G A LLIN^ ALECTORID ES . 
Aves 49 
Megapodiid^. 
E. OusTALET, Ann. Sc. Nat. (6) x. Art. 5, pp. 60, pis. xx.-xxii., vol. ix. 
Art. 2, pp. 182, pis. ii. & iii., contributes an important Monograph. The 
systematic relationship of the Megapodiidoi is discussed at length, and 
the structural anatomy is examined in detail and illustrated. Four 
genera, Megacephalon (1 species), Lipoa (1 species), Talegallus (7 species), 
Megapodius (19 species), are admitted, and the habits of each species 
fully described. Plates of skeleton of Megacephalon maleo, Megapodius 
duperreyi, coloured figures of Talegallus bruijni, and of the heads of the 
latter and 2 other species are given. 
Megapodius eremita figured; P. L. Sclater, Voy. ‘ Challenger,’ Zool. ii. 
pt. viii. Aves^ pi. xi. Megapodius hrasieri : remarks on, correcting an 
erroneous statement by E. P. Pamsay ; J. Brazier, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 
vi pp. 150-154. / 
OPISTHOCOMI. 
OPISTHOCOMIDiE. 
Opisthocomus cristatus : six eggs exhibited, obtained at Obidos, Ama- 
zons, are essentially Ralline in general character ; P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 
1881, p. 259. Remarks on its egg and its systematic position : W. V* 
Nathusius, J. f. 0. 1881, pp. 334-336. 
HEMIPODIIDiE. 
See Kutteu. 
FULICARIJE. 
EaLLID2E. 
Hypotamidia suturata (Salvadori, MS.), sp. n., P. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1880, 
p. 310, Salwatti. [See Zool. Rec. xvii. p. 46.] 
Rallina {Euryzond) zona\tr\ventris^ sp. n., J. Cabanis, J. f. O. 1881, 
p. 425, Malacca. 
ALECTORIDES. 
GllUIDiE. 
In * A Natural History of the Cranes : a Monograph by the late 
Edward Blyth, enlarged and reprinted with illustrations by W. B. 
Tegetmeier,’ London 1881, 8vo, pp. 92; 15 species are recognized; 
the synonymy of several species is amended ; figures are given of the 
heads of Grus viridirostris^ G. communis, G. americana, G. monachus : 
and full figures of G. leucauchen and G- nigricollis (the latter after 
Prjevalsky) — the whole forming a very complete Monograph. 
Cariamid;e. 
Cariama cristata: exhibition of an egg laid in the Jardin des Plantes,. 
Paris ; A. Newton, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 1. 
1881. [voL. xvni.] B 6 
