42 Aves. 
AYES. 
[Shelley, G. E.] List of Birds collected in Eastern Africa by Mr. 
Frederick J. Jackson, F.Z.S. With Notes and an Introduction by 
the Collector. T. c. pp. 287-307, pis. yi & vii. 
The localities visited were Lamu, Merereni, Tangani, Jipi, Mashund- 
wani, Manda Island (all within 300 miles of Zanzibar, to the north), and 
JCilima-njaro. The last named was approached by a new route, vid 
Yanga ; the 99 species from that district are placed in a separate list, 
while of 31 from the former region 4 only are common to the latter. 
[See Ploceus jacksoni, n. sp., Philetcerus , pis. ( Ploceklce ), Cinnyris ( Nectar - 
iniidce ), Telephonus ( Laniidce ).] 
. On a Collection of Birds made by Emin Pasha in Equatorial 
Africa. P. Z. S. 1888, pp. 17-50, pi. iii. 
The collection horo described is composed of two parts, ouo being from 
the Wadelai district, the other from Tingasi and the Monbuttu country. 
Its especial importance lies in the fact that the species in the former 
portion are almost entirely N.E. African in character, while those in the 
latter are perfectly W. African ; whereby the limits of the two regions 
are well demonstrated. There are many interesting notes, and the pre- 
sent consignment adds many desiderata to the cabinets of the British 
Museum, and includes the types of the following species : — Indicator emini 
( Indicatoridce ), pi., Spermospiza ncftcapilla, Ploceus castanops , n. spp., 
Lagonosticta, Habropyga ( Ploceklce ), Glareola emini , n. sp. ( Charadriidcc ), 
Salpornis (Certhiidce). 
Shufeldt, It. W. Contributions to the Comparative Osteology of 
Arctic and Sub- Arctic Water Birds. Pt. I. J. Anat. Phys. xxiii, 
pp. 1-39, pis. i-v. 
The author takes a3 a subject for consideration the skeleton of Alca ' 
tor da, summing up, in conclusion, its principal osteological characters. 
Throughout, comparisons are made with other Birds ; and supplementary 
notes are {idded on the skeleton of the Great Auk, with refereuce to two 
specimens exhumed by F. A. Lucas, in 1887. Some of the plates do not 
refer to the present portion of the work, while others are given before 
their places, 
- — Observations upon the Osteology of the Orders Tubinares and 
Steganopodes. P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1888, pp. 253-315, 43 cuts. 
A still longer paper of the same description as the last, with illustrations 
of skeletons, whole or in part. It comprises in the first division ( Tubinares) : 
(1) skeleton of Oceanodroma furcata y with a brief summary of its osteo- 
logical characters ; (2) skeleton of Fulmarus glacialis rodgersi ; (3) points ' 
wherein the osteology of these two differ ; (4) notes upon a supposed 
skull of Pujfinus tenuirostris, &o. ; (5) observations upon the osteology of 
Diomedea albatrus. In the second division ( Steganopodes ) are included : 
(1) osteology of Sula bassana ; (2) the remainder of the skeleton of the 
trunk in the same j (3) of the appendicular skeleton ; (4) notes upon the 
skeleton of Phalacro corax urile\ (5) observations upon a skull of Pele 
canu9 fuscus. 
