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1867, 4to,pp. 16, pi. Separately printed from Nov. Act. Ac. L.-C. Nat. 
Cur. xxxiii. French translation, Arch. N^erland. 1868, pp. 281-295. 
A very excellent treatise on this form (the position of which has long 
been in doubt), including a somewhat minute description and a figure of its 
skeleton. It is shown to stand next to Hcematopus (cf. Ibis, 1867, p. 351). 
CEdicnemus indicus and CE, inornatus (Zool. Fee. iii. p. 110), their descrip- 
tions translated into German. E. von Martens, ,T. f. 0. 1868, p. 69. 
Eejilippia (Zool. Fee. iii. p. 110), the characters of the genus translated 
into German. Id. tom. cit. p. 67. 
Charadrius leschenmdii and C. asiaticus, Pall., both occur in Palestine. H. 
B. Tristram, Ibis, 1868, pp. 323, 332. 
Glareola nordmanni, Fischer, is beautifully figm’ed from a Natal speci- 
men. J. II. Gurney, tom. cit. pp. 254, 266, pi. viii. 
Glareola pratincola, the chick figured. Alb. Marchand, F. Z. 1868, pi. 6. 
Glareola ocidaris is figured. II. Schlogol & F. I\ L. Pollen, Fech. Faun. 
Madag. pi. 38. 
Cvrsorius gallious, its occurrence for the first time in Scotland (7 Oct. 
1868) : F. Walker, Zool. S. S. p. 1459; J. A. II. Brown, tom. cit. p. 1482. 
At Lemgo, not far from Detmold, in Germany (18 Sept. 1868) : F. Meyer, 
Zool. Garten, 1868, pp. 382, 383. 
Otidid^. 
Otis macqueeni, the female possesses the ruff as well as the male. A. 
Hume, Ibis, 1868, p. 241. 
Otis hon and O. australis, the gular pouch of the former described and 
figured, and the latter represented in one of its paroxysms, with the pouch 
enormously distended {cf. Zool. Fee. iv. p. 120). J. Murie, P. Z. S. 1868, 
pp. 471-477, pi. xxxvi. [See “ Anatomy.”] 
GllUIDiE. 
Grm leucogeranus, a veiy full account of its habits, as observed in India, 
with a detailed description of its changes of plumage, and a table of dimen- 
sions : A. Hume, Ibis, 1868, pp. 28-40. In confinement: P. L. Sclater, 
P,Z.S, 1868, p. 626. 
Grus americana in confinement, together with eleven other species of the 
family. G. fraterculua was probably established only on a small specimen 
of G, canadensis. Id. tom. cit. p. 667, 
Grus oinerea, its migration in Nou-Vorpommornem. — Quistorp, J. f. 0. 
1868, pp. 269-261. 
Rhinochetidae. 
Ehinochetus jubatus, from a consideration of its osteology, forms the type 
of a distinct family, belonging to Professor Huxley’s Geranomorphee, and is 
most nearly allied to Psophia and Eunjpyga : W. K. Parker, P. Z. S. 1868, 
p. 2. [The foregoing is only announced as the result of a paper which will 
appear in the ‘ Transactions of the Zoological Society.] Its egg (laid in the 
Zoological Gardens) figured and described ; it very closely resembles that of 
Eurypyga helias {fLocA. Fee. iii. p. HI), which is also figured; but the plate 
