HERODIONES— ANSERES. 
Aves 77 
Plataleid;e. 
Ibis propinqua, Swinb., ==/6/s nieldnoceplidla (Lath.) ; H. Seeboiim, 
Ibis, 1888, pp. 473 & 474. 
ODONTOGLOSSiE. 
P II M N ICOPTE RIDjE, 
Phcenicopterus roseus in Tunis [information rather behind date]; A. 
Koenig, J. f. O. 1888, pp. 291-295. 
ANSERES. 
Anatid^:. 
Fossil remains (new species), see Portis, A. 
Siiufeldt, R. W. Observations upon the Osteology of the North 
American Anseres. P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1888, pp. 215-251, 30 cuts. 
A very full and important paper, containing, after preliminary remarks : 
(1) observations upon the osteology of Mergus serrator ; (2) osteology of 
Spatula clypcata ; (3) notes on a skull of Branta canadensis Hutchins i. 
The Mergus is compared with Somateria . dresseri ; the Spatula with 
Glaucionetta islandica. 
Montlezun, A. de. Notes sur les Palmipedes Lamellirostres, famille 
des anatides. Sous-familles des Cereopsines, Plectropterines, genres 
Cereopse, Plectroptere. Bull. Soc. Acclim. 1888, pp. 830-844, 2 cuts. 
[Cf. Zool. Rec. xxiv, Aves, p. 21.] 
Rogeron, G. Croisements de Canards. T. c. pp. 918-923. [Cf. Zool. 
Rec. xxiii, Aves y p. 33.] 
Nyroca robusia, N. australis , Anas elapsa , n. spp., Dendrocygna valid i* 
pinnis , from Post-tertiary deposits of Queensland ; C. W. de Vis, P. Linn. 
Soc. N S.W. iii [1888], pp. 1278-1283, pis. xxxiii & xxxiv (figs, ha, 55, 6). 
Arctonetta fsckeri, Somateria v-nigra , (Edemia cunericana, (E. perspicil - 
lata [heads], Pkilacte canagica , figured ; E. W. Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. 
Alaska, pp. 76, 78, 80, 81, & 89, pis. iv & v (figs. 1, 2, 4, 5). 
fEthyia marila nearctica stated to have bred in Virginia ; C. W. Rich- 
mond, Auk, 1888, p. 19 : probably breeding in Oregon ; J. C. Merrill, 
t. c. p. 142. 
Anas boscas [£?] figured; Lord Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. Birds, 
pt. viii. A. boscas domeslica X Cairina moscliaia ; A. Pickler, MT. orn. 
Ver. Wien, 1888, pp. 84-86. A. boscas X A. superciliosa ; T. White, 
Tr. N. Z. Inst. 1885 [xviii] pp. 134 & 135. A. chlorotis figured ; W. L. 
Buller, Birds New Zealand, pi* xlii. A. vnyvilliana , further notes; 
L. Stejneger, P. U. S, Nat. Mus. 1888, pp. 98-101. 
