16 Aves. 
AVES. 
[Layard, E. L. & E. L. C.] Letter : on some birds and eggs obtained 
in New Caledonia, and in Norfolk Island ; tom. cit. p. 171. 
Liebe, K. T. Ornitliologische Notizen, V. Die Witterung des Fruh- 
jahres 1881. Orn. Centralb. 1881, pp. 113-117. 
Ltlpord [Lord]. Ornithological Notes from Northamptonshire ; Zool. 
1881, pp. 24 & 25, 61. 
Littleboy, J. E. Notes on Birds observed [in Hertfordshire] in 1879 
(pp. 70-80) ; in 1880, and first 3 months of 1881 (pp. 239-250). 
Tr. Herts. N. H. Soc. i. 
. Agelceus ;phceniceu8 \_Icterid(c\. 
Liversidge, — . An Analysis of Moa Eggshell. Tr. N. Z. Inst. xiii. 
p. 225. 
Loewis, 0. v. See Tetraonuhe, and Otis macqueeni [Otididai']. 
Lorenz, Ludwig v. See Stringops hahroptilus^ Nestor notahilis 
[Psittaci], 
Macoun, John. Report of Exploration [in the Souris River Valley, 
north of Dakota and Montana] Rep. of Dep. of Interior, Ottawa, 
1881 ? 8vo, pp. 48. [Not seen by the Recorder; Cf. Bull. Nutt. Orn. 
Club, 1882, p. 113]. 
Madarasz, J. Systematische Aufzahlung d. Vogel Ungarns, nebst 
Angabe der Literatur. Budapest : 1881, 8vo, pp. 46. 
[Not seen by the Recorder. See Zool. Anz. 1881, p. 491, where 345 
species are said to be noticed.] 
. See also Carduelis IFringilUdce,'] 
Marciiand, a. Notes sur les Poussins des Oiseaux d’Europe. R. Z. (3) 
vii- 1879 [dated], pis. iv.-vi. [Received in 1881, and all that has 
been seen by Recorder up to June 1882.] 
Only plates, of little or no scientific value : the species are Stercorarius 
catarrhactes, Pelidna cinclus^ Scolopax majo)\ the text of which has 
already appeared [cf. Zool. Rec. xvii. Aves, p. 14]. 
Marschall, a. F. V., & Pelzeln, A. v. Ornis Vindobonensis : die 
Vogeluelt Wien’s und seiner Umgebuugen, mit einem Anhang : die 
Vogel des Neusiedler See’s. Vienna [dated 1882 ; published, and 
seen by Recorder in 1881], 8vo, pp. 192 & Map. 
Marsh, O. C. Discovery of a Fossil Bird in the Jurassic of Wyoming. 
Ann. N. H. (5) vii. p. 488, and Am. J. Sci. (3) xxi. p. 341. 
Various remains, some of them sufficiently characteristic for determi- 
nation, have enabled the author to describe Laopteryx prisons, g. & sp. n. 
[Odontornithes']. 
. Jurassic Birds and their Allies. Ann. N. H. (5) viii. pp. 
452-455; Am. J. Sci. (3) xxii. pp. 337-340; & Geol. Mag. 1881, 
pp. 485-487. Also abstract in Rep. Brit. Ass. 1881, p. 661. 
The author gives the results of his examination of the three known 
specimens of Archceopteryx, and gives details of their more important 
characters. The nearest allies to Birds are, he considers, the Dinosaurian 
Reptiles. 
