Lembeye, Av. de Cuba, pi. 5. fig. 3). These, with M. armillata, 

 from Jamaica, M. griseiventris from Peru, and my M. venezuelensis, 

 make a total of seven typical species of this singular group now 

 known, and afford a beautiful example of the regular diffusion of 

 corresponding ornithic species over distinct though neighbouring 

 geographic areas. The Philadelphian Collection likewise contains an 

 example of Cichlopsis leucogonys, Cab., belonging to the same family 

 of birds, the type of which in the Berlin Museum has been hitherto 

 considered as unique. 



Among the Tanagers in the Philadelphian Academy I discovered 

 two specimens of a very distinct species of Saltator, which I have 

 never seen in European collections, and which I described in the 

 Proceedings of the Academy under the name of S. atripennis. Dr. 

 Cabot of Boston also showed me the type of his Pyranga roseogu- 

 laris, which is apparently a good species. These two Tanagers must 

 be added to those given in my Synopsis of the birds of that family 

 published in these Proceedings last year. 



On examining the type of Mr. Cassin's Pastor nigrocinctus (Pr. 

 Ac. Sc. Phil. v. p. 68), I found it to be the same as the bird in the 

 Paris Museum named Sericulus anais by Lesson, R. Z. 1839, p. 441, 

 and which has rightly been raised to generic rank by Prince Bona- 

 parte under the name Melanopyrrhus anais (Notes Orn. p. 9). 

 The existence of a second example of this bird is very interesting, as 

 it removes all doubts about its being a real and not a fictitious bird, 

 as Mr. G. R. Gray hints in his ' List of Genera and Subgenera.' 



The same collection is also fortunate in possessing amongst its 

 complete series of Paradiseidce, the only known specimen of the 

 splendid second species of the genus Diphyllodes. American Na- 

 turalists were quite unaware when they named this bird that Prince 

 Bonaparte's characters of his Lophorina ( ! ) respublica (Compt. 

 Rend. 1850, p. 131) were taken from the self-same example. And 

 seeing that even after the correction of the error in the generic ap- 

 pellation (Compt. Rend. 1850, p. 291), the descriptive phrase given 

 by the Prince is positively erroneous, and such as the bird cannot 

 by any possibility be recognized by, I must say I think it very 

 questionable whether we ought not to employ Cassin's name Wilsoni 

 for this species, although certainly subsequent in time of publication 

 to Prince Bonaparte's term respublica. 



The Philadelphian Collection also possesses the only known example 

 of Paradigalla carunculata, described and figured by Eydoux and 

 Souleyet in the 'Voyage of the Venus.' 



Icterus Scottii, Couch, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. vii. p. 66, discovered by 

 Lieut. Couch in New Leon and Coahuila, Mexico, is the same as 

 Icterus parisorum, Bp. 



There have been two species of this family long confounded under 

 the name dominicensis. The truej. dominicensis (Pendulinus flavi- 

 g aster, Vieill.) is from Cuba and S. Domingo, and is the bird cha- 

 racterized under the name Pendulinus hypomelas in Bp.'s Consp. 

 p. 433. sp. 8. On the other hand, his P. dominicensis is quite a dif- 

 ferent bird, which I propose for the future to call 



