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to be fully as important to ornithologists as ever. The * Pro- 

 ceediags ' are so well known and appreciated, that we scarcely 

 need do more than allude to the single Part which has reached 

 us during the past year. But the ' Transactions ^contain, in ex- 

 tenso, Mr. Parker's valuable paper "On the Osteology of Gallina- 

 ceous Birds and Tinamous," in which he shows, we think satis- 

 factorily, that this last-named group is the nearest ally of the 

 Struthiones ; at the same time we are far from considering that 

 the TinamidcB should be included among the Struthious birds, 

 such a view, in our opinion, being forbidden by the presence in 

 Tinamus of a furcula, a keeled entosternum, and the peculiar 

 development of the hyposternal processes. We regret to say 

 that the plates illustrating this remarkable paper are, with the 

 exception of the few figures drawn by Mr. Parker himself, very 

 inferiorly executed, being in most cases deficient in character, 

 while the method adopted of figuring the whole skeleton in an 

 upright and presumed natural posture effectually serves to con- 

 ceal some of the most interesting portions of it. The letters 

 also which should distinguish the different bones or parts of 

 bones seem in some instances to be not sufficiently discrimi- 

 native : thus we have, in Plate xxxv. fig. 6, ' e.s.' signifying both 

 entosternal and episternal processes, while this last, on the other 

 hand, in Plate xxxix. is apparently indicated by ' e.^t^ 



We have also to record the appearance of the first portion of 

 the ' Ootheca Wolleyana ' *, respecting which, for obvious reasons, 

 we refrain from making any remarks. We may take this 

 opportunity, however, of expressing our disappointment at having 

 been obliged to delay the publication of the Second part of the 

 work, which, notwithstanding, we hope shortly to accomplish. 



2. German. 

 In noticing the last number of the ' Museum Heineanum 'fj 



* Ootheca Wolleyana : an illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of 

 Birds' Eggs formed by the late John Wolley, Jun., M.A., F.Z.S. Edited 

 from the original notes by Alfred Newton, M.A., F.L.S. Part 1. Accipitres. 

 Royal 8vo. London : 1864 (Van Voorst). 



t Museum Heineanum, 8sc. von Dr. Jean Cabanis und Ferdinand 



