24 Aves. 
AYES. 
Family Perdicid.®. 
Pternistes humboldti and P. leucoparceus , Francolinus altumi and F. 
hildebrandti , remarks on ; A. Reichenow, J. f. 0. 1890, p. 77. 
Francolinus granti , P. hirhi , P. spilogaster , F. castaneicollis , notes on ; 
W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1890, pp. 345-347. P. shelleyi (S. E. Africa), 
and P. griseostriatus (Congo), n. spp. ; «7£. £. c. pp. 348 & 349, pis. x & xi. 
Bambusicola erythrophrys , n. sp., Mt. Kina Balu ; R. B. Sharpe, Ibis, 
1890, p. 139, pi. iv. 
Oreortyx pictus conjinis , nest and eggs ; A. W. Anthony, Zoe, 1890, p. 6. 
Lophortyx calif ornicus, skeleton figured ; A. B. Meyer, Abbild. Vogel- 
skel. pts. xiv & xv, pi. cxxxvi, fig. 2. 
Compsortyx , nom . emend, pro “ Fxcalfactoria , Bp.” ; F. Heine, 
Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 292. 
* Plectroperdix, nom. emend, pro “ Hepburnia , Bp.” ; id. t. c. p. 293. 
Coturnix pectoralis , egg figured ; A. J. North, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
B. pi. xvi, fig, 10. 
Family Numidid®. 
Numida sp. from Matabele Land : head figured ; P. L. Sclater, 
P. Z. S. 1890, pp. 86 & 87, pi. xii. 
Family Meleagrid2E. 
Meleagris gallopavo osceola } n. subsp., Florida ; W. E. D. Scott, Auk, 
vii, p. 376, 
Suborder HEMIPODII. 
Turnix beccarii, Salvad., = T. maculosa ; W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 
1890, pp. 344 & 345 : is distinct; T. Salvadori, t . c. p. 130. T. melano- 
gaster, egg figured ; A. J. North, Nests and Eggs Austr. B. pi. xvi, 
fig. 11. 
* Areortyx , nora. emend, pro “ Areoturnix, Bp.” ; F. Heine, Nomencl. 
Mus. Hein. p. 290. 
Pedionomus torquatus , egg figured ; A. J. North, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. B. pi. xvi, fig, 12. 
Suborder PTEROCLETES. 
Holtz, L. Ueber das Steppenhuhn, Syrrhaptes paradoxus , und dessen 
zweite Masseneinwanderung in Europa im Jahre 1888. Berlin : 1890, 
8vo, pp. 1-78. 
Newton, A. On the Young of Pallas’s Sand Grouse {Syrrhaptes para- 
doxus). Ibis, 1890, pp. 196-200, pi, vii. 
. Ueber das junge des Pallas' schen Steppenhuhnes ( Syrrhaptes 
paradoxus ). In das Deutsche iibertragen von Dr. E. Schaff. J. f. O. 
1890, pp. 159-165. 
