252 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



61. f^hufeldt on the Osteology of Arctic and Sub- Arctic 

 Water-birds. 



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

 Water-Biids. Parti. By E. W. Shufeldt, M.D., C.M.Z.S. Plates I.- V. 

 Journ. Anat. and Physiology, xxiii. p. 1 (1888).] 



Dr. Shufeldt^s observations and excellent illustrations in 

 the present memoir are based upon a very extensive collec- 

 tion of skeletons of Arctic waterfowl placed under his charge 

 for description by Prof. Baird^ to which have been added 

 materials from other quarters. The skeleton of Alca torda 

 is described at full length, and comparative notes on Alca 

 impennis are added. The plates refer also to other species 

 that will be subsequently described. 



62. Shufeldt on Gallus bankiva. 



[Observations upon the Morphology of Oalliis bankiva of India. (In- 

 cluding a Complete Account of its Skeleton.) By li. W. Shufeldt, M.D., 

 C.M.Z.S. Journ. Comp. Med. and Sui-gery, Oct. 1888.] 



Dr. Shufeldt describes the anatomy and osteology of a pair 

 of the Wild Jungle-fowl of India {Gallus bankiva) — the sup- 

 posed origin of our domestic Fowl — with the idea that, as 

 suggested by Forbes, it may serve as a standard of comparison 

 of the various races of the domestic birds that have descended 

 from it. Good illustrative woodcuts are given. 



63. Stejneger on the European Marsh-Tits. 



[Notes on European Marsh-Tits, with Description of a new Subspecies 

 from Norway. By L. Stejneger. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1888, p. 71.] 



JSir. Stejneger maintains that the so-called Parus borealis 

 of the Alps is quite diflerent from the true P. borealis of 

 Scandinavia, and should be called P. montanus, having been 

 so named by Baldenstehi in 1822. " In Northern Europe the 

 true P. borealis occurs ; in Central Europe the large and 

 more brown-headed P. montanus ; their habitats are widely 

 separated and isolated. On the other hand, P. palustris 

 occurs all over Europe (except in Great Britain, where it is 

 represented by P. palustris dresscri), breeding even in the 

 same localities as P. borealis and P. montanus." Moreover 



