50 Aves. 
AYES. 
OriDiDii^:. 
Otis canicollis, sp. n., A. Reichenow, Orn. Centralbl. 1881, p. 79, and 
J. f. 0. 1881, p. 334, Berdera, E. Africa. 0. tetrax: two specimens 
obtained in North Devon ; G. F. Mathew, Zool. 1881, p. 59. 0. tarda: 
an account of its gradual extinction on the Yorkshire Wolds; W. E. 
Clark, Handbk. Yertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire, pp. 65-68. O.macqueeni 
obtained in Livonia ; 0. v. Loewis, Zool. Gart. 1881, p. 156. 
LIMICOL^. 
Parridjj. 
See Forbes, W. A., for Anatomy. 
Parra violacea^ sp. n., 0. B. Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi. p. 130, 
Haiti. 
Charadriid^. 
^gialitis alexandrinus [AE. cantianus (Lath.)] obtained in Norway ; 
R. Collett, Forh. Selsk. Chr. 1881, No. 10 [sep. copy]. 
Charadrius sheppardianus, sp. n. (fossil) ; E. D. Cope, Bull. U. S. Geol. 
Surv. vi. pp. 83-85, Amyzon shales of Colorado, a Tertiary deposit. 
Charadrius morinellus : details of its nesting in the Grampians ; D. 
Bruce, Macmillan’s Mag. 1881, pp. 347- 352. 
Dramas ardeola : exhibition of its eggs, which are pure white ; H. 
Saunders, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 259 [cf, Zool. Rec. xvi. Aves^ p. 60]. 
Sarciophorus latifrons^ sp. .n., distinguished from S pileatus\ A. 
Reichenow, Orn. Centralbl. 1881, p. 79, and J. f. 0. 1881, p. 334, Berdera, 
E. Africa. 
ScOLOPACIDiG. 
Gallinago ccdestis : [i.e.. Common Snipe] on the “ humming *’ of this 
species ; J. E. Harting, Zool. 1881, pp. 121-131 ; — Altum, Orn. Cen- 
tralbl. 1881, p. 10. Exhibition of the melanoid variety often called G. 
sabinii, shot in Hampshire; R. B. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 409. 
Tringa temmincki and T. minuta: on their breeding in Norway; R. 
Collett, J. f. 0. 1881, pp. 323-332 ; on the breeding of T. minuta in 
the Kola Peninsula ; E. Rae, “ White Sea.Peninsula,” pp. 85-87. 
GAVIiB. 
Larid^. 
Stercorarius pomatorrhinus and other Skuas in unusual numbers on the 
coasts of Scotland ; J. J. Dalgleish, P. N. H. Soc. Glasg. iv. pt. ii. 
pp. 274-280. 
Xema sabinii obtained near Dublin; A. G. More, Zool. 1881, p. 472. 
