ORNITHOLOGY PASSERINE. C>7 



Cnssicus itropyf/ifilis has been described as a new species from Columbia 

 by Lafresnaye. (llcv. Zool. p. 290.) 



DENTIROSTRES. Tlic Fauna of Europe lias been aug- 

 mented with a new species, Lanius nubicus, Licht. (L. per- 

 sonatus, Temm., O. col. 216, 2.) 



This Bird, hitherto known only as from Nubia and Arabia, has now for 

 the first time been indicated as European, by Lindermayer, under the name 

 of L. personages. He met with it in Greece as a bird of passage, which 

 arrives in that country very late, not till the end of April or beginning of 

 May. About the same time, Hartlaub had received a Shrike (Wiirger) 

 from Greece, a drawing of which he transmitted to Lafresnaye, who recog- 

 nized the subject of it as L. milieus or person at us. (Rev. Zool. p. 159.) Not 

 long afterwards, Hartlaub discovered that Lindermayer had already given 

 this as a Greek species, in the 'Isis' (Rev. p. 211). Soon after tliis, 

 Count v. Muhle gave a notice of it, under the name of L. leucometopon, but 

 was satisfied, immediately upon receiving the ' Isis,' that it was identical 

 with Lindermayer' s L. personatus. Thus, then, L. nubicus has been almost 

 simultaneously added to the European Fauna, by three different parties. 



Between Lanius JEtkiopicus, Lath. Gin., and Levaillant's " Pie-grieche," 

 Bonbon, Guerin is inclined to think that he has discovered a specific difference, 

 on which account he distinguishes the latter as Lanius Bonbon. (Rev. Zool. 

 p. 161.) 



Other species are Collurio Smithii, from Cape Coast. (Eraser, Ann. Nat. 

 Hist, xii, p. 478.) Dicrurus bracteatus (D. balicassius, Vig. and Horsf. nee 

 Lath.), from New Holland, by Gould. (Ann. Nat. Hist, xii, p. 59.) Oreoica 

 (Falcunculus] gutturalis, Horsf., figured by Gould in the ' Birds of Australia,' 

 Part 12. He has also characterized an Artamus lettcopyfjialis from New 

 Holland. (Ann. xi, p. 143.) 



To our knowledge of tlie hitherto much confused Indian 

 species of Ceblepyris, S. Miiller and Schlegel have furnished an 

 important contribution in the Verhaiidel. Land-en Volkenk. 

 p. 189, in which they have critically arranged the species 

 hitherto constituted, and added eight new ones. 



() Subgcuus CAMPEPHAGA : (1) C.melas, n. sp. New Guinea; (2) C. cin- 

 namomea, u. sp. ib. ; (3) C. plumbea, n, sp. ib., and Timor ; (4) C. morio, 

 u. sp. Celebes ; (5) G. fimbriata, Temm., Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



(b} Subgcnus LALAGE : (6) C. oriental-is, Teinru., Java, Sumatra, Borneo, 

 Celebes, Timor ; (7) C. aurea, Tcmm., Celebes ; (8) C. timoriensis, n. sp. 

 Timor. 



(c) Subgeuus GRAUCALUS : (9) C. melanops, Lath. (G. mdanotis, Gould), 



