332 General Notes. 
to new matter on the habits and distribution of some of tht 
_western members of this family. In this, as in former monographs, 
the author omits any detailed description of the osseous elements 
of the ear, or the respiratory tube, small sesamoids, or sudi 
tendons as may ossify in the extremities. It would be impossible, 
even if we had the requisite knowledge, to make any abstract ú 
this interesting comparative sketch of a group belonging to tht 
Gallinaceous birds, concerning whose osteology so much has beet 
written. We pause to notice that Dr. Shufeldt applies the name 
pentosteon to what in the first edition of this monograph he cated 
the pisiform bone, and which is the fifth bonelet in the avian wrist 
The chapter on the skeleton of the Lanius or shrike is succeeded by 
an interesting comparative essay on that of the vultures. Më 
publication of these papers should exert a most healthy influence | 
on the scientific study of the birds of this country, as the tendency 
is in systematic ornithology too much towards a reliance on supe 
ficial, external characters. 
A Waite Ravey.—A milk white raven, with pale pink tă 
and red legs, is now being exhibited in the Berlin Aquarium, 0 
material augmentation of that admirable institution’s daily recep? 
It received admission to the great central aviary in which scot 
of beautiful birds flutter and chirp and build their nests beets 
parative freedom, but his presence there spread such gen patil 
among the remaining inmates of the vo/iere that it has been 
they as yellow as burnished gold. He was found his 
black brood ofsbrothers and sisters, in a nest built by M5 
nch of 
“lions ” of the German capital—Forest and Stream. per ; 
THE Anatomy or THe Cutroprera—M. A. Robin of E 
cently devoted much study to the anatomy of those PY pa 
ts which are not employed in locomotion, and yee 
neglected by most naturalists, who have mainly i 
