GRALLiK, ANSliRES. 
Aves 61 
Peisian Gulf. The eggs (specimens of which have been sent to the 
Recorder) are pure white.] 
Strepsilas interpres obtained for the first time in Lombardy ; P. Pavesi, 
Rend. 1st. Lomb. (2) xii. fasc. 11-12. 
GRDIDiE. 
Grus virgo figured ; H. E. Dresser, B. Eur. pts. Ixxiii. & Ixxiv. 
CiCONIIDA!;. 
Ciconia nigra : its breeding-places in Denmark ; P. L. Sclater, Ibis, 
1879, p. 118. 
Megaloscelornis sivalensis, g. & sp. nn. (fossil), R. Lyddeker, Rec. Geoh 
Surv. Ind. xii. p. 6G; allied to LeptojJtilus, but largen 
Ardeid^e. 
Ardea lanshergii, sp. n., H, Schlegel, Notes Leyden Mus. i. p. 113, 
Macassar, S. Celebes. A. hubulcus and A. ralloides figured; H. E. 
Dresser, B. Eur. pts. Ixxv. & Ixxvi. 
Botaurus lentiginosus figured ; id. op. cit. pts. Ixxiii. & Ixxiv. 
Nycticorax megacephalus i remains described and figured ; A. Gunther 
& E. Newton, Phil. Trans, clxviii. p. 435, pl. xii, fig. G. N. griseus figured J 
II. E. Dresser, B, Eur. pts. Ixxv. & ixxvi. 
Phcenicopterid.®, 
riicenicopterus roseus figured ; PI. E, Dresser, B. Eur. pts. Ixxv. & ixxvi. 
ANSERES. 
Anatid^. 
Anas ahe7'ti, sp. n., R, Ridgway, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 250, Mazatlan, 
Mexico. A. wyvilliana^ Scl., female described ; id. 1. c. A. boscas is the, 
correct orthography, and not A. boschas ; H. T. Wharton, Ibis, 1879, 
p. 452. 
Anser ej'ythropus obtained near Seville; L. II. Irby, Ibis, 1879, p. 346. 
A. segetum figured ; H. E. Dresser, B. Eur. pts. Ixxv. & Ixxvi. 
Buchepliala islandica, remarks on ; T. M. Brewer, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 
Club, iv. pp. 148-152. 
Cla.ngula glaucion, obtained in Sindh ; S. Doig, Str. Feath. vii. p. 505, 
see also tom. cit. p. 464. 
Mareca penelope obtained in North Carolina ; De L. Berier, Bull. Nutt. 
Oru. Club, iv. p. 190. 
CBdemia fusca obtaiued near Godthaab, Greenland, and now in Museum 
at Copenhagen ; J. Reinhardt, Vid. Medd. Jan. 8th, 1879 [sep.] 
Querquedula {Pterocyanea) hartlaubi figured ; E. Oustalet, N. Arch. 
