68 ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Taylor, E. C. Five Months in the West Indies. Ibis, 1864, 
pp. 73-17, 157-173. 
The first of these two articles is devoted to Trinidad and 
Venezuela, where the author stayed about three months, in the 
beginning of the year 1863, during which time he made two 
excursions on the mainland of South America, one up the Ori- 
noco to Angostura, the other along the coast to La Guayra and 
thence to Caracas. About 141 species are enumerated as noticed 
in these localities ; one of them is described (by Dr. Sclater) as 
new, under the name of Tyrannus rostratus. The second article 
contains an account of the birds observed in Martinique, Do- 
minica, and Porto Pico, at each of which islands the author 
passed a fortnight. The Ti'ochilida of the two former are iden- 
tical ; but it is much to be regretted that he has not kept the 
lists of the three islands, so far apart as they are situated, 
separate. Each of them has a distinet species of Certhiola) 
that from Dominica is described as C. dominicana. The Pho- 
nipara of Porto Pico is identified with P. omissa — that of the 
more windward islands. This is a singular case of distribution, 
as the Jamaican species has hitherto been taken as identical 
with that of the Virgin group {cf. Ibis, 1864, p. 405). A new 
species of Pitangus Pom Porto Pico is characterized (by Dr. 
Sclater) as P. tayloi'i. 
DESCPIPTIVE ANATOMY. 
Boulton, W. W. Sternum of Little Crake shot in -Cambridge- 
shire. Zoologist, pp. 9285-9289. 
The sternal apparatus of Orex minuta is described, and compared 
with that of C, pratensis and GaUmula chlat'opus. 
Crisp, E. On the Visceral Anatomy of the Screamer (Chauna 
chavariaY^. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, pp. 14-16. 
Two examples, which had died in the Society's Gardens, were 
examined. Dr. Crisp sums up his observations as follows : — 
The important peculiarities of this bird are the great light- 
ness of the skeleton, the presence of air under the skin, the 
great length of the rectum, and the extent of the mucous folds, 
the large calibre of the appendices, and the very slight connexion 
between the hepatic lobes.^^ The author does hot state if he has 
arrived at any conclusion respecting the systematic place of this 
bird. 
Eatio, Victor. Note sur une particularite de Pappareil repro- 
ducteur mMe chez V Accentor alpinus. Pev. et Mag. de Zool. 
1864, pp. 65-67. 
* i. e. Chauna niyricollis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1801, p. 74. 
