STEGANOPODES — ANSERES. 
Aves 4il 
Plotus anhinga: on a living example, apparently in perfect health, 
casting up the epithelial lining of the gizzard after the fashion already 
observed in the Bucerotidce \ A. D. Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 247, fol- 
lowed by note from W. A. Forbes, tom. cit. p. 248, confirming the above. 
Plotus levaillanti : exhibition of skins and eggs obtained on the Lake 
of Antioch, Syria; H. B. Tristram, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 82G. 
HEEODIONES. 
Ardeidjs. 
Anastomus madagascar crisis , sp. n., distinguished from A. lamelliger ; 
A. Milno-Ed wards, C. R. xci. p. 1037, Madagascar. 
Ardea garzetta obtained in Yorkshire in January ; R. P. Harper, Zool. 
1881, p. 213. 
Butio kutteri, sp. n., J. Cabanis, J. f. 0. 1881, p. 425, Philippine islands. 
PLATAIiiEIDiE. 
Ibis religiosa: its occurrence on 21st Oct. 1880 in Pommerania ; v. Ho- 
meyer, Orn. Centralbl. 1881, p. 4. 
Plegadisfalcinellus : exhibition of 41 ^ obtained in Hampshire ; P. L. 
Sclater, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 827. 
ODONTOGLOSS^. 
PnCENICOPTERIDiE. 
Phoenicopterus antiquorum ; on its nesting in the Lake of Tunis ; 
H. Johnston, Ibis, 1881, p. 173. 
ANSERES. 
Anatid^. 
Anas wyviUiana figured, P. L. Sclater, Voy. ‘Challenger,’ Zool. ii. 
pt. viii. Avcs, pi. xxii. 
Bernicla ruficollis obtained on the coast of Holland ; J. H. Gurney, 
Jr., Ibis, 1881, p. 495. In Finland; J. A. Palmen, Med. Soc. Fenn. vii. 
p. 144. 
Branta nigricans : on its habits in Alaska ; E. W. Nelson, Bull. Nutt. 
Orn. Club, vi. pp. 131-138. 
Fuligula rujina obtained for the first time in North America (Long 
Island Sound ?) ; R. Ridgway, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. iv. p. 22; at Tralee, 
Kerry, apparently its first recorded occurrence in Ireland : R. Payne 
Gallewey, Zool. 1881, p. 143 ; exhibited, A. G. More, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 409. 
Mergus australis : exhibition of a skin of this rare species from the 
Auckland Islands; P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 1. 
Qjjdemia ^rerspicillata ; on a specimen obtained in Orkney, with 
description of its trachea as compared with that of CE.fasca\ H. Lang- 
ton, Zool. 1881, p. 59. 
