ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY, OOLOGY. 
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Parker, W. K. On the Development of the Skull in the Genus 
T'urdus. Tom. cit. pp. 102-107, pis. vhi.-x. 
( All these papers were read in 1872, and though the first only was published 
in that year, it is a matter of convenience to enter them together, the more 
so since the last is really the oldest in date. The author throughout shows 
his accustomed love of work and power of description, but, as usual, is chary 
of deductions. " However, in the first paper, he declares Corvus to be “ the 
great subrational chief of the whole kingdom of the birds; ” and while adopt- 
ing generally the views of Prof. Huxley (Zool. Rec. iii. p. 46, iv. p. 34), terms 
his Celcomorphfp, ( — Pici) Scmrotjnntha!. In the second ho admits the rela- 
tionship of Carmma 1o the Gruidez! and Gallina:, but places it as the lowest 
extant form of Accipitres, j ■ 
ScLATER, P. L. Observations on the Systematic Position of the 
Genera Peltops, Eurylamus, and Todus. [See TodidcBj Eu- 
ryl(jemid(S, Muscicapida,] 
/ Stolker, C. Beitragc zur Pathologic der Vogel, 
pp. 1-19. 
OOLOGY. 
J. f. 0. 1872, 
Buckley, Henry. On some new or rare Birds’ Eggs. P. Z. S. 
1872, pp. 625,626. 
' Notices those of Ealco polyayrus, Elanoides furcatus, Ictinia mississip- 
piensi^. 
^Heuglin, M. T. von. Ornithologie Nordost-Afrika’s, u. s. w. 
[Sec Ethiopian Region.”] 
(" Plates xlii. and xliii. contain figures of the eggs of Textor alcetoj Ilyplian- 
immis hahessimea, H. atriyidmis^ H. giterini, H. vitellina^ and H. galhida, 
Psalidoprocne pristoptera, Hh’undo oPhiopicayNectarinia metallica, Cisticola cur- 
sitans, Drymoeca gracilis^ Caprimtdgus isahellinusj Cercofzdchas erythroptera, 
Argya acacizs, Saxicola isahellina^ Acrocephalus stentorius, Aedon galactodcs, 
and Pycnonotus arsinoe. j 
^ Holtz, L. Ueber Molobrus-Eier, zu Cantagallo in Brasilien von 
Herrn C. Euler gesammelt. J. f. O. 1872, pp. 193-201. 
( Describes the variations in the eggs of Molohrtis.i 
La YARD, E. L. [See Walden, Viscount.] 
^Nathusius, W. von. Ueber der innereii Ban ciniger Gaiisc- 
Eicr rait doppcltcm Hotter, nebst cinigen wcitcrcn Bcmcr- 
kungen iiber Species-Unterscheide bei Eierschalen. J.f.O. 
1872, pp. 321-332, tab.ii. 
^ In continuation of former papers (Zool. Rec. viii. p. 48). ;] 
Potts, T. H. On the Birds of New Zealand. — Part III. [See 
^ ^'Australian Region.”] 
The nest of Gcriliiparvs novce-zdandizc and that of Creadion canmculatus 
figured (pi. xvii.). / 
