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by Lafresnaye two other species distinguished by him : R. tremulus and gut- 

 turalis. Lafresnaye, however, cannot be said to have long enjoyed the plea- 

 sure of founding a new genus, since immediately after its publication Lesson 

 set about its demolition, referring R. tremulus wAgutturalis to Tkriotlwrus, 

 and leaving only Tnrdus bracliyurus for Ramphocindus. 



CERTHiACEyE. New species, Sy Italians striaticoltis, unirufus, fidiginosus, 

 bracliyurus, gularis, and cimiamomeus, all from Columbia, and defined by Lafres- 

 naye in the 'Rev. Zool.' p. 290. Prom the same part are Diglossa albilatera, 

 Lafr. (Rev. p. 99), and Dendrocolaptcs triangularis, Lafr., in the ' Mag. dc 

 Zool.' tab. xxxii. Ptilotis flava, versicolor, and unicolor, Nyzomela obscma, 

 Glycipli'da fasciata, Entomophila ? ritfogularis, and albogidaris, Climaderis 

 melanura ; all from Australia, and defined by Gouldjn the 'Ann. Nat. Hist.' 

 xii, pp. C3-G5 ; who, besides these, has figured in the 'Birds of Australia,' 

 Nelipliaga Nova: Hollanduc, Lath., and scricea, Gould ; Glycipldlafuhifrons, 

 Vig., albifrons, Gould, and fasciata. (part 10) ; Nyzomela sanguinolenta, 

 Lath., and erythrocephala, G., Acanthorlii/nclms tenuirostns, Lath, and super- 

 ciliosus, Gould (part 11) ; Zantlwmyza phrygia, Lath., EntomopJiila picta, G., 

 albogidaris, G., and rufogularis, G., Nyzomela pectoralis, G. (part 12.) 



Lafresnaye has sketched the characters of four species of Conirostrum, and 

 given a figure of C. albifrons. (Mag. de Zool. tab. xxxv.) 



S. Miiller and Schlegel have added to the NectariniaB six new species from 

 the Indian Archipelago, viz. Nedarinia vulnerata, Boiei, simplex, liypogram- 

 mica,frenata, and Temmincldi. (Verhaudel. Laud-en Volkenk, p. 172.) Nec- 

 tariniaflavigastra, Gould, found in New Ireland. (Zool. of the Voyage of the 

 Sulphur, Birds, p. 43, tab. 24.) Memlaxis orthonyx, Lafr., from Columbia, 

 may provisionally be placed here ; a remarkable Bird, since it constitutes the 

 transition from Merulaxis to Negalonyx. 



HIRUNDINACE.E. Drummond observed on the 17th of April, 1836, near 

 Patras, a considerable flock of Hinoulo ntfula (If. alpestiis, Pall. ; daurica, 

 Linn.) ; at a later period (14th April, 1S42), in the Island of Paiio, near 

 Corfu, of two specimens which he saw, he killed one. (Ann. Nat. Hist, xii, 

 p. 419.) Neither Liudermayer nor Count v. Midile mention this Bird iu 

 Greece. Malherbe remarks that it appears occasionally in Sicily, Italy, and 

 Prance. Brandt states that Kittlitz has brought it from Manilla; and 

 Strickland adds the remark, that II. erythropygia is probably the same 

 species. 



Guerin says of his Hintndo abyssinica: "affiuis //. capeasi, sed multo 

 minor. Supra uigro-cyaiica, alis uigris. Pileo uropygioque rufo-ferrugineis. 

 Corpore infra albo, nigro guttato. Rectricibus uigris, intus ad apicem albo 

 maculatis, duabns exterioribus lougioribus. Long. tot. 15 cent." 



Vicomte de Tarragon relates, as eyewitness, the interesting circumstance 

 of Window Swallows building up in a few moments, and with great noise, a 

 hen Sparrow which had taken possession of their nest, and was sitting upon 



