150 Recenflij pttblis/jcd Ornitholo(/ical Works. 



neglected cranium Prof. Parker has clone well^ and those 

 who study his memoir cannot fail to he impressed with his 

 careful work and well-drawn conclusions, which result in 

 the proposal of the following classification of the subclass 

 Ratitte : — 



Subclass RATIT^, Merrem. 



Order I. STRUTHIONES, Newton. 



Fam. SteuthionidjE. Genus Struthio. 

 Order II. RHE.I^:, Newton. 



Fam. Rheid.e. Genus Rhea. 

 Order III. MEGISTANES, Newton, 



Suborder 1. Casuariformes, Fiirbring^er. 

 Fam. 1. Casuakiid^. Genus Cnsuarius. 

 „ 2. DROMiEiDiE. Genus Dromcpus. 

 Suborder 2. Apterygifoemes, Furbrhiger. 



Fam. 1. DlNORNITHID^. 



Subfam. a. Dinornithinse. Genus Dlnornis. 



„ b. Anoraalopteryginse. Genera Pdchyoniis, 



Mesopteryx, Anomalopteryx *. 

 „ c. Emeiuse. Genus Emeus. 

 Fam. 2. Apterygid^. Genus Apteryx. 



25. Prazdk on some of the Paridte. 



[Versuch einer Monographie der palaearktiscbcn Sumpfmei?en {Poccile, 

 Kaup). Von J. P. Prazak. Ornith. Jahrb. vi. Ileft 1, pp. 8-59. 



Einige Notizen uber die Kohl-, Hauben- und Blaumeisen. Op. cit. 

 Heft 3, 1895.] 



Herr Prazak has taken the Tits under his special charge, 

 and, besides the two treatises cited above, has published a 

 series of articles on Parus ater and its near allies in the 

 ' Mittheilungen des ornithologischen Vereines in Wien ' for 

 1894. In the first of the above papers he leads us into a 

 perfect labyrinth of subspecies, and after trying to follow 

 liim through 59 pages, we find " to be continued." In the 

 second paper the British and Persian Great Tits are sepa- 

 rated as subspecies — the former under the name Parus major 

 neivtonij and its Persian representative as P. m. blanfordi. 

 We wish our good friends joy of their name-fellows ! 



* And pi'obably Megalapteryx. 



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