Aves . 1 
AVES. 
BY 
Howard Saunders, F.L.S., F.Z.S., & c . 
^J’he General Subject, with Titles of Separate Works and 
OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PaPERS PUBLISHED IN 
Proceedings of Societies, &c. 
Anderson, John. On the Osteology and Pterylosis of the Spoon- 
billed Sandpiper {Eurynorrhynchiis pygmcBUS, Linn.). Tr. L. S. (2) 
i. pt. iv. p. 213, pi. XXXV. 
The result of the examination of the osteological and other characters 
of Eurynorrhynchus shows that it only differs from Tringa in the singular 
expansion of the bill, the structural modification of which is homologous 
to that in Platalea leucot^odia. [ScolopacidaiJ] 
. On the Habits of Hornbills, being extract of a letter to Dr. J. 
Murie. J. L. S. xiii. p. 156. 
Relates the carnivorous habits of Hydrocissa alhirostris and Aceros 
suh-ruficollis. 
Arloing, S. Application de la M^thode graphique A P<itude du M6ca- 
nisme de la Deglutition chez les Mammiferes et les Oiseaux. Ann. 
Sci. Nat. (6) vi. Art. 1, Oiseaux, pp. 80-92. 
Ayres, Thomas. Additional Notes on the Ornithology of the Republic 
of Transvaal. Communicated by John Henry Gurney. Ibis, 1877, 
pp. 339-354. 
A supplementary list [cf. Zool. Rec. xiii. Aves, p. 2], increasing the 
number of species obtained from 193-221, with remarks on their habits 
and the colour of their soft parts, and annotated by Mr. J. H. Gurney, 
who describes two species as now [SylvUdce, Rallidce]. 
Ball, V. Notes on Birds observed in the region between the Mahanadi 
and Godavori Rivers. Str. Feath. 1877, pp. 410-420. 
Barrows, W. B. Catalogue of ihoAlcidce contained in the Museum of 
the Boston Society of Natural History, and a review and proposed 
Classification of the Family. P. Bost. Soc, xix. pp. 150-165. 
