436 On two undescribed Species of European Birds. 



• Family Epeirid^. 



Genus Epeira, Walck. 

 Epeira sericata. 



Epeira sericata, C. Koch, Uebers. des Araclin. Syst. erstes Heft, p. 2 ; 

 Die Araclin. Band xi. p. 110, tab. 385. figs. 914, 915; Blackw., Spiders 

 of Great Britain and Ireland, part ii. p. 328, pi. 23. fig. 238. 



virgata, Hahn, Die Arachn. Band ii. p. 26, tab. 46. fig. 113. 



Epeira sericata appears to be a common spider in Montreal. 

 The collection contained numerous specimens, some of which 

 were adult, and the others in various stages of growth. 



Epeira cucurhitina. 



Epeira cucurhitina, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt. t. ii. p. 76 ; Latr., 



Gen. Crust, et Insect, t. i. p. 107; Sund., Vet. Acad. Handl. 1832, p. 245 ; 



Blaclfw., Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, part ii. p. 342, pi. 25. 



fig. 247. 

 Miranda cucurhitina, C. Kocb, Die Arachn. Band v. p. 53, tab. 159. figs. 



371, 372 ; titidus 5, Lister, Hist. Animal. Angl., De Ai-an. p. 34, tab. 1. 



fig. 5. 



An immature female of this Epeira was included in the 

 collection. 



LIV. — On two undescribed Species of European Birds. Bj 

 R. B. Sharpe, F.L.S., Librarian to the Zoological Society 

 of London, and H. E. Dresser, F.Z.S. &c. 



In the course of our studies on the birds of the Western 

 Palaearctic Region we have met with two birds which, as far 

 as we can see, are deserving of specific separation from the 

 species with which they have usually been classed. The first 

 of these we designate 



Picus Lilfordij n. sp. 



P. similis P. leiiconoto, sed pileo coccineo et prsecipue dorsi postici 

 fasciis nigris conspicuis distinguendus. 



This new species is closely allied to the Picus leuconotus of 

 Northern Em-ope, but differs materially in its crimson crown 

 and conspicuously barred rump. In the northern bird the 

 head is vermilion and the ramp pure white. 



We have dedicated this species to Lord Lilford, the Presi- 

 dent of the British Ornithologists' Union, who shot the typical 

 specimen in Epirus. Besides this example we have no less 

 than eight Macedonian skins, collected by Dr. Kriiper, as well 

 as one sent us by Mr. Robson from Ortakeuy, in Turkey. A 



