Avfes. 
Ill 
CicoNiiDit:. 
Mycteria australis is figured. S. Diggles, Orn. Austral, part y.* 
PALAMEDEIDiE*. 
Chaima nigncollis (cf. Zool. Record, i. p. 93) is identical with C. dei^iana^ 
P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1866, pp. 369, 370. The locality for the original’ 
specimen of the latter was not Guatemala, but no doubt New Granada. 
T. J. Moore, op. cit. pp. 368, 369. Inhabits Trinidad, W. Huggins, cit, 
p. 417. 
Avis inceiItas sedis. 
Burypyga helias, its eggs and young described, and the latter, which much 
resembles those of Plovers or Snipes, figured. The nearest ally of the bird is 
JRJiinochetus as previously (P. Z. S. 1862, p. 218) stated. A. D. Bartlett^ 
P. Z. S. 1866, pp. 76-78, pi. ix. fig. 1. 
ANSERES. 
ANATIDiE. 
ScHLEGEL., PI. Museum cVHistoire Naturelle cles Pays-ilas. 
8me Livraison. Anseres. Leyde : 1866. jRoyal 8vo} 
pp. 108; 
This portion of the work is to include the genera Mergus^ 
Biziurd, Fuligula, AnaSy Cygnus, Dendrocygnay AnseVy and 
PhoenicopteruSy the first six of which are completed; The Anntid<}e 
having niet with tnuch more attention at the haiids of authors 
than many of the ether groups of which Prof. Schlegel has treated; 
their synonymy is in a Ifess confused state. There is cohse-: 
qufenlly less Uovelty iii his detertniuatioUs of theh’ Species> ahd 
we do not think it necessary here to gb into further details rei 
specting this conscientious performance. 
Sclater, P. L. Additional notes on the Anatidcs of the Genera 
Dendrocygna and Tadorna. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, pp. 148- 
150. 
The papers to which these remarks are supplementary were noticed in our 
first volume (p. 94). Dendrocygna vagans and D. futva have now been seen 
by the author, and, with D. major, their peculiar distribution in the tropics 
is pointed out. Tadorna variegata has bred in the Society’s Gardens. 
Leptotarsus eytoni captured at Port Macquarie, New South Wales. G; 
Bennett, P. Z. S. 1866, pp. 4l7, 418. 
Cereopsis novce-hollandice, observations on it in confinement. C. de St. 
Gerlach, Zoolog. Garten, 1866, pp. 170-173. Figured, S. Higgles, Oth. 
Austral, part ix. 
Chen alhatus is figured. H. G. Elliot, B. N. Am. part ii. 
Sarcidiornis africana is recommended for acclimatization in Reunion; Fi 
* We have become quite convinced of the truth of Mr. Parker’s opinion 
(Zooi. Record, i. p. 93) as to the systematic position of this family, and,’ 
should we have occasion to mention it next year, we shall place it next to 
Anatid<^. 
