60 Aves. 
AYES. 
Pelagodroma marina new for N. America (Atlantic); R. Ridgwav, 
Auk, ii. pp. 386 & 387. 
Puffinus sphenurus and P. assimilis, breeding habits at Norfolk I. ; 
W. M. Crowfoot, Ibis, 1885, pp. 268 & 269. 
PYGOPODES. 
CoLYMBIIEE. 
Colymbus adamsi , occurrences in Britain; H. Seebohm, Zool. 1885, 
pp. 144 & 145. 
Alcidj:. 
Heads of various species figured [see Stejneger, L.]. 
Alca impennis [see Blasius, W., Grieve, S.]. 
Ceratorhina monocerata , the horny appendage of the beak; H. W. 
Heushaw, Auk, ii. pp. 387 & 388. 
TJria hrunniclii , its eggs ; A. Fridolin, SB. Ges. Dorp. 1884, 
pp. 418 & 419. 
IMPENNES. 
Spheniscim. 
The family, sub voce “Penguin”; A. Newton, Encycl. Brit, 
ed. 9, xviii. 
Eudyptes pacing rliynchus and Eudyptula minor , breeding habits ; 
A. Reischek, Tr. N. Z. Inst. xvii. [1884] pp. 193 & 194. 
RATI'TiE. 
APTERYGES. 
Apterygim. 
Apteryx australis , A. oweni , the right auriculo-ventricular valve of the 
heart does not differ from that of other birds, as Owen stated in 1841 ; 
F. E. Beddard, P. Z. S. 1885, pp. 188 & 189. A. australis , heart is of the 
avian type, not of the type of Monotremata ; E. Ray Lankester, t. c. 
pp. 239 & 240: the opposite view restated ; R. Owen, t. c. pp. 328 & 329 : 
the result of the controversy ; t. c. pp. 477-482. A. australis , 
A. oweni , breeding habits ; A. Reischek, Tr. N. Z. Inst. xvii. [1884] 
pp. 191 & 192. 
IMMANES. 
DI NORN it him:. 
Dinornis, remains from Tongawai R., Canterbury ; W. W. Smith, 
N. Z. J. Sci. 1884, pp. 293-295. 
