ACCIPITRES, STEGANOPODES. 
Aves 75 
Cathartidje. 
The family, sub voce “Vulture”; A. Newton, Encycl. Brit. ed. 9, 
vol. xxiii. 
Cathartes aura , feeding habits of young; H. J. Roddy, Auk, 1888, pp. 
245 & 246 : its sense of smell ; C. L. Hopkins, t. c. pp. 248-251. 
STEGANOPODES. 
Osteology of the order, see Siiufeldt, R. W. 
Phaetiiontidaj. 
The family, sub voce “ Tropic-bird ” ; A. Newton, Encycl. Brit. ed. 9, 
vol. xxiii. 
PeLECANIDjE. 
Pelccanus erythrorhynchus, feeding habits ; N. S. Goss, Auk, 1888, pp. 
25-27 ; see also Koch, A. P. sharpii in Austro-Hungary, &c. j S. Y. 
Washington, Ann. Hofmuseum Wien, iii, pp. 63-72, cut [c/. Zool. Rec. 
xxiii, Aves, p. 20] ; Y. v. Tschusi zu Sciimidhoffen, MT. orn. Yer. 
Wien, 1888, p. 80. 
SuLTDyE. 
Sula yossi [£ ?], 8. brevjsteri [£ $], n. spp., San Pedro Martir Isle, 
Gulf of California ; N. S. Goss, Auk, 1888, pp. 241-243. S. cyanops, its 
eggs ; E. P. Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. ii, p. 679. S. dactylatra , 
Lesson, and S. nebouxii , A. Milne-Edwards (cuts of both); Edd., MT. 
orn. Ver. Wien, 1888, pp. 33 & 34. 
PflALACROCORACIDAJ. 
Phalacrocorax , fishing in Japan; P. L. Jouy, Am. Nat. 1888, pp. 1-3. 
P. carbo , see Phillips, E. C. P. varius, P. imperialis , P. punctatus, and 
P. feather stoni figured ; W. L. Buller, Birds New Zealand, pis. xxxviii 
& xxxix. P. stictocephalus in New Caledonia ; E. L. LayArd, Ibis, 1888, 
pp. 491 & 492. P. dilophus cincinatus [head], figured; E. W. Nelson, 
Rep. Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 65, pi. ii, fig. 3. 
PLOTID2E. 
Plotus melanogaster , breeding habits, &c. ; J. Whitehead, Ibis, 1888, 
pp. 412 & 413. P. parvus, n. sp., from Post-tertiary deposits of Queens- 
land ; C. W. de Vis, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. iii [1888], pp. 1286 & 1287, 
pi. xxxv, figs. 10cf & 105. 
