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glacialisj Liim.^ as its type; Thalassoicd (lege Thalassoeca) y witli 
P. glacialioideSy A. Smith ; and Ossifraga, containing only P. 
gigantea, Gmel. The jiEstrelatece are composed of three genera : — 
^strelata, with P. JuBsitataj Kuhl, as its type j Pagodrorriay con- 
taining only P.nwttj Gmel.; and Pajo/ioWj restricted to P.capensis: 
The PrionecB also are divided into three genera : — Halobcena, con^ 
taining only P. carulea, Gmel. ; PseudoprioUy gen. nov.^ founded 
on P. turtur, Ruhl ; and Prion, restricted to P. vittata, Gmel. 
The DiomedeincB form a single genus, with Diomedea eoculans, 
Linn., as its type, as do the HalodromincB, the generic name used 
being Petecanoides, with P. urinatrioc, Gmel., for the^typical 
species. To this disposition of the whole family follow first a 
supplement, with additions and corrections, and next a biblio- 
graphical appendix. 
JPterodroma carihbcea is the name given to the Blue-Mountain Duck ” of 
Jamaica, first mentioned by Mr. Qosse (B. Jam. p. 437), but now first de- 
scribed. A. Carte, P. Z. S. 1866, pp. 93, 94, pi. x. (Jig. mala). lieferred 
to the genus E. Coues, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1866, pp. 159, 171. 
Diomedea leptorhyncha is doubtfully described as a species, froRi a skull 
in the Smithsonian Museum, which is considerably narrower and smaller 
in all its dimensions than that of D. hrachyurOf. E. Coues, yt sujn'd, 
pp. 178-187. 
Diomedea gilliana is described as a new species froip an unknown locality, 
belonging to the same gTOup as D. melanophrys, and like that species in 
colour except oir the under surface, but with the bill more nearly approaching 
that of D. cidminata. Idem, ut supra, pp. 181, 182. 
Diomedea exidans and D. fuliyinosa, notes on them, with reference to 
Captain Hutton’s observations (Zool. Becord, ii. pp. 56, 136). IJowf\^’d 
Saunders, Ibis, 1866, pp. 124-126. Notes on their means of flight and 
habits. B. T. Lowne, Zoologist, S. S. pp. 114-118. Suggestion as to the 
manner in which the young are supported while deserted by their parents. 
0. J. Andersson, Ibis, 1866, p. 324. 
Proeellaria ylacialis is figured. C. J. Sundevall, Sv. Fogl. pi. Ixxix, fig. 4. 
Nectris an account of its habits reprinted fropi Mr, (Mould’s 
^Handbook of the Birds of Australia’ (ii. pp. 459-464), which w^s partly 
extracted from Mr. Elwes’s paper in ^ The Ibis ’ (1859, pp. 397-399), though 
the bird is there called Puffitips obseurus. Zoologist, S. S, pp. 208-211. 
Pelicanid^e. 
Cunningham, R. O. On the Solan Goose or Gannot {Sula 
^assma, Linn.). Ibis, 1866, pp. 1-23, pi. i. 
A very C(irefully executed monograph of this species, the 
bibliography of which is given at a great lengtlr. The nestling is 
figm-ed. 
■ Phalacrocorax yraculm, notes on its natural history, changes of plumage, 
and habits in confinement. II. Blake-Knox, Zoologist, S, S. pp, 243-257, 
328^333. 
Phalacrocorax sulcirostris, head figured. S. Biggies, Orn. Austral, part ix. 
