GALLIFORMES—COLUMBIFORMES. 
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Order TURNICIFORMES. 
Turnix fasciata , egg figured; Oates, Cat. Eggs, pi. viii, fig. 4: T. powelli , 
figg. 6-9: T. lepurana , fig. 8 : T. velox, fig. 7: T. pyrrhothorax , fig. 12. 
Order PTEROCLIDIFORMES. 
Notes on the systematic position; Shufeldt, Amer. Natural, xxxv, pp. 
10-16. 
Syrrhaptes tibetanus , egg figured; Oates, Cat. Eggs, pi. viii, fig. 13. 
Pterodidurus alchatus , egg figured; Oates, t. c. pi. viii, fig. 11: P. 
namaquus , figg. 5 & 10. 
Pterodurus exustus, note on; Witherby, Ibis 1901, pp. 275 & 276: 
P. exustus somalicus Hartert and P. exustus orientalis Hartert, are not 
entitled to subspecific rank; Grant, Ibis 1901, pp. 298 & 299: 
Pterocles senegallus , egg described; Bulkley, J. Bombay Soc. xiii, 
pp. 704 & 705. 
Order COLUMBIFORMES. 
Intestinal tract; see Mitchell (501). 
Principal Osteological characters of the United States’ Columbidce\ 
Shufeldt, J. Morphol. xvii, pp. 506 & 507. 
Notes on Papuan Birds: Columbce; Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 
viii, pp. 102-135, pi. iv. 
Sphenocercus medioximus , n. sp., Ishigaki, Liu Kiu Is.; Bangs, Bull. 
Mus. Harvard xxxvi, pp. 261 & 262. 
Ptilinopus. Review of the Papuan species; Rothschild & Hartert, 
Nov. Zool. viii, pp. 102-108: P. biroi Madarasz = P. iozonus , iid. t. c. 
p. 104: P. gestroi Jcaporensis, n. subsp., Kapaur, New Guinea; iid. 
t. c. p. 105 : P. huttoni , figured; Martorelli, C.R. Congr. Orn. hi, 
pp. 225-227, pi. i. 
Megaloprepia. Review of the Papuan species; Rothschild & Hartert, 
Nov. Zool. viii, pp. 110 & 111. 
Carpophaga. Review of the Papuan species; iid. t. c. pp. 111-116: C. 
zoece oceidentalis Meyer, not distinct from C. zoece; iid. t. c. p. 112. 
Myristicivora. Review of the Papuan species; iid. t. c. viii, pp. 116 & 117. 
Gymnophaps=Columba ; Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. viii, p. 117. 
Columba livia, skull figured; Shufeldt, J. Morphol. xvii, pi. a. 
Columba livia schimperi apud Lorenz & Hellmayr = C. intermedia Bp.; 
Grant, Ibis 1901, p. 521: C. mada , figured ; Rothschild & Hartert, 
Nov. Zool. viii, pi. iv: C. gurnea longipennis, n. subsp., E. Africa, 
Reichenow, Yog. Afr. i, pi. 2, p. 402. 
Columba domestica. On various races of Pigeons; see Yacquez, Breschet, 
Deneuve. 
C. picazuro, in Matto Grosso; Salvadori, Boll. Mus. Torino xv, No. 378, 
p. 14: C. arquatrix , in Somali-land; Sharpe, P. Zool. Soc. London 
1901, Yol. ii, p. 314: C. palumbzis, scarcity on migration in England 
in 1900; Pigott, Bull. B. O. C. xi, p. 56, abundance in Holland at 
at the same season; Blaauw, t. c. p. 56: nesting on the ground; 
Buchan-Hepburn, Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1901, p. 236: C. albigularis 
and its allies; Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. viii, p. 118. 
Macropygia. Review of the genus; Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 
viii, pp. 118-126: M. leptogrammica , auct. is M. unchall (Wagler); 
iid. t. c. p. 119: M. goldiei—M. cinereiceps ; iid. t. c. p. 125. 
Reinwardtcena. Review of the species; iid. t. c. pp. 126-128. 
Ectopistes migratorius, note on its decrease; Ward, Auk xviii, pp. 191 & 192. 
