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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
what; the paper noticed last year (ZooL Eecoi^dj i, p. ^6) did fpy 
the eastern^ and is of exactly the same description, 
ScLATER, P. Ii. On two rare Species of the American gcpus 
Dendrceca. Iliisj 1865, pp. 87-89. [Error corrected^ op. 
dt. p. 237]. 
Description of a New Accipitrine Bird from Cost^ Rica. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, pp. 429, 430, pi. xxiv. 
Named Leucopternis princeps. 
ANATOMY AND PHYSIODODY, 
Bianconi, G. G. Studi del Tarso-metatarso degli Uccelli ed in 
particolare su quello del? Mpyornis maximum. Continua- 
zione e fine. Mem. Accad. Scienze di Bologna, 2 ser. tom. 
V. (12 Jan. 1865), pp. 31-112, tabb. v.-xiv. 
This is the conclusion of a paper * by the author in the same 
journal for 1863 (tom. hi. pp. 173-199, tabb. i.-iv.). In the 
former part Pyof. Bianconi examined the structure of the tarso- 
metatarsus in the Scansores and Grallai. In the present memoir 
the same bone in tlie Gallince, Struthiones, AccipltreSj Passeres, 
Ansen'eSy and finally in jEpyomis moximus (of which it is, with 
the egg, the sole relic) is taken into consideration. lie at 
length arrives at the conclusion that this last-named species 
was a Vulture, and very nearly allied to the Condor [Sarcorham^ 
pirns gi'yphus). The plates represent the tarso-metatarsus of 
the following birds : — Meleagris gallopavo, Tetrao urogallus, 
Perdix cinerea, Columba turtur, Corvus frugilegus, Cypselus apus, 
Struthio cameluSy Rhea amer\cg>na, Aquila chrysaetuSj Asio otus, 
Barcorhamphus gryphus, S. papa, Gypaetus harhatus,' Golymhys 
arcticus, Podiceps, sp.. Anas boschas, Clangula glaucion, Pelepa^ 
71US, ^^.,Phalacrocorax carbo, Hydrochelidon nigra, 2 in.di^pyornis. 
A brief extract from this paper is contained in Ann. des Sci. Natu- 
relles, hi. pp. 59, 60, and an abstract of it in Bev. Zool. 1865, 
pp. 47-49. \cf. P. Z. S, 1865, p. 196, and Ann. & Mag. N. H. 
3rd ser, xvi. p. 59.) 
Crisp, E. On the Anatomy and Habits of the Water-Ousel 
[Cinclus aquaticus). Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, pp. 49-52. 
The first object of the author is to ascertain by what means 
the bird is enabled to dive. This, he thinks, is accounted for by 
the shortness of the wing and great development of its muscles. 
The caudal muscles also are much developed. The visceral 
anatomy differs very little proportionately from that of other 
* The series of articles in connexion with the subject has its beginning in 
the Memoirs of the Bologna Academy several years ago, and is continued 
in those for 1862, pp. 3-64 
