640 On Volume XXV. B. M. Catalogue of Birds. 



body are also greyer than in P. thruppi, and there is less 

 tinge of isabelline colour. The white nape-patch in 

 P. barakcB is almost obsolete, whereas in P. thruppi it is 

 very distinct and large. It would seem that P. griseiventris 

 of Reichenow (Vog. deutscli. Ost-Afrikas, p. 214) must also 

 be allied to the above-mentioned species, but it is described 

 as having a grey streak along the sides of the head from the 

 bill, whereas in P. thruppi and P. harahce the lores, sides of 

 facCj and ear-coverts are pure white. — R. B. S.] 



[To be continued.] 



XLIX. — A few Remarks on Volume XXV. of the ' Catalogue 

 of the Birds in the British Museum.' By T. Salvadori, 

 C.M.Z.S. 



In 1896, on the appearance of vol. xxv. of the 'Catalogue of 

 the Birds in the British Museum,' containing the Tubinares, 

 a family in wliich I was much interested, I made notes 

 concerning some points which seemed to me worth con- 

 sideration. Although originally for my private use, I think 

 that these notes may be of some service also to other ornitho- 

 logists, and for this reason I am induced to publish them. 



The references to the ' Tableau Encyclopedique et Metho- 

 dique ' (Enc. Meth.) on pp. 344, 352, 357, 366, 382, 386, 

 390, 392, 395, 412, 419, 422, 425, 428, 431, 433, and 437 do 

 not belong to Vieillot (1823), but to Bonnaterre (1790) . The 

 same remark applies to the references ProceUaria grisea 

 (p. 412), P.variegata (p. 412), P. latirostris (p. 433), andP./as- 

 ciata (p. 435), all of them attributed to Vieillot, while they 

 belong to Bonnaterre. Luckily, altliough 33 years older 

 than stated in the ' Catalogue," those names do not affect 

 the nomenclature followed by Salvin. 



The same author used to quote D'Aubenton's ' Planches 

 Enluminees ' after Buffon's ' Histoire Naturelle,' a practice 

 not in accordance with the historical order of the species. 



The descriptions of (Estrelata magentce, (E. armiyijoniana, 

 (E. defiUppiana, and (E. trinitatis Gigl. et Salvad. have been 

 published first in the Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. xi. (1868), 



