_Cepphus snowi_ (Alcidae), from the Kurile Is.–(Stejneger.) The range of _C. columba_ will now be "Bering Sea to California;" and of _C. carbo_ "North-East Asia and Japanese Seas." _Podoces pleskii_ (Corvidae), from East Persia.–(Zarudny.) Some new fossil forms from Patagonia.–(Mercerat.) Mr. F. E. Blaauw has published a Monograph of the Cranes, and Mr. C. W. de Vis has described the eggs and young of _Salvadorina_ (Anatidae). In all these cases the _Zoological Record_ for 1897 may be consulted. {ix}CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE v ADDENDUM viii SCHEME OF THE CLASSIFICATION ADOPTED IN THIS BOOK xi CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER II ARCHAEORNITHES–NEORNITHES RATITAE–NEORNITHES ODONTOLCAE 23 CHAPTER III NEORNITHES CARINATAE BRIGADE I–LEGION I (COLYMBOMORPHAE). ORDERS: ICHTHYORNITHES– COLYMBIFORMES–SPHENISCIFORMES–PROCELLARIIFORMES 48 CHAPTER IV NEORNITHES CARINATAE _CONTINUED_ BRIGADE I–LEGION II (PELARGOMORPHAE). ORDERS: CICONIIFORMES– ANSERIFORMES–FALCONIFORMES 70 CHAPTER V NEORNITHES CARINATAE _CONTINUED_ BRIGADE II–LEGION I (ALECTOROMORPHAE). ORDERS: TINAMIFORMES– GALLIFORMES–GRUIFORMES–CHARADRIIFORMES 182 CHAPTER VI {x} NEORNITHES CARINATAE _CONTINUED_ BRIGADE II–LEGION II (CORACIOMORPHAE). ORDERS: CUCULIFORMES– CORACIIFORMES 351 CHAPTER VII NEORNITHES CARINATAE _CONCLUDED_ BRIGADE II–LEGION II (CORACIOMORPHAE _CONCLUDED_). ORDER: PASSERIFORMES 466 INDEX 589 {xi}SCHEME OF THE CLASSIFICATION ADOPTED IN THIS BOOK CLASS AVES (p. 23.) SUB-CLASS I. ARCHAEORNITHES (p. 23). _Archaeopteryx_ (pp. viii, 23). SUB-CLASS II. NEORNITHES (p. 25). _DIVISION A. NEORNITHES RATITAE_ (p. 25). RATITAE (p. 26) { I. Struthiones (p. 27): Fam. Struthionidae (p. 27). { II. Rheae (p. 30): Fam. Rheidae (p. 30). { III. Megistanes (p. 32): { Fam. I. Casuariidae (p. 33). { { Fam. II. Dromaeidae (p. 36). { IV. Apteryges (p. 38): Fam. Apterygidae (p. 38). { V. Dinornithes (p. 41): Fam. Dinornithidae (p. 41). { VI. Aepyornithes (p. 43): Fam. Aepyornithidae (p. 43).