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59. Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Limicolce. 

 [Osteology of the Limicolae. By Dr. R. W. Shufeldt. Ann. Carnegie 



Mus. vol. ii. pp. 15-70, pi., cuts.] 



Dr. Shufeldt here gives us a very full account of the 

 Osteology of the Limicolfle, chiefly derived from the study of 

 Vanellus, Charadrius, yEgialitis, Numenius, Phalaropus, 

 Tringa, and its nearest allies, Scolopax, Gallinago, Aphriza, 

 and the Parridse. In different directions he traces affinities 

 to the Laridre, Ibididce, Eurypygidae, Rallidse, and Tubi- 

 nares, while his ideas of the mutual relationships of the 

 respective forms will be seen at a glance from his table. 



60. Snodgrass and Heller on Birds from the Galapagos. 



[Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898-1899. 

 XVI. Birds. By R. E. Snodgrass and E. Heller. Proc. Washington 

 Acad, of Sc. v. pp. 231-372 (1904).] 



This is an elaborate essay on the birds collected in the 

 various islands of the Galapagan Archipelago by the Natu- 

 ralists of the « Hopkins-Stanford Expedition" of 1898-9, 

 and now deposited in the Museum of the Leland- Stanford- 

 Junior University at Palo Alto, California. The species of 

 which specimens have been obtained in the Galapagos by 

 other collectors (but not on this occasion) are inserted in their 

 places, so that we have here a complete account of the 

 peculiar Avifauna up to date, which may be compared with 

 those of Mr. Kidgway (Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. xix., 1896) 

 and of Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert (Nov. Zool. vol. vi., 

 1899). 



A few lines of Introduction inform us that the arrange- 

 ment employed is that of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, and begins, therefore, with the lowest forms. We 

 observe that even the habitual grammatical errors of that 

 List are faithfully followed. But there is one important 

 amelioration introduced. The " subspecies " are not given 

 quite the same rank as the " species/'' but are designated by 

 letters, a, b, c, &c, added to the number borne by the species. 

 Thus under species " 63. Geospiza fortis " we find ranged 

 63 c. Geospiza fortis fortis, 63 6. G. f. fratercula, &c. 



