58 Aves. 
AYES. 
ALECTORIDBS. 
PsOPHIID.E, CAR1AMIM], OlIDIDAE. 
Tsophia crepitans , Cariama cristata, skeletons figured ; A. B. Meyer, 
Abbild. Yogel-skel, pis. lxxvi. & lxxv. 
Otis tetrax , first record of breeding in Mark Brandenburg ; H. Scbalovv, 
Z. ges. Orn. 1885, p. 9. 
LIMICOLiE. 
Charadriid.e. 
The family, sub voce “ Plover ” ; A. Newton, Encycl. Brit. ed. 9, 
xix. 
AEgialitis occidentalism AE. mechoioi, JE. gracilis, AE. venusta, AE. bifron- 
tata figured ; auctt. varr., J. f. 0. 1885, pi. vi. AE. vocifera, second occur¬ 
rence in Britain ; H. E. Dresser, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 835 [Tresco, Scilly] ; 
T. Cornish, Zool. 1885, p. 113. 
Cursorius gallicus somalensis, subsp. n , Somali-land [E. Lort Phillips] ; 
G. E. Shelley, Ibis, 1885, pp. 415 & 416. 
Glareola , sub voce “ Pratincole ” ; A. Newton, Encycl. Brit. ed. 9, xix. 
G. grallaria, habits and breeding; K. H. Bennett, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 
x. pp. 168 & 169. G. megapoda described, with an account of its nest 
and eggs ; J. Biittikofer, Notes Leyd. Mus. vii, pp. 233-235 & 256 (sup¬ 
plementary). 
Hcematopus , sub voce “ Oyster-catcher ”; A. Newton, Encycl. Brit. ed. 9, 
xviii. 
Chionididas. 
Chionis alba (head) ; Pagenstecher, Vogel Siid-Georgiens, fig. 
SCOLOPACID.E. 
Actodromas maculata, its eggs and breeding halrts; J. Murdoch, 
Exped. to Pt. Barrow, Alaska, p. Ill : egg figured for the first time ; H. 
Seebohm, Hist. Brit. Birds, iii. pp. 201-203, pi. Ixviii. 
Scolopax rusticola in the Austrian Empire ; A. Kotz, MT. orn. Ver. 
Wien, 1885, pp. 154, 163, & 171. 
Totanus calidris new to Japan ; H. Seebohm, Ibis, 1885, p. 363. T. 
glareola added to the list of Irish Birds; A. G. More, Zool. 1885, p. 438. 
T. solitarius from Marazion, Cornwall ; T. Cornish, t. c. p. 113. 
Tringa canutus , its egg asserted to have been found at Fort Conger by 
Lieut. Greely ; C. II. Merriam, Auk, ii. p. 313 : it was taken from the 
ovary in a completely formed state; II. W. Feilden, Zool. 1885, p. 387 
[cf. t. c. p. 344]. T. pectoral'ts , see Actodromas. 
