NoA.] COUES'S OENITH. BIBLIOGRAPHY CHIONIDIDiE. 841 



ChionididaB. 



1836. BliAiNViLiiE, M. H. D. de. Sur la place que doit occuper dans le systfeme orni- 

 thologique le genre CMouis on Bec-en-fonrreau. <^ Comptes Bend, de VAcad. 

 Sci. , iii, 1836, pp. 155-164. 

 Pas Tu moi-menie. 



1836. BLAnsrviLLE, M. H. D. de. M^moire sur la place que doit occuper dans le sys- 

 teme ornitliologique le genre CMonis ou Bec-en-fonrreau. <^ Ann. des Sci. Nat., 

 2e s6r., vi, 1836, pp. 97-106. 



This I have seen, and in fact have closely studied ; but the title is taken at second-hand, and 

 may not be literally correct. 

 ' Various previous writers upon the subject had either passed over the systematic position 

 of CMonis as not determiaed, or, in attempting its determination, had in turn considered the 

 bird as grallatorial, natatorial, and gallinaceous, and had placed it in one or another of the 

 recognized families, or had made of it a distinct family. The present author, writing at a 

 time when only three specimens of CMonis alba were known 1o him to have existed, describes 

 briefly the external parts of this species, and in more detail the osteology, the material for the 

 study of the latter being an incomplete skeleton obtained through M. Baillon from M. P. E. 

 Botta, who also contributed some details of the visceral anatomy. Eelyiag chiefly upon the 

 characters of the sternum in classification, M. De Blainville made the bird out to be an 

 6chassier, closely related to Hcematopus. The reasons for his conclusions are stated cate- 

 gorically in thirteen propositions on p. 106. The position here taken is defended with learn- 

 ing and ingenuity, and has been until recently very generally accepted without question. — Cf. 

 Bull. TT. £ Nat. Mus., No. 3, 1876, pp. 86-88. 



1841. Hartlaub, G. Nonveile especede Bee en fourreau (CMonis [minor]). <^JRevue 

 Zoologique, iv, 1841, pp. 5, 6; v, 1842, pi. 2, figg. 2, 2a, 2b. 



Cette esp^ce est devenue plus tard le type du genre nouveau OMonarchus de MM. Kidder 

 et Cones, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., n". 3, 1876, p. 116, q. v. EUe a 6te figur^e par M. G-. E. Gray, 

 Gen. Birds. 



1858. Eyton, T. C. Note on the Skeleton of the Sheath-bill (CMonis alba). < P. Z. 

 aS., xxvi,1858,pp.99,100. 

 Inclines to place it with Olareola. 



1858. Eyton, Tt C. Note on the Skeleton of the Sheath-bill (Chionis alba). <^Atin. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., ii, 1858, p. 67. 

 Prom P. Z. S., Feb. 23, 1858, pp. 99, 100. 



1869. Cunningham, E. O. On Chionis alba. <^Journ. Anat. and PlMjsiol., Nov., 1869, 



pp. 87-89, pi. vii. 

 A brief description, illustrated by figures, of the principal digestive organs, and larynx. 



1870. Cunningham, R. 0. On Chiaris [sic] alba. <^Be2h Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. fw 



1869, 1870, (Misc. Comm.), p. 111. 



Anatomical notes on CMonis alba. 

 1867. SCLATER, P. L. [Exhibition of a skin of Chionis minor.] <P. Z. S., ixxv, 

 1867, p. 891. 



Prom the Crozet Islands, being that mentioned by E. L. Layard in Ibis, 1867, p. 458. 



1871. Newton, A. [Egg of Chionis minor figured.] < P. Z. a?., Jan. 17, 1871, p. 57, pi. 



iv, f. 7. 



Not properly citable as a separate article: the notice occurs in a paper entitled, "On some 

 New or Rare Birds' Eggs ", running pp. 55-58, pi. iv, figg. 1-8 of the periodical in mention. 



1876. Kidder, J. H. An interesting Bird [Chionis minor]. <^Po2mlar Science Monthly, 

 viii. No. 48, Apr. , 1876, pp. 657-665, figs. 1-3. 

 Popular account of the histoiy, characters, and habits of this species. 

 1876. [Kidder, J. H. ] The Natural History of Kerguelen Island. < Am. Nat., x, No. 

 8, 1876, pp. 481-484. 

 Editorial, prepared from Dr. Kidder's uaner. CMonis minor the only bird treated. 



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