No. i.] COUES.S ORNITH. BIBLIOGEAPHY — RALLIDiE. 891 



1868. SCLATEK, P. L., and Salvix, O. — Coutinued. 



spp., Aramides with. 7, Porzana with 18 (under the 7 snhgejiera. Porzana, Pufirallus, Latori- 

 rallus, Crybastus, Oreciscus, Coturnicops, and Neocrex (subg. n., p. 450)), CrexsmA Thyrorhina, 

 (g. n., p. 458) witli 1 each. The Fulicince embrace 4 genera, Porphyrio and Porphyriops 'with 

 2 spp. each, Gallinida with ^ , and Fidica with 7. Heliornithince aro also included, with 1 

 sp.—Porzana levravdi, p. 452, pi. xxxv; P. castaneiceps, p. 453; P. hauxwelK, p. 453, spp. nn. 

 (p. 105, pi. 53 of JExot. Ornith. quoted for the last named). The heads of several species 

 (Thyrorhina, the Gallinules, and the Coots) are figured on the woodcuts. 



1869. Anon. Creamcoloured Moor Hen [Gallinxila cliloropus]. <^ Zoologist, 2d ser., 



iv, 1869, p. 1601. 



1869. Bennett, G. [Letter on Birds of Lord Howe's Island. ] <P. Z. iS.,Nov. 11, 1869, 

 pp. 471, 472, pi. XXXV. 



Among those mentioned, one (Ocydromus sylvestris, Scl., p. 472, pi. xxxv) is new. 

 1869. Fraxjenfeld, G. v. Ueber den Artnamen von Aphanapteryx. < Verh. (Abh.) 

 d. k.-k. zooJ.-lot. GesellscJi. Wien, 1869, pp. 761-764. 

 ISTot seen — title from Zool. Pec. 

 The author obiects to the substitution of the name A. hroeckii for A. imperialis. 



1869. GUNN, T. E. Piebald Waterhen [Gallinnla cliloropus]. <:^ Zoologist, 2d ser., ir, 

 1869, p. 1848. 



1869. GuNN, T. E. Abundance of Landrails [Crex pratensis]. <C Zoologist, 2d ser,, iv, 

 1869, p. 1920. 



1869. GuRiSTET, J. H. [On a mode of capturing Ocydromus australis.] <^ Ibis, 2d 

 ser., V, 1869, p. 463. 



By displaying a red cloth, which would attract the bird so that it might be taken by hand— 

 an account singularly coincident with that given by Ho£fmann in the case of the Aphanap- 

 teryx, which Milne-Edwards determined to be near Ocydromus. 



1869. Hadfield, H. Nest and Eggs of tbe Corn Crake [Crex pratensis]. <^ Zoologist, 

 2d ser., iv, 1869. pp. 1920, 1921. 



1869. Hammond, W. O. Extraordinary Fligbt of Landrails [Crex pratensis]. <^Zo- 



ologist, 2d ser., iv,1869, p. 1951. 

 1869. Milne-Edwards, A. Observations sur les affinit^s zoologiques de I'Aphanap- 



teryx esp^ce ^teinte qui vivait encore a I'lle Maurice au xvii« sidcle. <^ Ann. 



Sd. Nat.,b'' ser., x, 1869, pp. 325-346, pll. 15-18. 

 Not seen — title from Zool. Rec. 



1869. Milne-Edwards, A. Researches into tbe Zoological Affinities of the Bird 

 recently described by Herr von Frauenfeld under the name of Aphanap teryx 

 imperialis. <^ Ibis, 2d ser., v, 1869, pp. 256-275, i^l. vii, woodcc. figg. 1-8. 



Places it among Rallidce. Identifies it with the bird figured by Pieter van den Broeck 

 {Yoy. Mauritius, 1617, flg. 1), which is Didus hroeckii Schleg. 



" This paper is distinct from another published in (Ann. Sc. Nat., 5*' s6r., x, pp. 325-346, 

 pis. 15-18) though, being written about the same time and the same materials, their similar- 

 ity is at first sight obvious, and the plate is the same in both after the facsimile in Ritter von 

 Frauenfeld's work (Zool. Bee, v, p. 103) ; but this paper contains woodcuts, from Strickland's 

 ' Dodo and its Kindred, ' of Van den Broecke's and Herbert's figures of the bird. By means 

 of the bones found in Mauritius by Mr. Edward Newton, the author makes out the affinities 

 of this extinct form, which, he says, should bear the name oi A. hroeckii (Schlegel), and holds 

 the place by the side of Ocydromus which that does to the more normal Rallidce." — Zool. Rec. 



1869. SCLATER, P. L. [Characters of a new Species of Ocydromus (sylvestris), p. 472, 

 pi. XXXV. ] <^P.Z.S., xxxvii, 1869, pp. 472, 473, pi. xxxv. 



1869. Walker, T. C. Curious position of Nest of Water Hen [Gallinula chloropus]. 



< Zoologist, 2d ser., iv, 1869, p. 1723. 



1870. COUES, E. The Clapper Rail [Rallus longirostris (crepitans)]. <^Am. Nat., 



iii, 1870, pp. 600-607. 

 Account of the breeding and other habits, from original observations at Eort Macon, N. C. 

 1870. Eeeks, H. Land Rail [Crex pratensis] found alive in a Pea-rick in January. 

 <iZoologist, 2d ser., v, 1870, pp. 2063, 2064. 



