. Shufeldt believes that the Loons and Grebes are derived 

 from the same ancestral stock. 



The osteological characters of the Loons are concisely 

 summarized in seven numbered paragraphs at the close of the 

 article. 



99. Stejneger on Birds from Kauai, Hawaiian Islands. 



[Notes on a third Collection of Birds made in Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, 

 by Valdemar Knudsen. By Leonbard Stejneger. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 xii. pp. 377-386.] 



Dr. Stejneger, who, though " Curator of the Department 

 of Reptiles and Batrachians" in the U.S. National Museum, 

 does not, we are happy to see, neglect the birds, gives us an 

 account of another collection of his correspondent, Mr. 

 Knudsen, in Kauai, of the Hawaiian Islands. As must be 

 the case with all collections from this locality, it is full of 

 interest. Additional specimens now convince the author of 

 the identity of his Puffinus knudseni with P. cuneatus, Salvin. 

 Buhveria bulweri (!) is an unexpected addition to the Hawaiian 

 list. Dr. Stejneger is now "fully satisfied" that Phaornis is 

 very closely allied to Myiadestes, and should be included in 

 the same group. This is certainly, as he remarks, of " very 



