GRUIFORM.ES — ANSERtFORMES. 
Aves 35 
Sub-order Oxides. 
Otis tarda , an unrecorded Norfolk specimen; Southwell, Zoologist, 1897, 
p. 572. 
Order GRUIFORMES. 
Intercentra in the vertebral column; Beddard, P. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, 
p. 469. 
A monograph of the Cranes by F. E. Blaauw, Leiden and London : 1897, 
folio, viii & 67 pp., xviii pis. The following species are figured : — Grus 
communis , pi. i ; egg, pi. xvii, fig. 1 ; O. nigt'icollis, pi. ii ; O. japonensis , 
pi. iii: egg, pi. xvii, fig. 2; G. monachus , pi. iv; G. americana, pi. v; 
egg, pi. xvii, fig. 3 ; G. canadensis , pi. vi ; egg, pi. xvii, fig. 4 ; G. collaris , 
pis. vii & vii a ; G. antigone , pi. viii ; egg, pi. xvii, fig. 5 ; G. australasiana , 
pi. ix ; egg, pi. xviii, fig. 6. Anthropoides virgo , pis. x & x a ; egg, 
pi. xviii, fig. 1; A. paradisea , pis. xi & xi a; egg, pi. xviii, fig. 2; 
A. caruncidata, pi. xii ; egg, pi. xviii, fig. 3; A. ieucauchen , pi. xiii ; 
egg, pi. xviii, fig. 4; A. leucogeranus , pi. xiv; egg, pi. xviii, fig. 5. 
Balearica pavonina , pis. xv & xv a ; B. regulorum , pi. xvi ; egg, pi. xviii, 
fig- 2. 
Sub-order Dicholophi. 
Cariama cristata , breeding in the Zoological Gardens; Sclater, P. Zool. 
Soc. London, 1897, pp. 813 & 814. 
Order STEREORN [THIFORMES. 
Staphylornis , n. g. [fossil], type S. gallardoi , n. sp. (? Miocene), Patagonia ; 
Mercer at, An. Soc. Argent, xliii, pp. 233-235. 8. erithacus, n. sp. 
(? Miocene), Patagonia; id. t. c. p. 235. 
Order ARDEIFORMES. 
Intercentra in the vertebral column ; Beddard, P. Zool. Soc. London 
1897, p. 469. 
Corvus eremita , Linn. = Comatibis comata (Riippell) ; Rothschild, Hartert, 
& Kleinschmidt, Nov. Zool. iv, pp. 371-375: figured; iid. t. c. pis. 
viii-x. 
Lampribis rara , nomen emend, pro L. olivacea , auct. [nee Du Bus) ; iid. t. c. 
p. 377. 
Plegadis falcinellus, near Eberswalde; Altum, Ornith. Monber. v, pp. 19 
& 20 . 
Ardea purpurea, notes on the breeding habits; Whitlock, Zoologist, 1897, 
pp. 407-409. 
Nycticorax nycticorax , in Barra; Peel, Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 43. 
Ardea virescens , figured; Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B., pt. xxxv. 
Ardetta neoxena , remarks on; Rothschild, Bull. Ornith. Club, vi, p. liii. 
Ardea ralloides , in Orkney ; r Briggs, Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 158. 
Order ANSERIFORMES. 
Sub-order Phcenicopteri. 
Phcenicopterus roseus and P. minor , notes on ; Stuart Baker, J. Bombay 
Soc. xi, pp. 2-8. 
