AVES. 
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Tinamid^. 
Rhynchotis rufescms bred in 18G7 in the Zoological Gardens. Sixteen or 
more young birds were hatched, and reared. Incubation was performed ex- 
clusively by the male [a Stmthioiis-Jiko character, confirming the views of 
Mr. Parker and Prof. Huxley (Zool. Rec. iii. p. 108, iv. p. 47) as to the affi- 
nity of the Tinamido} (^Dromceognathcs^ with the Struthiones (^Rat{Ue)~\. The 
eggs and young are described and (the former badly) figured. A. D. Bart- 
lett, P. Z. S. 18G8, pp. 114, 115, pi. xii. 
Tinamus franlzU is a now species from Costa Rica, about the size of T. ro- 
hustus, but darker and dillerent in colouring, having a rufous throat, mottled 
primaries, and strikingly longer toes. G. N. Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. IL 
New York, 18G8, pp. 140, 141. 
Tinamus robustus, Crypturm sallcei, C, houcardi, and C. meserythrm are 
figured. P. L. Sclater & 0. Salvin, Ex. Orn. pis. xliv.-xlvii. 
OpiSTIIOCOMIDiE. 
Opisthocomus cristatus^ its osteology most carefully described, with illus- 
trative woodcuts, and its affinities considered. It is regarded as the type 
and sole member of a group called Ileteromorphcdf coordinate with the Alec- 
toromorphce^ IHeroclomorplice, and Turnicimorphoi. T. II. Huxley, P. Z. S. 
1868, pp. 304-311, figures. 
GRALLAE. 
IlALLIDiE. 
Frauenfeld, Georg von. Neue aufgefundene Abbildung des Dronte 
imd eines zweiten kurzfliigeli gen Vogels, wahrscheinlich diQS Poule rmige 
au bee de Becasse der Maskarenen, u. s. w. Wien : 1868. Imp. fol. pp. 17, 
pis. 4. 
The first of the pictures described we have already mentioned {suprhf 
pp. 97, 98). The second is far more valuable, as it probably represents a form 
entirely extinct and only very imperfectly known through the rude figures 
and slight notices given by old voyagers. This species the author calls 
Aphanapteryx impcrialis ; and an excellent copy of the picture is given. It 
was of a dusky rust-colour, with a somewhat long, curved and trenchant 
bill, stout legs, wings (if any) quite useless for flight, and no tail. 
This discovery is a most interesting one, particularly when it is taken in 
connexion with the fact that among the bones found in the Mare auxSonges 
in Mauritius (Zool. Rec. ii. p. 124, iii. p. 104) are some, collected by Mr. Ed- 
ward Newton, which have been identified as those of this bird (Ibis, 1868, 
pp. 481, 482) by M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, who, however, considers the 
species to have been already named by Prof. Schlegel (Versl. en Meded. K. 
Akad. Amsterd. ii. p. 356) Bidus brocejeii, but M. Milne-Edwards agrees 
with Herr von Frauenfeld in referring it to the family Rallida. \_Cf. F. 0. 
Noll, Zool. Garten, 1868, p. 282 : A. Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sc. Nat. Zool. 6e 
s6r. X. pp. 326-346 ; Ibis, 1869, pp. 256-276.] 
Sclater, P. L., & Salvin, O. Synopsis of the American Rallidce. Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1868, pp. 442-470, pi. xxxv. 
One of the best monographs known to us, surpassing (and this is saying 
