Recently published Ornithological Works. 561 
author has provided a preliminary account in the ‘ Anatom- 
ischer Anzeiger ; for 1896. The results of this inquiry are 
of some interest to taxonomists. The author finds that in 
the developing skull there is a temporary phase of schizo- 
gnathism; and, more than this, that the vomer is for a time 
forked in front; the skull therefore at a certain period is 
distinctly suggestive of that of a Limicoline bird. Such 
facts, thinks the author (and there are corroborations), do not 
decidedly negative the view of Forbes and some other writers 
that the Accipitrines should be relegated to the neighbourhood 
of the Storks. But on the whole these facts do not necessitate 
such a placing. Dr. Suschkin docs not suggest an alternative. 
It may, perhaps, be pointed out that in the features men¬ 
tioned, as well as in the temporary existence of occipital 
fontanelles, there is an equal likeness to the Crane tribe. It 
has already been urged by the late Prof. Parker and by 
others that Cariama , a Crane in the wider acceptance of the 
term, is by no means unlike an Accipitrine. That the group 
of Cranes may form a basal group connected with the 
Accipitres, as well as perhaps with other forms, is a view 
urged by Mr. Beddard in his f Structure and Classifica¬ 
tion of Birds/ This is far from being contradicted by 
Dr. Suschkin’s important discoveries in the skull of the 
Accipitrine chick. 
102. Wyatt 3 s Second Volume of * British Birds 3 
[British Birds : with some Notes in reference to their Plumage. 
Coloured Illustrations. Vol. II. By Claude W. Wyatt, M.B.O.U. 
Folio. London, 1899.] 
The second volume of Mr. 'Wyatt's f British Birds 3 con¬ 
tains illustrations of all the Passerine birds which are 
migrants to the British Islands, the occasional visitors being 
left out. To these follow figures of the resident and migrant 
Picarice , Striges , Accipitres , and Columbce, according to the 
arrangement and nomenclature of the B.O.U. List of British 
Birds. As in the Passeres, the occasional visitors are omitted. 
The number of species treated of in this volume is 53. We 
can hardly speak too highly of Mr. Wyatt's figures, which 
