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11 Of his zoological papers indeed, the ornithological ones must probably, 
on account of their more novel character, and as affording entirely new 
data for the solution of the various problems connected with the classifi- 
cation of Birds, which he revolutionized, be considered of the greater im- 
portance. No future worker in that group can neglect the facts or ideas 
concerning it that we owe to Garrod, and they alone suffice to put his 
name in the very first rank of those who have ever studied these creatures, 
and to stamp his work on Birds as truly ‘Epochmachende.’ ” 
Garrod’s numerous papers, covering the period of 1871-79, are scattered 
through various periodicals ; and it is a subject for congratulation that they 
have been collected in one convenient volume, under careful editorship. 
At a meeting of the Zoological Club to consider the wish of friends to 
possess some permanent memorial of Garrod, it was decided, with wisdom 
and good taste which none can impugn, “ that the most appropriate and 
desirable one would be the publication, in a collected form, of all the 
papers published by Garrod in various scientific journals and periodi- 
cals, with a portrait and memoir of the author.” This decision has been 
ably carried into effect by Mr. Forbes, whose own contributions to the same 
subject already prove him to be one on whom the mantle may fittingly 
descend. We wish there were more work of this kind, even if not of the 
same highest quality, done by our own countrymen ; but at present no one 
of them seems especially interested excepting Dr. Shufeldt, whose studies 
thus far possess much value and give still more promise. Noticing only 
two or three American names on the list of subscribers, we venture 
to hint that the work may be procured by others in the usual way. 
We cannot of course go into any examination of these papers in an ed- 
itorial notice like the present, or even adduce the leading results of the 
author. It must suffice to say that among them is an entirely new clas- 
sification of birds, primarily based upon the ambiens. Among the more 
important papers we may mention those on the carotid arteries ; on cer- 
tain muscles of the leg (Garrod’s piece de resistance ) ; on the anatomy 
of Pigeons, of Parrots, and of Passerine Birds ; and on the trachea in Gal- 
Imce . All these are of general import, bearing on broad questions of 
taxonomy, as distinguished from minor papers, however valuable, in which 
special points are examined. The editor has done well to preserve the 
original pagination of the text and numeration of the illustrations for 
facility of citation, and the plates are said to be faithfully reproduced. — E.C. 
Shufeldt’s Osteology of the North American Tetraonid^e.* — 
This osteological memoir is, so far as we know, the most complete of any 
on American birds of one group. In general the descriptions, with the 
aid of the numerous plates, can be easily understood. In treating of the 
skull Dr. Shufeldt adopts the old theory that it is nothing but the modified 
end of the back bone, and gives a diagramatic figure of the skull of Cen- 
trocercus much like that given by Owen of the Ostrich. This view will 
* Osteology of the North American Tetraonidse. By Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, U. S. A. 
Bull. U. S.'Geol. and Geog. Surv. Territories, Vol. VI, No. 2, pp. 309-350, pll. V-XIII. 
