GRU I FORMES ANSERIFORM ES. 
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Order GRUIFORMES. 
Sab-order GRUES. 
Grus cinerea , breeding in Oldenburg; Wiepken, Ornith. Monber. iv, 
p. 96. G. antigone , iigured ; H. E. Dresser, Suppl. Birds Europe, 
pt. ix, pi. 707. 
J3urgeranus carunculata, in Somaliland ; T. Salvadori, Ann. Mus. 
Genova (2) xvi, p. 45. 
Sub-order PSOPHLE. . 
P sophia leucoptera lays a white egg ; F. E. Blaauw, Bull. B. O. C. v, 
p. xviii. 
Order STEREORNITHIFORMES. 
Stereornithes, remarks on ; 0. W. Andrews, Ibis, 1896, pp. 1-12 ; 
H. Gadow, t. c. pp. 586 & 587. 
Order ARDEIFORMES. 
Ilerodiones , remarks on the Classification ; F. E. Beddard, P. Zool. Soc. 
London, 1896, pp. 231-234. 
Ibis cethiopica , figured; H. E. Dresser, Suppl. Birds Europe, pt. viii, 
pi. 694 : on Dassen Island, S. Africa ; W. L. Sclateb, Ibis, 1896, 
p. 521. 
Plegadis guarauna , breeding in Minnesota ; P. B. Peabody, Auk, xiii, 
p. 79. 
Nycticorax nccvius , note on the flexor hallucis brevis ; A. Resler, Auk, 
xiii, pp. 172 & 173. 
Ardetta neoxena , notes on the species ; F. M. Chapman, Auk, xiii, 
pp. 11-19, pi. i. 
Butorkles robinsoni , n. sp., Margarita I. ; C. W. Richmond, P. U. S. Mus. 
xviii, pp. 655 & 656. 
Spoonbills and Storks in Holland ; R. Lodge, Zoologist, 1896, 
pp. 321-324. 
Platalea leucorodia , early notice of breeding iu Norfolk ; A. Newton, 
Tr. Norfolk Soc. vi, pp. 158-160. 
Melanopelargns episcopus storrni , n. var., Pontianak ; W. Blasius, Mt. 
Ges. Lubeck, 1896, pp. 120-122. 
Dissara episcopus , notes on ; F. E. Beddard, P. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 1896, 
pp. 231-234, figg. 1-3. 
Mycteria americana , breeding in British Guiana ; C. A. Lloyd, Timehri 
(2) ix, p. 223. 
Ciconia alba, in Warwickshire ; F. Coburn, Zoologist, 1896, pp. 385 
& 386 : its migrations; O. Herman, Aquila, ii, pp. 167-171. 
Tantalus loculator , in Bristol County, Massachusetts ; W. Brewster, 
Auk, xiii, p. 341. 
Tantalus milne-edwardsi , n. sp. [fossil], Middle Miocene of France ; R. W. 
Shufeldt, P. Ac. Philad. 1896, pp. 513 & 514, fig. 1. 
Order ANSERIFORMES. 
Sub-order PALAMEDEiE. 
Palamedea, nomenclature of the ; T. Salvador!, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
xxvii, pp. 2-7 ; P. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1896, p. 588. 
Chauna cristata , its nestling ; P. L. Sclater, Bull. B. O. C. vi, p. xxi. 
