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AYES, 
PELECANIDiE. 
Pelecanus , n. sp. ? ? [see Nevill, H.] : Pelecanus [see Hodek, E.' (Sen.)]. 
Phalacroco racidje. 
Microcarbo melanoleucus , various stages of plumage; W. Blasius, Z. 
ges. Orn. 1886, p. 173. 
Phalacrocorax carlo figured ; E. T. Booth, Rough Notes, &c., pt. xi. 
Plotid^. 
Plotas gen. [see Tristram, H. B.]. 
Plotus levaillanti figured, it is certainly the species which breeds a,t 
Antioch ; id. Ibis, 1886, pp. 41-43, pi. iii. P. melanog aster, difference 
from P. novce-hollandice confirmed ; W. Blasius, Z. ges. Orn. 1886, p. 178. 
HERODIONES. 
Ardeidj:. 
Ardeidce varr. breeding on the Danube; J. Young, Tr. Norw. Soc. 
1886, p. 170. 
Ardea cinerea figured; E. T. Booth, Rough Notes, &c., pt. xiii. A. 
picata new to Tenimberls. ; J. Biittikofer, Notes Leyd. Mus. viii [1886], 
p. 67. 
Ardetta minuta and A. podiceps, distinctions; J. H. Gurney, Ibis, 1886, 
p.295. A. neoxena, n. sp., Florida (probably S.W.) ; C. B. Cory, Auk, 
iii, pp. 262 & 408. 
ClCONITDiE. 
Abdimia, peculiarity of syrinx ; F. E. Beddard, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 321, 
cut. 
Giconia abdimii , its nest ; E. Hartert, J. f. 0. 1886, p. 606. C. alba 
figured ; E. T. Booth, Rough Notes, &c., pt. xi. 
Leptoptilus crumenifer , its nest ; E. Hartert, J. f. O. 1886, p. 607. 
Xenorhynchus, peculiarity of syrinx ; F. E. Beddard, P. Z. S. 1886, 
p. 321, cut. 
PliATALJCIDiE. 
Platalcea leucorodia used to breed at Fulham ; J. E. Harting, Zool, 
1886, pp. 81-88, pi. i : the breeding station at Naardcn, Holland, 
described; P. Crowley, P. Croyd. Club, 1886, p. 21: figured; E. T. 
Booth, Rough Notes, &c., pt. x. 
