﻿Recently 
  published 
  Ornithological 
  Works. 
  145 
  

  

  (see 
  our 
  notice 
  o£ 
  this 
  capital 
  essay 
  above, 
  p. 
  130). 
  The 
  21 
  

   memoirs 
  are 
  as 
  follows 
  (we 
  can 
  give 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  their 
  

   titles) 
  : 
  — 
  (1) 
  Prof. 
  King 
  writes 
  upon 
  the 
  digestion 
  and 
  digestive 
  

   organs 
  of 
  Birds, 
  especially 
  of 
  the 
  Geese, 
  which 
  he 
  complains 
  is 
  

   a 
  rather 
  neglected 
  subject. 
  (2) 
  M. 
  A. 
  Milne-Edwards 
  con- 
  

   tributes 
  an 
  important 
  essay 
  on 
  the 
  Fossil 
  Birds 
  of 
  the 
  Eocene 
  

   phosphatic 
  lime-deposits 
  of 
  the 
  south 
  of 
  France, 
  in 
  which 
  

   the 
  following 
  new 
  forms 
  are 
  described 
  : 
  — 
  Aquila 
  hypogcea, 
  

   Necrobyas 
  (gen. 
  nov. 
  Accipitr.) 
  harpax, 
  N. 
  rossignoli, 
  Otus 
  

   henrici, 
  Bubo 
  incertus, 
  Dynamopterus 
  (gen. 
  nov. 
  Zygodact.) 
  

   velox, 
  Archceotrogoii 
  venustus. 
  Geranopterus 
  alatus, 
  Tachyornis 
  

   hirundo, 
  Filholornis 
  pardasca, 
  F. 
  gravis, 
  F. 
  debilis, 
  Pterocles 
  

   validus, 
  P. 
  larvatus, 
  Pakeortyx 
  ocyptera, 
  P. 
  cayluxensis, 
  Ge- 
  

   ranopsis 
  (gen. 
  nov. 
  Gruid.) 
  elatus, 
  Ardea 
  amissa, 
  Rallus 
  

   dasypusjR. 
  arenarius, 
  Orthocnemus 
  gallicus, 
  0. 
  major, 
  0. 
  minor, 
  

   Elaphrocnemus 
  phasianus 
  , 
  E. 
  gracilis, 
  E. 
  crex, 
  and 
  Tapinopus 
  

   (gen. 
  nov.) 
  ellioti. 
  (3) 
  M. 
  F. 
  de 
  Schaeck 
  treats 
  of 
  varieties 
  

   of 
  plumage 
  in 
  birds 
  as 
  exhibited 
  by 
  specimens 
  in 
  the 
  Paris 
  

   Museum. 
  (4) 
  M. 
  Alphonse 
  Dubois, 
  of 
  Brussels, 
  in 
  reply 
  to 
  

   the 
  question 
  suggested 
  by 
  the 
  Congress 
  in 
  one 
  of 
  its 
  circulars 
  

   as 
  to 
  tlie 
  establishment 
  of 
  a 
  " 
  classification 
  interuationale,"'' 
  

   puts 
  forward 
  the 
  system 
  adopted 
  in 
  his 
  " 
  Revue 
  des 
  dernieres 
  

   classifications 
  ornithologiques/' 
  of 
  which 
  we 
  have 
  previously 
  

   spoken 
  (Ibis, 
  1892, 
  p. 
  167). 
  (5) 
  Dr. 
  E. 
  Oustalet 
  con- 
  

   tributes 
  a 
  report 
  on 
  " 
  la 
  Biologic 
  des 
  Oiseaux," 
  at 
  the 
  close 
  

   of 
  which 
  he 
  gives 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  27 
  questions 
  in 
  the 
  domain 
  of 
  

   " 
  la 
  Biologie 
  Ornithologique," 
  and 
  directs 
  the 
  attention 
  of 
  

   the 
  Congress 
  to 
  them. 
  (6) 
  Herr 
  Johanu 
  v. 
  Csato 
  furnishes 
  

   a 
  report 
  on 
  the 
  Diurnal 
  Birds 
  of 
  Pj-ey 
  of 
  Transylvania. 
  

   (7) 
  Dr. 
  Karl 
  Russ 
  writes 
  on 
  the 
  nests 
  and 
  nestling-plumages 
  

   of 
  foreign 
  cage-birds 
  — 
  a 
  subject 
  in 
  which, 
  as 
  we 
  all 
  know, 
  he 
  is 
  

   well 
  versed. 
  (8) 
  Herr 
  Stefan 
  v. 
  Chernel 
  describes 
  the 
  breeding 
  

   and 
  migrations 
  of 
  the 
  Red-necked 
  Phalarope 
  [Phalaropus 
  

   hyperboreus) 
  and 
  adds 
  a 
  beautiful 
  coloured 
  plate, 
  illustrating 
  

   the 
  nestlings 
  of 
  this 
  species. 
  (9) 
  Herr 
  Adam 
  v. 
  Buda 
  writes 
  

   upon 
  the 
  rare 
  birds 
  of 
  certain 
  districts 
  of 
  Hungary, 
  observed 
  

   during 
  the 
  past 
  32 
  years. 
  (10) 
  Dr. 
  R. 
  Blasius 
  discourses 
  

   on 
  the 
  principles 
  of 
  "^ 
  Oology/'' 
  (11) 
  Mr. 
  Henry 
  G. 
  Hall 
  

  

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