Ornithological Literature of 1872. 455 



Character of the Muscular Sheath of that Tube as regards 



Sauropsida. P. Z. S. 1872, pp. 16-18. 

 Mr. Gulliver shows that this bird has no transversely stri- 

 ated muscular fibre on the oesophagus, and agrees in this re- 

 spect with the rest of the class Aves. 



Gundlach, Dr. Jean. 



Neue Beitrdge sur Ornithologie Cubas. Nach Eigeners 30- 



jdhrigen Beobachtungen zusammengestellt. Journ. f. Orn. 



1872, pp. 401-432. 



A continuation of this highly valuable paper, mentioned in 



our last Index (Ibis, 1871, p. 431), treating of the species of 



Turdidae, Sylviidae, Sylvicolidse, Tanagridse, Tyrannidae, Mus- 



cicapidee, and Hirundinidse. 



Gunther, Dr. A. 



Note on a Deformed Example of Cariama cristata. Ann. & 

 Mag. N. H. ser. 4. x. p. 67. 



The specimen described is in the British Museum : it has 

 an abnormally short neck and legs. 



Gurney, John Henry. 



1. Notes on the Birds of Damara Land and the adjacent 

 Countries of South and West Africa. By the late 

 Charles John Andersson. Arranged and edited by 

 John Henry Gurney. London : 1872. 8vo, pp. 394. 



A valuable contribution to our knowledge of South- African 

 ornithology. Besides Andersson's notes, remarks on questions 

 of synonymy, distribution, &c. are added by the editor. The 

 species commented upon are 428 in number, " observed either 

 as residents, as migrants, or as accidental visitors in that part 

 of South-western Africa, of which Damara Land is the central 

 portion," identified in most cases by the editor from personal 

 examination. The frontispiece gives a map of the district; and 

 three lithographic plates are added of the sternum and trachea 

 of Machirhamphus anderssoni. 



2. Letter from. Ibis, 1872, p. 83. 



On a supposed Indian specimen of Athene noctua, which is 

 identified as A. brama, and on Otus brachyotus from the Sand- 

 wich Islands. 



