46 Aves 
III. AVES. 
Dafila acuta , plumages, nest, and eggs described; Baker, J. Bombay Soc. 
xii, pp. 437-445. 
Querquedida circia , plumages, nest, and eggs described; Baker, J. Bom¬ 
bay Soc. xii, pp. 445-453. 
Q. discors , in Chili; Schalow, Zool. Jahrb. 1898, p. 675. 
Mannaronetta angustirostris , figured; Baker, J. Bombay Soc. xii, pi. vii, 
pp. 459-464. 
Spatula clypeata , plumages, nest, and eggs described; id. t. c. pp. 453- 
459. 
Stictonetta ncevosa , note on the trachea; Campbell, Ibis 1899, pp. 362-364 
cum fig. 
Netta rufina , plumages, nest, and eggs described; Baker, J. Bombay Soc. 
xii, pp. 594-603. 
Nyroca ferina & JV. africana , in the Cape Verde Islands; Salvadori, Ann. 
Mus. Genova (2) xx, p. 310. 
N. ferina. N. baeri (figured pi. viii). N. africana , plumages, nest, and 
eggs described; Baker, J. Bombay Soc. xii, pp. 603-620. 
Fuligida marila , breeding in Sutherlandshire; Saunders, Bull. B. 0. C. 
viii, p. lix: nesting in Scotland; Harvie-Brown, Ann. Scott. Nat. 
Hist. 1899, pp. 215 & 216. 
Fuligida fuligula, nesting near Berlin; R. Hocke, Ornith. Monber. vii, 
p. 113. 
Eniconetta stelleri , notes on the plumage; Stone, P. Ac. Philad. 1899, 
p. 471. 
Arctonettci fischeri, notes on the plumage; Stone, t. c. p. 471. 
Soniateria mollissinia borealis & S. spectabilis, notes on the plumages; 
Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. xii, pp. 231-240. 
Somateria spectabilis , in the Shetlands; Harting, Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 
1899, p. 183: cf. t. c. pp. Ill & 112: in St Andrews Bay; Harvie- 
Brown, t. c. p. 239: S. v-nigra , notes on the summer moulting 
plumage; Stone, P. Ac. Philad. 1899, pp. 470 & 471. 
Merganser squamatus , from the hills of Northern China; Grant, Bull. 
B. 0. C. x, p. xvii. 
Merganser serrator , notes on the plumage; Stone, P. Ac. Philad. 1899, 
pp. 471 & 472. 
Order PELECANIFORMES. 
Contributions to the Osteology of the Pygopodes ; Pycraft, P. Zool. Soc. 
London 1899, pp. 1018-1046, pi. lxxii. 
Phalacrocorax eumegethes, P. promaucanus , nn. spp., Chile; Philippi, 
.Arch. Naturg. 1899, pp. 173 & 174. 
P. nigrogidaris, n. sp., Sokotra; Ogilvie-Grant & Forbes, Bull. Liverp. 
Mus. ii, p. 3. 
P. carbo, nesting in trees ; Ussher, Irish Natural, viii, pp. 186 & 187: 
note on the external nares; Pycraft, J. Linn. Soc. Zool. xxvii, 
pp. 207-209, figg. 1 & 2: [fossil] from the Lake-dwellings of Glaston¬ 
bury, Somersetshire; Andrews, Ibis 1899, p. 357. 
P. cirrhatus , Gm., notes on; Schalow, Zool. Jahrb. Suppl. iv. Heft 3, 
pp. 683-687 : P. magellanicus, figured ; id. t. c. pp. 681-683, Taf. 37. 
[Cf. Schalow, J. f. O. 1899, p. 289.] 
P. urile, the feathers of the young described and figured; Palmer, Avif. 
Pribilof Islands, pp. 373-378, pis. xl & xii. 
Nannopterum , n. g. Type N. harrisi (Rothsch.); Sharpe, Handl. B. I. 
p. 235. 
Prophaethon , n. g. Type P. shrubsolei, n. sp. [fossil], London Clay of 
Sheppey; Andrews, P. Zool. Soc. London 1899, pp. 776-785, pi. li. 
