AVES, 
91 
TiNAMIDA!. 
Parker_, W. K, On the Osteology of Gallinaceous Birds and 
Tinamous. (See under heading Descriptive Anatomy/^) 
ORALLY. 
RaLLIDA5. 
l^-p1U/rio maHinica (?). The so-called “ Carpenter Coot ” has generally 
been considered to be the young of this species, but it is stated that the 
nestlings are quite different. W. T. March, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1864, p. 69. 
Porzana maruetta (with young), P. minuta and P. pygmeea are figured. 
J. Gould, B. Qrt. Br. part vi. 
ScOLOPACIDiE. 
ScHLEGEL, H. Museum dMlistoire Naturelle des Pays-bas. 5™® 
et 6"’® Livraisons. Scolopaces. Leyde, 1864. Royal 8vo, 
pp. 102, 
This portion of the Catalogue of the Leyden Museum being 
still unfinished, it is only needful for us here to say that the 
parts published contain the genera Scolopax and GallinagOy 
Rhynchaea, Prosobonia, Limosa, Tringa, Phalaropm, Totanus, 
ActitiSj and Numenius. We reserve fof the completion of the 
group further remarks upon it. Compelled as we are in some 
cases to differ widely from Professor SchlegePs opinions, it is 
right for us to mention the great care with which his most 
useful catalogues are drawn up, and to acknowledge that it is, 
in the present state of our science, far better to reduce than to 
multiply the number of genera and species, when this can be 
safely done. 
CoiNDE, J. L. Note pour servir h Phistoire des Oisemix insec- 
tivores. Rev. Zool. 1864, pp. 5, 6. 
The communication records some cursory observations on the diet of a 
bird belonging a la famille des ^chassiers riverains du genre chevalier,” 
The species is not determined. 
Gatlindgo mcgala (Ibis, 1861, p. 343) from China and Formosa tallies well 
with the description of G. solitaria from Japan, and may be identical with it. 
R. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1864, p. 370. 
Ereunetes ocddentalis is described as a new species from the west coast of 
North America, differing from E. pusillus in the greater amount and bright- 
ness of the chestnut on the upper parts, but most conspicuously in the more 
decided spotting of the breast and sides. The bill also appears on an average 
to be longer, and the tarsi and toes are jet-black. E. mauri from Cuba agrees 
precisely with E. pusillus. G. N. Lawrence, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1864, pp. 
107, 108. 
Micropalayna tachsanowshii is identical with Macrorhamphus semipalmatus. 
T. C. Jerdon, B. India, iii. p. 680. 
Numenius rufescens is figured. J. Gould, B. As. part xvi. 
