28 Aves. 
III. AYES. 
Suborder CHIONIDES. 
Chionididcc : a review of the systematic position of the family ; R. W. 
Shufeldt, Auk, x, pp. 158-165. 
Chionis alba on the coast of Ireland, in Co. Down ; P. L. Sclater, P. Zool. 
Soc. London, 1893, p. 178 ; H. L. Jameson, Irish Natural, ii, 
pp. 151-155, pi. 4. 
Suborder CHARADRII. 
Family Charadriid^. 
Eudromias morinellus : breeding in S. Banffshire, N. B. ; W. R. Ogilvie- 
Grant, Bull. B. 0. C. i, p. lv : in East Prussia ; F. Lindner & 
C. Floericke, Ornith. Monber. i, p. 45. 
Charadrius curonicus : nesting habits; E. ZiEMER, t. c. pp. 176 & 177. 
AEgialitis caniiana : nesting at Kharaghora ; H. Bulkley, J. Bombay 
Soc. viii, pp. 325 & 326. JE, vocifera , figured ; Lord Lilford, Col. 
Fig. Br. Birds, pt. xxv. 
Thinornis novcezeulandice : eggs and nestling ; H. O. Forbes, Bull. 
B. 0. C. i, p. xlv : figured ; id. Ibis, 1893, pi. xiv, figs. 5 & 6, xv, 
fig. 2. 
IToplopterus spinosus is the Crocodile-bird of the Nile ; J. M. Cook, t. c. 
pp. 275-277. 
Family Scolopacid2E. 
Subfamily Scolopacinas. 
On a point in the mechanism of the bill of birds (ox. Tringa alpina) ; 
W. P. Pycraft, Ibis, 1893, pp. 361-364. 
Numenius tenuirostris in East Prussia ; F. Lindner & C. Floericke, 
Ornith. Monber. i, p. 45 : in Holland ; H. W. de Graaf, Ibis, 1893, 
p. 150. 
Limosa cegocephala , figured ; Lord Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. Birds, 
pt. xxvii. 
Actitis bartrami , in Chili ; R. A. Philippi, Zool. Garten, 1893, p. 29 ; 
Ornith. Monber. i, p. 67. 
Totami8 solitarius , T. glareola , and T. ochropus , figured ; Lord Lilford, 
Col. Fig. Br. Birds, pt. xxvi. T. majori , u. sp. (fossil), Miocene of 
France ; R. Lydekker, P. Zool. Soc. London, 1893, p. 521, pi. xli, 
fig. 14. 
Tringa canutus : notes on ; G. H. Mack ay, Auk, x, pp. 25-35 : supposed 
egg from Greenland ; H. Seeboiim, Bull. B. 0. C. i, p. xxxii. T. 
acuminata , in Norfolk ; id. Ibis, 1893, pp. 181-183, pi. v : its 
synonymy ; P. L. Sclater, t. c. pp. 183-186. T. alpina , T. striata , 
and T. macidata , figured ; Lord Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. Birds, pt. 
xxiv. T. subarquata ) figured ; d. t. c. pt. xxv. T. temmincki ) in 
