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other officers of the Italian corvette ' Vettor Pisani/ under 

 the command of Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, during a 

 voyage to Eastern Asia in 1879-81. The localities at which 

 collections were made were: — (1) Durderi, on the Somali 

 coast; (2) jNIaldive Islands; (3) Pulo-Pinang; (4) Singa- 

 pore; (5) Olga Bay, Vladivostock, and Possiet Bay, N.E. 

 Asia; (6) Japan; (7) China; (8) Manila; (9) Corea; (10) 

 Bangkok; and (11) Straits of Malacca. At these different 

 places 312 specimens altogether were obtained, which are 

 referred to 1(38 species. Amongst these Lanius dorsalis 

 and Amydrus hhjthi of Somali land, and Carine jmlchra of 

 Bangkok, may be regarded as of special interest. But the 

 gems of the collection were undoubtedly two specimens of 

 Cygnvs davidi, which, along with the other specimens from 

 Corea and Mantchuria, have been already described by the 

 same authors in a communication to the Zoological Society 

 of London'^. 



' 41. IShufe/dt on the Osteology of Stiwnella. 



[On the Skelet(in in the Genus Sturnella, with Osteological Notes upon 

 other North-American Icteridcs and the Corvidos. By R. W. Shufeldt. 

 Journ. Anat. and Phjs. xxii. p. 309.] 



In this memoir Dr. Shufeldt discusses at some length the 

 osteology of Sturnella and the various resemblances it pre- 

 sents to other Icteridse and American Corvidfe. He con- 

 cludes that Sturnella " undoubtedly belongs to the Icteridse,'' 

 and within that family ''probably has its nearest ally in 

 Xanthocephalus ." He maintains that Molothrus, usually asso- 

 ciated with the Icteridae, " is a genus of Finches, and should 

 be placed in the family Fringillidae,^' and that DoRchonyx, 

 no doubt, belongs there too. The memoir is illustrated by 

 two well-executed plates with numerous figures. 



42. Sliufeldt on the Osteology of Porzana Carolina. 



[Osteology of Porzana Carolina (the Carolina Rail). By R. W. Shu- 

 feldt. Journ. Comp. Med. and Surg., July 1888.] 



Dr. Shufeldt describes, in his usual accurate and exhaustive 

 * SeeP.Z. S. 1887, p. 580. 



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