286 in: FORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIV. 



The Cactornis inornata, recorded by Gould, in ' Ann. of Nat. Hist.' xiii, p. 

 474, is included in the above series : and Strickland's Spermophaga enriched 

 with a second species, Sp. margaritata. (Aim. xiii, p. 418, tab. 10.) 



The Emberizinse have been exhibited by Gray in Part 4 : Enspiza with 

 14, Emberiza with 31, Gtibernatrix with 1, Fringillaria 12 and Pleclroplianes 

 with 4, species ; or 62 in all. As other new species from the family of Frin- 

 gillidpe, we have to mention Teat-is cruentis, from Guayaquil, described by 

 Lesson in ' Rev. Zool.' p. 435 ; the Leucosticte griseogenys, of Gould, in 

 ' Ann. of Nat. Hist.' xiii, p. 474 ; Amadina, Gouldue, represented by Gould 

 in ibid, xiii, p. 363, and in the 'Birds of Australia,' u. 15 ; one of the most 

 beautiful species, named by Gould after his beloved but now deceased wife, 

 who took a zealous interest and part in his ornithological labours ; and 

 Amadina squamifrons, of A. Smith, in ' Illustr. of the Zool. of South Africa,' 

 tab. 95. 



The Vicomte de Tarragon has described the structure of the nest of 

 Emleriza qnelea in the 'Rev. Zool.' p. 83. 



Sundevall handles the systematic distribution of his Passeres, Frinrjilla, 

 Loxia, and Emberiza. (Forhandl. vid. de. skaud. Naturf. StockJi. 1843, p. 

 691 ; Isis, 1S45, S. 452.) 



STTJRNID.E. The young of Icterus diadematus, Temm., has been described 

 by Lafresuaye, in the 'Rev. Zool.' p. 42. It is distinguished from the adult 

 bird by an olive-blackish colour and yellow spot upon the cheek. Pendnlimts 

 californicus, from California, by Lesson, in ' Rev. Zool.' p. 436. 



DENTIROSTKES. A new genus, probably identical with Leptorynchus, 

 Menetr., has been raised by Strickland under the name of Bolocnemis. (Ann. 

 Nat. Hist, xiii, p. -415.) By the elongated bill, short tail, and the whole 

 acrotarsium, Strickland distinguishes his genus from Formicivora and Mvr- 

 mecka, as well as by the greater length of tail from Urotomus, and, by the 

 greater freedom of the outer toe, from Pithys. Strickland here places the 

 Tunlus cinnamomeus, Gm., and adds to it a new species, Holocnemis flammata 

 (tab. 13), probably from America. Strickland has, in the same journal, 

 described some other allied species, viz. Suiriri (?) icterophrys, Viell. (tab. 

 12), EuscartJrmm cinereus Strickland, and Nyrmeciza melanura Strickland. 

 Hartlaub establishes a BracJii/pterix alliyularis and malacccnsis,mi\ie 'Rev. 

 Zool.' p. 401 and 402. In regard to the first of these species, he conjectures 

 that it may be identical with the Nalacoptennn macrodactylum, Strickl. (Aim. 

 of Nat. Hist, xiii, p. 417.) There, too, (p. 370) Hartlaub has distinguished a 

 Tinactor guatemalensis from T. Fuscus, Wied. Other new species are 

 Tyrannula Tsclmdii, from Bahia (by Hartlaub, in 'Rev. Zool.' p. 369, and 

 in p. 80), Tyrannula ardosiaca, from Columbia, by Lafresuaye. The Tyran- 

 nm (Mikidus) monaclms, Hartlaub, in ' Rev. Zool.' p. 214, is interpreted by 

 Lafresuaye in the same journal, p. 234, as the young of Milvulus savana 



