104 ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
-^PYORNITHID^. 
• Milne-Edwards, A.^ et Grandidier, A. Nouvelles Observa- 
tions sur les caracteres zoologiques et les affinites natu- 
relles de VJEpyornis de Madagascar. Ann. Sc. Nat. 5e 
ser. xii. pp. 167-196^ pis. 6-16. Abstract, Comptes Rendus, 
Ixix. pp. 801-805. Translated, Ann. & Mag. N. II. 4tli scr. 
iy. pp. 437, 438. 
After a concise abstract of wbat had previously been known on 
the subject, the authors proceed to describe, in great detail, the 
remains recently sent to Paris (Zool. Rec. v. p. 113), namely : — 
a perfect tibia and some fragments of another, a nearly perfect 
femur, and two detached vertebrte of maximus j a nearly en- 
tire femur and some fragments of a smaller species, called JE. 
medius't and a very imperfect femur of a third species, smaller 
still, named JE. modestus. They consider JEpyornis to be the 
type of a family quite distinct from the other Struthiones, and 
that it probably lived after Madagascar was inhabited by man. 
The remains of the two larger species are beautifully figured, of 
the natural size. 
APTERYQIDiE. 
Apteiyx oweni in confinement. P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 18G9, p. 468. 
Apteryx ^ in the structure of its egg-shell, does not much agree with other 
Struthiones. W. von Nathusius, Zeitschr. Avissensch. Zool. xx. p. 128. 
