THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Aves 29 
[Shupeldt, R. W,] Osteology of Lanius ludovicianus excubitorides. 
Tom. cit. pp. 351-359, pi. xiv. 
This is practically an essay on the osteology of the typical Laniidce. 
. On the Ossicle of the Antibrachium as found in some of the North 
American Falconidce. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi. pp. 197-203. 
The author states that the very existence of this bone appears to have 
been overlooked by Owen, Morse, Huxley, and, naturally, by minor 
naturalists ; so far, it has only been discovered in the Falconidm, but not 
in the American Strigidce. 
— * — . Notes on a few of the Diseases and Injuries in Birds. Am. Nat. 
1881, pp. 283-285. 
. The Claw on the Index Digit of the Cathartidce. Tom. cit. pp. 
906-908. 
The author considers that his discovery of a claw at the end of the first 
finger of Catharista atrata is novel, and that it is an important distinction 
between the Old and New World Vultures. [Nitzsch appears to have 
known of this claw, and of its existence in the vultures of both hemi- 
spheres.] 
Sim, G. Occurrence of Rare Birds. Scot. Nat. vi. p. 13. 
Numenius borealis, Ibis falcinellus, Upupa epops, and Sylvia curruca 
are recorded ; the last rare so far north as Aberdeen. 
Slater, H. H. The Island of Rodriguez and its Fauna. Yorksh. Nat. vii. 
For remarks on its 24 species of existing Birds, see pp. 4 & 5 : for the 
extinct ones, see pp. 5, 6, 25 & 26. 
Smith, Cecil. Remarks on the Breeding of certain Waterfowl in Con- 
finement. Zool. 1881, pp. 446-451. 
These observations show that owing to the freedom with which CJiena- 
lopex cegy plica and other species breed, the unpinioned young escape, 
even in some numbers, and are then supposed to be migrants to this 
country. 
Stearns, W. A., & Coues, E. New England Bird Life, being a Manual 
of New-England Ornithology. Part i. Oscines. Boston : 1881, 8vo. 
Stejneger, L. Zweiter Beitrag zur Ornithologie Madagascar’s. N. Mag. 
Naturvid. xxvi. pp. 1-11. 
See also Lanius major \^Laniidai\. 
SuNDMAN, G. 'Einska Fogelagg. Med Text af J. A. Palmen [c/. Zool. 
Rec. xvi. Aves, p. 34]. Pts. iii.-iv. Helsingfors : 1881, folio. 
Taczanowski, L. Bericht fiber die Ornithologische Fauna der Insel 
Askold. J. f. O. 1881, pp. 177-188. 
A list, with the notes of collector M. Jankowski, on 41 species not 
recorded from the Island of Askold by H. Bolau. \^Cf. Zool. Rec. xvii. 
Aves, p. 4.] 
& Stolzmann, j. See Loddigesia mirabilis Trochilidce], 
