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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
. Limosa uropygialis, Gould, is very common at tlie mouth of the Yukon and 
further northward. W. H. Dali, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sc. i. p. 293. American 
specimens described and figured. S. F. Baird, tom. cit. p. 320, pi. xxxii. 
Glottis canescens is figured. J. Gould, B. Gr. Br. pt. xv. 
Actitm'us bartramius, its occurrence at Malta. 0. A. Wright, Ibis, 1869, 
pp. 247, 248. 
CHARADRIIDiE. 
Hoplopterus spinosuSf its occurrence at Malta. C. A. Wright, Ibis, 1869, 
pp. 246, 247. 
Lobivanellus goetisis breeds on housetops. C. Horne, tom. cit. pp. 454-456. 
Harting, j. E. On rare or little-known Ibis, 1869, 
pp. 304-310, pi. viii. 
This paper treats of Anarhynchus frontalis in a very admirable maimer, 
giving a full account of all that was known of this singular form, which the 
author seems inclined to regard as related to Strepsilas, and as having pro- 
bably its nearest ally in Thinornis. The diverted bill he shows to be a 
constant character. The species is well figured. 
Anarhynchus frontalis^ specimens exhibited. Id. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 360. 
Remarks on, taking on the whole much the same view of its affinities as does 
Mr. Harting {ut supra). G. llartlaub, tom. cit. pp. 433-438. Further note 
on ; its affinities are with Strepsilas and Charadrius [^JEgialitis']. W. Jardine, 
Ibis, 1869, pp. 461, 462. 
Strepsilas interpres (of. Zool. Rec. ii. p. 60) has been obtained in Spitsbergen. 
A. J. Malmgren, to7n. cit. p. 230. 
Chionis albuj notes on it, with figures and a short account of its digestive 
organs. R. O. Cunningham, Journ. Anat. & Physiol. Nov. 1869, pp. 87-89, 
pi. vii. , 
CEdicnemus vermiculatus is described and figured as a new species from 
Lake Jipe, in East Africa, resembling CE. sencgalensis, but smaller, with a 
blackish bill, some dark brown zigzag markings above beside the blackish 
shaft-streaks, and a white longitudinal streak under the blackish upper edge, 
of the wing, which does not appear at all in (E. crepitans. J. Cabanis, J. f. 0. 
1868 (published in 1869), pp. 413, 414 j Id. Von der Decken’s Reisen, iii. 1. 
p. 46, t. xvi. 
CEdicnemus crepitans (ad. & pull.) is figured. J. Gould, B. Gr. Br. pt. xv. 
CEdicnemus bistriatus in confinement. P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 430. 
Glareola pratincola shot in Norfolk. 11, Stevenson, Zool. S. S. p. 1492. 
Glareola lactea is figured. J. Gould, B. As. pt. xxi. 
OursQi'im gallicus ^ killed [in Wurttemberg ?] in September 1868 by the 
writer. — Rapp, Zool. Garten, 1869, pp. 157, 158. The same occurrence, with 
the [erroneous ?] date 8 October ” given. M. T. v. Heuglin, J. f. 0. 1860, 
p. 256. [ Cf. Zool. Rec. v. p. 106.] 
Attagis chimhorazensis is figured. P. L. Sclater & 0. Salvin, Ex. Orn. p. 157, 
pi. Ixxix. 
Legge, W. Vincent. Notes on the Habits of Pedionomus 
torquatus. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, pp. 236-238. 
From its carriage and egg (the latter only ex ovario, however) it seems to 
the author possible that this remarkable form is rather one of the Gi'allce than 
of the GallincBj though its mode of flight is entirely peculiar. The <;gg 
