•50 Aves 
III. AYES. 
[ 1905 ] 
Biziura lobata , osteology ; Pycraft, Bull. B. 0. C! xv, p. 100 : B. exhumata , 
3Q. Sp. [fossil]. Pleistocene of Interior of South Australia ; De Vis, 
Ann. Queensland Mus. No. 6, p. 14, pi. iv, figg. 1-3. 
Mergus albellus, notes on ; Bonhote, Avicult. Mag. (2) iii, pp. 120-124. 
Merganser castor , note on ; Primrose, J. Bombay Soc. xvi, pp. 378 & 379 : 
M. australis , figured ; Boller, Suppl. B. New Zealand ii, pi. vi. 
Order PELJ3CANIF0RMES. 
Phalacrocorax , notes on the New Zealand Cormorants and allied forms; 
Key to the species ; Grant, Ibis 1905, pp. 566-576 : P. brandti , notes 
on the nesting ; Finlay, Condor vii, pp. 161-165 : P. gregorii and P. 
vetustus, n. spp. [fossil]. Pleistocene of Interior of South Australia ; 
Be Vis, Ann. Queensland Mus. No. 6, pp. 18-25, pi. v-ix, 
JPlotus laticeps , n. sp. [fossil]. Pleistocene of Interior of South Australia ; 
Be Yis, t. c. pp. 17 & 18, pi. vi. 
<Sula bassana in Italy : Foa, Avicula ix, pp. 5-8 ; Salvadori, t. c. pp. 33 
& 34. 
Pelecanus sula (Am. = Sula piscator vice Sula sula auct. ( =Sula leucogastra , 
Bodd.); Nelson, P. Soc. Washington xviii, pp. 121 & 122. 
Sula etesiaca, n. sp., Gorgona Island, Colombia ; Thayer & Bangs, Bull. 
Mus. Harvard xlvi, pp. 92 & 93. 
Fregata aquila at San Pablo Bay, California ; Gifford, Auk xxii, p. 408. 
Pha'ethon americana at Phoenix, Arizona ; Breninger, t. c. p. 408. 
Pelecanus grandiceps and P. proavus, n. spp. [fossil]. Pleistocene of 
Interior of South Australia ; Be Vis, Ann. Queensland Mus. No. 6, 
pp. 16-18, pi. v, figg. 1-5 : P. skarpei from the Lower Congo ; 
Bubois, Ann. Mus. Congo i, p. 21 : P.fuscus , arterial system of the 
brain ; Beddard, P. Zool. Soc. London 1905, i, p. 109, text-fig. 17. 
Order CATHARTIFORMES. 
S arcorhamphus patruus , n. sp. [fossil], Tarija, Bolivia; LOnnberg, Bull. 
Geol. Inst. Upsala vi, pp. 1-11, text-figg. 2 & 4. 
'Cathartes aura , in Maine ; Beane, Auk xxii, pp. 78 & 79 : in Michigan ; 
Swales, t. c. p. 413 : in Western Massachusetts ; Morris, t. c. p. 413 : 
G. a. septentrionalis (Wied.) is the North American species, true G. aura 
(Linn.), with which C. burrovianus Cassim is identical, being the 
southern form ; Nelson, P. Soc. Washington xviii, pp. 123-125. 
1 Gatharista urubu brasiliensis (Bp.) is distinct from the northern form, 
from the United States ; Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. xxi, pp. 275 
& 276. 
Order ACCIPITRTFORMES. 
Classification of the Accipitres ; Sushkin (674). 
Eggs of the birds of Europe ; Dresser (179). 
<Circus cinei'aceuSj at Rainworth, Notts ; Whitaker, Zoologist 1905, 
p. 266. 
Parabuteo unicinctus, from Margarita Island ; Clark, Auk xxii, p. 79. 
Micrastur melanoleucus , in Sinaloa, note on ; Miller, Bull. Amer. Mus. xxi, 
p. 345. 
Mclicrax niger\ a melanistic form of M. gabar\ A. L. Butler, Ibis 1905, 
p. 369. 
Astur palumbariuSj notes on ; Pilley, Tr. Woolhope Club 1904, pp. 361 & 
362 : A. fasciatus Yig. & Horsf. vice A. approximans Yig. & Horsf. ; 
