36 Aces . 
III. AVES. 
Order COLUMBIFORMES. 
Webbed feet in Antwerp pigeons ; W. Bateson, P. Zool. Soc. London, 
1896, pp. 989 & 990. 
Osmotreron wallacei ■ pallidior , n. subsp., Djampea and Kalasls., S. Celebes; 
E. Hartert, Nov. Zool. iii, p. 178. 
Sphenocercus apicaudus , nesting ; E. C. Stuart Baker, Ibis, 1896, p. 366. 
Carpophaga mindorensis , n. sp., Mindoro, Philippine I. ; J. Whitehead, 
Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) xviii, pp. 189 & 190 : figured ; W. R. Ogilvie 
Grant, Ibis, 1896, pi. xi. C. luillia/ni , n. sp., Bali ; E. Hartert, 
Nov. Zool. iii, p. 552. C. sasakensis , n. sp., Lombok ; id. t. c. 
p. 564. C. vandepolli , n. sp., Nias ; J. Buttikofer, Notes Leyden 
Mus. xviii, pp. 190 & 191. C. concinna separata , n. subsp., Key I., 
S. Celebes ; E. Hartert, Nov. Zool. iii, p. 180. C. assimilis , nest 
and eggs described ; D. Le Souef, P. R. Soc. Victoria (2) vii, p. 23. 
Ptilopus subgularis , n. sp., Islands of Peling and Banggai, E. Celebes ; 
A. B. Meyer & L. W. Wiglesworth, Abh. Mus. Dresden, 1896-97, 
No. 2, p. 19. P. dohertyi , n. sp., Sumba I. ; W. Rothschild, Bull. 
B. O. C. v, p. xlvi : figured ; E. Hartert, Nov. Zool. iii, p. 589, 
pi. xii. P. albocinctus baliensisj n. subsp., Bali ; id. t. c. p. 553. 
P. superbus , nest and eggs described; D. Le Souef, P. R. Soc. 
Victoria (2) vii, p. 22 : P. eivingii , nest and eggs described ; id. t. c. 
p. 23. 
Columbo casiotis , figured ; H. E. Dresser, Suppl. Birds Europe, pt. vii, 
pi. 697. 0. eversmanni , figured ; id. t. c. pi. 698. C. palumbus , 
figured ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. Birds, pt. xxxii. C. pulchricollis , 
nesting ; E. C. Stuart Baker, Ibis, 1896, p. 355. 
Tartar abbotti , n. sp., Seychelles ; R. Ridgway, P. U. S. Mus. xviii, 
p. 513. 
Chalcophaps longirostris , nest and eggs described ; D. Le Souef, P. R. 
Soc. Victoria (2) vii, p. 24. 
Iieinivardtcenas reinward ti griseotincta , n. subsp., New Guinea ; E. Hartert, 
Nov. Zool. iii, pp. 18 & 19. 
Macropygia ruficeps orientalis , n. subsp., Tambora, Samba wa ; id. t. c. 
p. 573. 
Ectopistes migratorius , at Englewood, N. J. ; F. M. Chapman, Auk, xiii, 
p. 341 : in Southern Wisconsin; N. Hollister, t. c. p. 341 : in con- 
finement; R. Deane, t. c. pp. 234-237. 
Leptoptila insularis, n. sp., Margarita I. ; C. W. Richmond, P. U. S. Mus. 
xviii, p. 569. 
Seardafella ridgwayi , n. sp , Margarita I. ; id. t. c. pp. 660 & 661. 
Geotrygon violacea , from Costa Rica; C. F. Underwood, Ibis, 1896, p. 447. 
Order OPISTHOCOMIFOKMES. 
Opisthocomus cristatus , notes on the anatomy ; P. C. Mitchell, P. Zool. 
Soc. Loudon, 1896, pp. 618-628, figg. 1-4. 
Order RALLIFORMES. 
Ilypotcenidia marchei , n. sp., Mariannes ; E. Oustalet, Arch. Mus. Paris 
(3) viii, pp. 32-34. [= IT. cnustoni.'] 
Nesolimnas , n. g., type N. dieffenbachi (Gray), with notes on the 
osteology ; C. W. Andrews, Nov. Zool. iii, pp. 266-271, pi. x, 
figg. 1-15. 
Porzana maruetta , nesting in Kirkcudbright ; Clark-Kennedy, Ann. 
Scott. Nat. Hist. 1896, p. 123. P. noveboraceusis , near Ottawa, 
Canada ; G. R. White, Auk, xiii, p. 173. 
