10 Aves. 
AVES. 
(xARROD, 4- Notes on tjie Anatomy and Systematic Position of the 
genera Thinocorus and Attagis. P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 413-418. 
Dissections of specimens of I'hinocoriis rumicivorus s^.nd Attagis gayi 
seem to show that there is no intimate relation bet\v©on them 4 nd 
Turnix ; the vomer of Attagis is described, and some interesting observa- 
tions are also made upon the systematic position of Chionis. 
. Notes on the Anatomy of Passerine Birds. Parts ii. & iii. J^om. 
cit. pp. 447-452, 523-526, pi. liii. 
The exceptional arrangement of the plantar tendons of the Eury~ 
loBmidce is described, as is the vomer in the family. Attention is drawn 
to more than one osteological character of the non-Oscine Passeres, and 
the previously unknown lower larynx in the Ptefoptoclidoi (^Grallaria 
and others), is figured. 
. Notes on an Anatomical Peculiarity in certain Storks. Tom. cit. 
pp. 711 712. 
A list is given of the species as yet dissected by the author, who found 
the ambiens muscle present in all except Abdimia sphennrrhyncha and 
Xenorvhynchus senegalensis. 
. Note on the Absence or Presence of a Gall-bladder in the family 
of the Parrots. Tom. cit. p. 793. 
Corrects a statement in P. Z. S. 1874, p. 594, as to the absence of the 
gall-bladder in all members of the family Psittaci^ it haying since been 
found to exist in members of the genera Cacatua and Calopsitta^ although 
absent in all other genera as yet examined. 
GerRE, Z. Sur les Plunaes du Vol et leur Mue. Bull. Soc. Z. Fr. ii. 
(1877), pp. 289-290. 
Giebel, C. G. Thesaurus Ornithologiae iii. 6te. Halh-band 1877, 
This concludes the work [cf. Zool. Bee. xii. p. 33, and xiii. AveSj p. 12]. 
d^pDWlN-AusTEi^, U. H. Descriptions of supposed New Birds from 
; the Naga Hills and Eastevn Assam. Ann. N. H. (4) xx. pp. 619 & 
620 {Timeliid(fi^ PanJtp]. 
. Fifth List of Birds from the Hill Ranges of the North-East 
Frontier of India. J. A. S. B. xlv. pt. 2, pp. 191-204, pis. v. vi. & ix. 
The new species in the joint paper by the author and Lord Tweed- 
dale (then Lord Walden) in Ibis, 1875, are redescribed, and % species 
are now described for the first time [ Timeliidce\ whilst 3 others are figured 
[^Timeliidcc, Sturnidce\. 
— — . Description of three new Species of Birds, of the genera Pellor- 
neum, Actinura, and Pomatorrhinus ; lately collected in the neigh- 
bourhood of Saddya, Assam, by Mr. M. J. Ogle, of the Topographical 
Survey. Oj). cit. xlvi. pp. 41-44 ITimeliidcc, Pycnonotidas], 
. Some notes on Birds of the genera Pellorneum and Pomatorrhinus, 
with a description of a variety of Chleuasicus rujiceps, Blyth. 
P. A. S. B. 1877, pp. 146-148. 
The author’s examination of Pellorneum ticTcelli, Blyth, leads him to 
