AVES. 
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fiques/ 6me Ann^e^l869, the part relating to Birds in nos. 37 
(14Ang.),38 (21 Ang.), 41 (11 Sept.), 44 (2 Oct), pp. 578- 
583, 601-604, 646-656, 700-704. 
This admirable paper shows how the author by most inge- 
nious contrivances caused various birds to record the movements 
of their wings so as to exhibit the actual direction and duration 
of the strokes. To give an abstract of it within our present 
limits is impossible, and all interested in the subject must refer 
to the paper itself. \_Cf. Ibis, 1870, pp. 266-268.] 
Milne -Edwards, A. Rcchcrches Anatomiques et Paleontolo- 
giques pour servir h Thistoire des Oiseaux Eossiles de la 
France. Livr. 26-30 *. Paris : 1869. 4to, plates. 
The progress made in this great work during the past year 
has not been quite so rapid as before. Having formerly noticed 
it at some length (Zool. Rec. iv. pp. 49, 50, v. p. 36), we have 
only now to remark that, pursuing the same method as hitherto, 
the author concludes his account of the Ardeides and then 
of the ^^Rallides^^ (Rallidce), after which he begins the consi- 
deration of the Gallinaces,^^ in the middle of which the work 
at present breaks off. Of Rallida, 8 new species are described, 
6 of which are from Miocene beds, and the remaining 2, one of 
them being the type of a new genus, from the Eocene. Many 
remains of Gallinaces^^ and some of Colombides’^ are figured ; 
and the fossil species will be found named in our special part 
under Columbidce, Phasianidce, Tetraonida, and Pteroclidce ; but 
as yet the letterpress has not reached them. 
. Oiseaux Fossiles. Diet. Univers. d^hist. nat. Deuxieme 
edition, ix. pp. 671-719. Paris: May 1869. 8vo. 
A general account of Fossil Ornithology so far as the subject 
is yet known, beginning with the ornithichnites of the Trias, 
proceeding to the bird of the Jura formation — ArchaopteryXf 
those of the Cretaceous series, of the Tertiary, including the 
Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene periods, and so on to the species 
but recently extinct. As may be expected from the author’s 
intimate acquaintance with his subject, even to the most minute 
details, this treatise is extremely well executed. 
Newton, Alfred. The Strickland Collection in the University 
of Cambridge. Ibis, 1869, pp. 320-324, pi. ix. 
A short notice of the collection of the late Hugh Edwin 
Strickland, recently presented by his widow to the University of 
Cambridge and now in its Museum, where it is lodged in cabi- 
nets having their drawers made on the “interchangeable ” prin- 
ciple first suggested by Mr. Salvin. The collection contains 
5802 specimens, referable to 3031 species. Occasion is taken to 
* Sheets 10-12 inclusive of vol. ii. have apparently not yet been pub- 
lished. 
