30 Aves. 
AYES. 
Parker, T. J. On an “Index Collection” for small Zoological Museums, 
in the Form of a Genealogical Tree of the Animal Kingdom. Tr. 
N. Z. Inst. 1885, [xviii], pp. 73-78. 
. [See also Notornis (Rallidcu ) , Apteryx ( Aptery gulie ).] 
Parker, W. K. On the Structure and Development of the Wing in 
the Common Fowl. Phil. Trans. [1888], clxxix (B), pp. 385-398, 
pis. lxii-lxv. [Received under the title of “ Morphology of Birds”] 
The author has worked out the structure of the carpus in the chick of 
seven days and older, finding that the “radiale” and “ulnare” show 
evidence of being compound structures, probably containing within 
themselves remnants of an “intermedium ” and a “centrale.” He has 
figured various stages in the development of the three oloments of the 
distal row of carpal elements, and has traced them up to their final 
vestigial rudiments in the co-ossified “ carpo metacarpus ” of the adult, 
verifying the results by comparison with other Birds. He has next 
traced the development of the three metacarpal bones, with their changes. 
Here he finds “ certain small cartilaginous elements,” which leave their 
traces in the full-grown wing. Lastly, ho has observed afresh the small 
distal phalanges in the Fowl and other Birds, and the rudimentary nails 
or claws of the second and third digits ; and has added a short revision of 
the structure of the wing in the liatitce. 
. On the Secondary Carpals, Metacarpals, and Digital Rays in the 
Wings of existing Carinate Birds. P. R. Soc. xliii, pp. 322-325. 
. On Remnants or Yestiges of Amphibian and Reptilian Structures 
found in the Skull of Birds, both Carinatce and Ratitce. T. c. pp. 
397-402. 
. On the Vertebral Chain of Birds. T. c. pp. 465-482. 
• . On the presence of Claws in the Wings of the RatiUc. Ibis, 1888, 
pp. 124-128, 4 cuts. 
On the discovery of a small claw on the third digit of the wing in Rhea 
and Struthio, with comparison of the manus of Caeuarius , Dromceus ) and 
Apteryx — tending to shew the archaic condition of that part. 
. Note on Long-Faced Birds. T. c. p. 217. 
Long-faced Wading Birds may be old forms, and long-faced Humming- 
Birds new. 
Patciioski, I. 0 faunye i florye okrestnostei g. Vladimira-Volinskngo. 
[On the fauna and flora of the neighbourhood of Vladimir-Volhyn- 
ski.] Zapiski Kiev. pp. 299-380. [Birds, pp. 307-311.] 
Peek, H. A Collection of British Birds at Rousdon. London : 1888j 
sm. 4to, 27 pp., 6 pis. 
Pelzeln, A. v., & Lorenz, L. v. Typen der ornithologischen Samm- 
lung des k. k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. (iv Theil — Conclu- 
sion.) Ann. Hofmuseum Wien, iii, pp. 37-62. 
Perkins, H. J. Seven Months up the Puruni River [Demerara]. 
Timehri, ii, pp. 314-338.. 
A few notes on Birds are given. 
