AYES CLAMATORES. 289 



Dendrocolaptes /V/v<^, from Columbia, is described by Lafresnaye in ' Rev. 

 Zool.' p. SO, and at p. 433, Lesson characterizes a Picolaptes citinamomeus, 

 from Guayaquil. Lafresuayc, iu.the 'Rev. Zool.' p. 43, criticises Lesson 

 for having assigned to the genus Ramphocinctus a place among the Tro- 

 glodytinse. 



HIRUNDIXACE.E. Fr Boie gives, iu the ' Isis,' S. 164, a survey of his 

 family Hirundimdae. With the Swallows proper are united the Swifts, a 

 step of which the Reporter cannot approve, seeing that sufficient differences 

 between them are afforded by the musculo-vocal apparatus and skeleton. 

 The author characterizes in detail the genera, and bestows on each its 

 appcrtiuent species. 



MENURiNyE. From an investigation of the Parasites living 

 upon the Menura, Denny has assigned it a place among 

 the Insessores. (Ann. of Nat. Hist, xiii, p. 313.) 



Denny obtained, from five specimens of the Menura, parasites, 

 among which were recognized the genera Nirmus and Menopon, the first 

 being almost exclusively confined to the Insessores, wading and aquatic 

 birds. One or two species of Nirmus have been met with in the Birds 

 of prey, and about as many in the Waders, but these are by no means 

 characteristic of the latter, as is, on the contrary, the distinct case 

 with Goniocotes, Goniodes and Lipeuous, not one of which appears to 

 infest the Menura. The Nirmus is regarded by Denny as the N. margiualis 

 of Nitzsch, and very much approximates that found on the Merulidse. He is 

 therefore of opinion that, if the constancy of parasitism with certain genera 

 in definite families of birds be taken into account, the Menura must be 

 numbered with the Insessores. 



CLAMATORES. 



MACROCHIRES. A contribution towards setting aright the 

 confused synonymy of the genus Ornismya (!) has been given 

 by Loddiges, in the Ann. Nat. Hist, xiii, p. 511.) 



According to this 0. vestita - - Trochilus iiropi/yialis, Eras. ; 0. hetero- 

 poyon, Boiss. == T. coruscm, Eras.; 0. microrhyncJia, Boiss. -- T. ImcJiy- 

 rhynchus, Fras. ; 0. ensifera, Boiss. = = T. derlianus, Fras. ; 0. Bonapartei, 

 Boiss. = T. aurigaster, Lodd; 0. Temminckii, Boiss. = T. cyanop- 

 tenis, Lodd. ; 0. Guerini, Boiss. = = T. parvirostris, Fras. ; 0. Ltifresnayi, 

 Boiss. = T.flavicaudatus, Fras.; 0. Allardi, Bourc. = 0. Paulina, Boiss. 



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