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hatch, Grey-backed Wagtail, Pied or Common Wagtail, Great 

 Grey Shrike, Chaffinch, Bullfinch, Common Kingfisher, Com- 

 mon Heron, Mallard or Wild Duck, Teal, Red-legged Par- 

 tridge, Great Shearwater, Nightingale, Aquatic Warbler, 

 Grasshopjier Warbler, Meadow Pipit, Golden Oriole, Tree 

 Sparrow, Pied Woodpecker, Bee-eater, Common or Grey 

 Partridge, Ptarmigan (3 plates). Golden Eagle, Raven, Car- 

 rion Crow, Jackdaw, Jay, Red-billed Chough, Richard's 

 Pipit, Barred or Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Puffin, White- 

 fronted Goose, Shoveller, Red-crested Pochard. 



7Q. Lucas on the Osteology of the Thrushes. 



[Notes on the Osteology of tlie Thrushes, Miminse, and Wrens. By 

 Frederic A. Lucas. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1888, p. 173.] 



Mr. Lucas has endeavoured to solve the disputed question 

 whether the Mocking-birds (Miminae) should be referred to 

 the Turdidse or the Troglodytidee by the study of their oste- 

 ology. His conclusions are that the Miminte occupy a 

 " somewhat intermediate position," but " should not be in- 

 cluded in the very sharply defined family Troglodytidse.'' 



77. Marage 07i the Sympathetic System of Birds. 



[Anatomie Descriptive du Sympathique chez les Oiseaux. Par II, 

 Marage. Ann. d. Sci. Nat. Zool. s6r. 7, vii. (1889) pp. 1-72, 6 pis.] 



This paper gives an account of the entire sympathetic 

 system of birds, as studied in the Duck, Fowl, Swan, and 

 other types, including the intestinal and cardiac nerves, and 

 also the vagus and glossopharyngeal. The sympathetic is di- 

 vided into cephalic, cervical, thoracic, and abdominal regions, 

 and each of these is treated separately, after a short intro- 

 duction dealing with the literature of each part. The author's 

 investigations have led him to regard the sympathetic of 

 Birds as intermediate in its characters between that of Rep- 

 tiles and Mammals ; it agrees with that of Reptiles in the 

 intimate connection between the thoracic sympathetic ganglia 

 and the corresponding spinal ganglia. The intestinal nerves 

 do not, as in Man, form numerous and large plexuses ; on the 



