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P. jobiensi Meyer simillima sed major. Long. tot. oJßO, 

 ala 0,092, cauda 0,068, rostr. 0,016 M. — 



Hab.: Miosnom (Beccari). 



GORVIDAE. 



Platysmurus Schlegeli. 



V. Pelzein, Verh. k. k. zool. bot. Ges. Wien 1879, p. 529. 



Totus niger parum cyaneo nitens, plumis nasalibus densis 

 antrorsum et sursum directis, plumis pilei elongatis, cauda parum 

 gradata, rectricibus rotundatis, rostro brevi, culmine multum 

 curvato, rostri parte anteriore rufescente. 



P. aterrimo e Borneo similis, sed minor, rostro breviore, 

 magis alto. 



Hab. : Sumatra. 



Long. tot. 13V2 Zoll, alae 6 Zoll 10 Linien, caudae 6 Zoll 

 3 Linien, rostri a rictu 14 Linien. 



PLOGEIDAE. 



Euplectes Gierowii. 



J. Cabanis, Sitz. d. Deutschen Ornith. Ges. 8. Dec. 1879 

 (Ornith. Centralbl. No. 1 1880, p. 6). 



Munia Forhesi. 



P. L. Sclater, Proc. Z. S. 1879, III, p. 449. t. 37, f. 3. 



Testaceo - rufa, subtus paulo dilutior; capite undique cum 

 gula, hypochondriis et ventre imo cum femoribus et caudae 

 tectricibus productis nigris; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long. tot. 4, 

 alae 2, caudae acuminatae 1,5, rostro crassiusculo. 



Hab.: Nova Hibernia (Brown). 



FBINGILLIDAE. 



Donacicola spectabUis. 



P. L. Sclater, Proc. Z. S. 1879, III, p. 449, t. 37, f. 2. 



Brunnea; pileo, nucha et capitis lateribus nigris; tectricibus 

 caudae superioribus et rectricum mediarum marginibus pallide 

 castaneis; subtus alba; gula, ventre imo et crisso cum femoribus 

 nigris; subalaribus ochraceo-albis; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long, 

 tota 3,4, alae 1,8, caudae 1,2 inches. 



Hab.: Nova Britannia (Brown). 



Peucaea illinoensis. 



Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club Vol. IV, No. 4, 1879, p. 219. 



Above Sandy ferruginous, indistinctly streaked with light 

 ash-gray, these streaks broadest on the back and middle line of 

 the crown;. interscapulars sometimes marked with narrow central 

 streaks of black. Outer surface of the wings light ferruginous, 

 the greater coverts less reddish and edged with paler; tertials 

 dusky brown, bordered terminally with pale reddish ashy; outer 

 surface of the secondaries ferruginous. Tail uniform grayish- 

 brown, the edges of the feathers more ashy. Sides of the 

 head and neck, throat, jugulum and entire sides deep dingy-buff, 



