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PODICIPIDID^. 
Podiceps minor. On its correct generic name ; P. L. Sclater, Ibis, 
1874, pp. 98 & 99. 
Spheniscidjd. 
Aptenodytes patagonica is distinct from A. forsteri ; A. Hyatt, P. Host. 
Soc. xvii. p. 94. 
Eudyptula alhisignata., sp. n., New Zealand ; O. Finsch, P. Z. S. 1874, 
pp. 207 & 208. 
Dasyrhamphus herculis [Zool. Rec. vii. p. 64] = D. adelice ; T. Salva- 
dori, Atti Acc. Tor. ix. p. 635. 
STRUTHIONES. 
STRUTHIONIDiE. 
Mivart, St. G. Memoir on the Axial Skeleton of the Struthionidm- 
Preliminary notice. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 607 ; a short abstract of con- 
tents in Pop. Sci. Rev. 1874. 
The general results indicated are ; — that the Emu presents the least 
differentiated type, from which Rhea diverges most on the one hand, and 
Apteryx on the other ; that the resemblance between Dromceus and 
Casuarius is exceedingly close ; and that the axial skeleton of Dinornis is 
intermediate between that of Casuarius and Apteryx^ its affinities, how- 
ever, to the existing New Zealand forms very decidedly predominating. 
Struthio camelus. A lengthened and minute description of the axial 
skeleton ; St. G. Mivart, Tr. Z. S. viii. pp. 385-451, figs. 1-79. In domes- 
ticity ; S. Wilson, P. R. Soc. Tasm. ii. pp. 205-232 : R. Boulart, Bull. 
Soc. Acclim. (3) i. p. 433. 
Dromceus, sp. ? (foss.). The distal end of the right tibia of a Stru- 
thionous bird discovered in the London Clay beds, bears a likeness to that 
of Dromceus novcediollandice. In size and other characteristics it is inter- 
mediate between the Emu and Apteryx. G. Seeley, Pop. Sci. Rev. 1874, 
p. 437. 
Struthiolithus cJiersonensis, g. & sp. nn. (foss.) A. Brandt, Bull. 
P4tersb. xviii. p. 158 ; translated. Ibis, 1874, pp. 4-7. 
Casuariidje. 
Sclater, P. L. On the Distribution of the species of Cassowaries. 
Rep. Br. Ass. 1874, p. 138. 
Seven species are tabulated, and remiarks as to their geographical 
range given. Casuarius picticollis, sp. n., from New Guinea^ is shortly 
referred to. 
Casuarius Jcaupi, Sclater [Zool. Rec. ix. p. 59], nec Rosenb., is renamed 
westermamii ] P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1874, pp. 247 & 248. 
Casuarius australis in Queensland ; E. P. Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1874, 
p. 325. 
