432 Messrs. Salvin and Sclatcr's Index of the 



couij)utes at about 350 species, of which cue only {Psittaculu 

 cingulata) is peculiar ! 



5. Ueher eine Vuyelsammlung aus Nordwest- Mexico. Abh. 

 nat. Ver. zu Bremen, 1870, pp. 322-3G3. 



The greater part of the 44« species included in this collection 

 were obtained by the late Col. J. A. Grayson near Mazatlan, 

 and on the Tres Marias Islands. In his preface Dr. Finsch 

 enumerates a list of 26 papers on Mexican Birds published in 

 various periodicals and other works, showing how scattered is the 

 information concerning the birds of this region. We notice in 

 this collection several very interesting species (rediscoveries we 

 might almost call them), such as Trogon citreolus, Pheucticus 

 chrysopeplus, and Psittacula cyanopyga. Others, of great rarity, 

 are mentioned ; and one species, Calocitta elegans, is described as 

 new. Different as this bird appears to be from C. coUiei, we 

 still think the suggestion thrown out by Salvin, as quoted by 

 Dr. Finsch, may possibly be correct, and that, not laying too 

 much stress upon the determination of the sexes, these two 

 supposed species may prove to be opposite sexes of one and the 

 same. There is a valuable notice of Otocoris alpestris, showing 

 that this name must be applied to the American bird, supposing 

 it to differ from the European^ a view not held by Dr. Finsch. 

 All the species of Otocoris, five in number, are also enumerated, 

 and their synonymy and distribution given. 



6. Neue Art der Gattung Ptilotis. Abh. nat. Ver zu Bremen, 

 1870, p. 364. 



The species here described is called P. argentauris. It is from 

 New Guinea or Waigiou. 



7. On a Collection of Birds from North-Eastern Abyssinia 

 and the Bogos Country, with Notes by the collector, William 

 Jesse, C.M.Z.S., Zoologist to the Abyssinian Expedition. 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. vii. pp. 197-331, plates xxiii.-xxvii. Read 

 June 10, 1869; published May 1870. 



The ornithological results of Mr. Jesse's expedition with the 

 army to Abyssinia. 221 species of birds are enumerated, of 

 which two are described as new, viz. Alamo n jessit, and Lanius 

 fallax. An appendix contains Mr. Jesse's Report to the Council 

 of the Zoological Society upon his proceedings in connexion 



