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uizcd his Turdus Seiffertitzli. (Isis, p. 887.) A specimen of Turdus Wliitei 

 has been taken in Ireland. (Ann. Nat. Hist, xi, p. 78.) Cossypha gutturalis, 

 and niyrocapilla, from Abyssinia, have been distinguished as new species 

 by Guerin (llev. Zool. p. 162) ; he afterwards recognized the identity of the 

 latter with Petrocincla semirufa, Riipp (ib. p. 322). Lafresnaye has added 

 a tenth species to Grallaria : G. nifttla, from Columbia (Rev. p. 99) ; 

 Turdus fumidus, n. sp. from Timor (in the Land-en Volkenk, p. 199) ; and 

 (ib. p. 172,) Geodchla ntbiffinosa, from Timor. 



Considerable contributions have been made to a more 

 accurate knowledge of the SVLVIJE of the South of Europe. 



Lindermayer (Isis, p. 342) has instituted a new species, Sylvia (tialiearia) 

 eleeica. Of the same size as S. atricapilla , but in plumage resembling 

 S. orpfiea, though only about half the size, and differing from all in the un- 

 usual size of the beak, on which account it has a near resemblance only to" 

 S. hypola'is. Its time of arrival and breeding in Greece (end of May) show 

 it to l)e an inhabitant of equatorial countries. It appears to be altogether 

 an hitherto uudescribed species. 



Sylvia olivet orum, discovered by Drumrnond in the year 1836, in Corfu, 

 where it abounds during the summer, has heen found in Greece by 

 Lindermayer and Count v. Muhle. The former describes its habits, song, 

 and the structure of its nest ; the latter remarks that it is identical with 

 Riippell's Sylcia cassirostris. 



Lindermayer still believes that he has found a second new species in his 

 Sylcia ochrogcnio, which he would distinguish from all the other species, 

 principally by a yellow spot on the chiu ; it is, however, known to him only 

 in a solitary specimen. Count v. Miihle has moreover remarked to me, that 

 this new sp. is nothing but the female of S. melanocepliala, that has fed upon 

 the fruit of Cactus opuntia, which is of such a penetrating yellow colour that 

 it tinges of a beautiful yellow the chins of other birds also, for instance of 

 S. atricapilla ; he liimself at one time fell into the same error. 



Malherbc (1. c., p. 78) notices with respect to a sp. recently characterized 

 by Gerbe, Sylvia angusticauda : " Bill remarkably more depressed and tapering 

 than in the allied species (S. Fitis, rufa} ; tail feathers very narrow " Whole, 

 length 116 mill, tail 45. Found about Paris, and in various other parts of 

 France. Malherbe remarks that he had received from Algeria a S. rufa, which 

 appeared to him to be S. angusticauda, so that he supposes the latter to be 

 only a variety of the former, and there, perhaps, the matter may rest. 



Landbeck has again asserted (Isis, p. 600) the independence of his Sylcia 

 (Carruca) rubricapilla. Since, however, he cannot himself refer to any spe- 

 cimen, but merely repeats the statement of his father, it may still perhaps be 

 viewed only as an accidental variety of S. atricapilla, in which the crown of 

 the male retains for a longer period, or permanently, its youthfid colour. 



