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following vertebre represents a paradiapophysis and the head 
of the rib a capitulo-tuberculum. I believe that the diapophysis 
consists of diapophysis only, and that the head of the rib repre- 
sents only the tuberculum, thecapitulum being distinct but liga- 
mentous, 
The living Sphenodon shows therefore in principle the same 
condition of the rib-articulation as the Permian Pelycosauria. 
But there are still other Sauropsida which have some of the ribs 
connected with the zztercentrum. Inall Crocodilia and Dinosauria 
the first rib of the atlas is attached to the intercentrum between 
the occipital condyle and the atlas. The same condition can be 
found in birds, where this first rib has become ligamentous, and 
probably in all Sauropsida with ribs connected with the Atlas. 
I do not doubt that the Ornithosauria show the same condition, 
since L. v. Ammon? has shown that the cervical ribs of Rham- 
Phorhynchus are like those of the crocodile.—Dr. G. Baur, Yale 
College Museum, New Haven, Ci, Sept. 19, 1886. 
Curtown. I suppose this is not an unusual occurrence, but as the 
numbers were so great I thought possibly you would like to make 
a note of it. aes 
Following is the list of the birds killed by the electric light 
towers: Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla), red-breasted grosbeak (Go- 
maphea ludoviciana), indigo bird (Cyanospiza cyanea), black and 
yellow warbler (Dendreca maculosa), house-wren (Troglodytes 
@don), Maryland yellow-throat (Geothlypis trichas), Acadian fly- 
catcher (Empidonax acadicus), scarlet tanager (Pyranga rubra) 
Cat-bird (Galeoscoptes carolinensis). olive-backed thrush (Turdus 
Swainsoni)—E, A. Gastman, Decatur, Ill., Sept. 29, 1886. 
Zootocicat News.—General—M. Zarondnoi (Bull. Mosc. Soc. 
Nat. enumerates 184 species of birds in the Trans-Caspian fauna. 
He divides the district into three sub-regions, (1) the Kara-Kum 
desert, (2) the Akhal-Tekke oasis, (3) the mountains. The first 
istrict has a pretty well furnished flora, spite of its immense 
; *The same condition exists in the Lacertilia, Pythonomorpha, and Ophidia. 
+ “Ammon L. v, Ueber das in der Sammlung des Regensburger naturwissenschaft- 
chen Vereins auf bewahrte Skelett einer langschwaenzigen Flugeidechse Rhamphor- 
bynchus longicaudatus, C tenzblatt d turwi haitlich. Vereinsin Re- 
Sensburg, 38 Jahrgang, 1884, p. 155. 
