88 Aves. 
AYES. 
Turnicidjc. 
Turnix haynaldi , n. sp. [J $], Pal&wan I.; W. Blasius, Ornis, 1888, 
pp. 317 & 318. 
OPISTHOCOMI. 
Opisthocomida:. 
Opisthocomus cristatus, its habits, nesting, anatomy, and wing-forma- 
tion ; C. G. Young, Notes Leyd. Mus. x [1888], pp. 169-174, pi. viii 
[anatomy of young and egg] : breeding habits, &c. ; — Quelch [a letter], 
Ibis, 1888, pp. 378 & 379. 
FULICARIiE. 
Rallid^j. 
Fossil remains (new species), see Portis, A. 
Shufeldt, R. W. Osteologyof P or zana Carolina. J. Comp. Med., July, 
1888, 16 pp., 7 figs. 
The author treats — 1, of the Skull (3 figs.) ; 2, of the remainder of the 
Axial Skeleton (2 figs.) ; 3, of the Appendicular Skeleton. He then 
recapitulates the 17 chief characters. 
Parker, T. J. Notes on a Skeleton of Notornis , recently acquired by 
the Otago University Museum. Tr. N. Z. Inst. 1885 [xviii], Art. x, 
pp. 78-82. 
Found by R. Henry, near Lake Te Anau. 
Porphyriol reperta , Gallinula slrenuipes , Pulica prior , n. spp., from 
Post-tertiary deposits of Queensland ; C. W. PE Vis, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 
iii [1888], pp. 1283-1286, pis. xxxiv (figs. 7a, 76, 8a, 86) & xxxv (figs. 
9a, 96). 
Aramides plumbeicollis, n. sp., Jimenez; J. 0. Zeledon, An. Mus. Costa 
Rica i [1887], p. 131 ; cf. op. cit. ii, p. 3. 
E ary zona euryzonoides , notes on the typo specimen, &c.j L. Stejneoek, 
P. Bost. Soc. xxiii, pp. 461-463. 
Gallinula , sp. indet., from St. Denys, North of Seychelles ; E. Newton, 
Tr. Norw. Soc. iv, p. 552. 
Gymnocrex plumbeiventris figured ; R. B. Sharpe [J. Gould], Birds 
.New Guinea, pt. xxiv. 
Ionornis martinica , its breeding habits, &c. ; A. T. Wayne, Auk, 1888, 
pp. 109 & 110. 
Notornis , cf. supra. N. mantelli figured ; W. L. Buller, Birds New 
Zealand, pi. xxxii. 
Ocydromua australis, 0. brachypterus, figured; id. t. c. pi. xxxv. 0. 
greyi , 0. fuse us } figured ; id. t. c. pi. xxxiv. 
Ortygometra tabuensis figured; id. t. c. pi. xxxiii. 
