liv LITEEATUEE. 



1849. GossE, p. H. Illustrations of the Birds of Jamaica. 

 Hirundo euchrysea figured (pi. xii.). 



1849. Bltth, E. a Supplementary Note to the Catalogue of Birds in the Asiatic 

 Society's Museum. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xvui. pp. 800-821. 

 Hirundo ki/pert/tkra, sp. n. (p. 814), Ceylon. 



1849. Strickland, H. E. " M/rnndo alUgtUaris." Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 17, pi. 3. 



Hirundo albigularis, sp. n. (p. 17) ; figured, plate iii. 



1850. B-EiCHENBACH, C. L. Avium Systema Naturale. Die natiirliche System. 4to. 



Dresden, 1850. Taf. i.-c. 

 Ptyonoprogne, gen. n. (Taf. Ixxxvii. fig. 6). Type P. rupestris. [ = Biblis, Less., 1837.] 



1850. SuNDEVALL, C. J. Foglar fran Sodra Africa. (Efversigt K. Vet.-Akad. Eorh. 

 Stockholm, 1850, pp. 96-111. 



Hirundo semirvfa, sp. n. (p. 107) . Upper CaiJraria. 

 Hirundo dimidiata, sp. n. (p. 107). Upper Caffraria. 

 Hirundo atrocaridea, sp. n. (p. 107). Lower Cafi'raria. 

 Hirundo yriseopyga, sp. n. (p. 107). Port Natal. 

 Hirundo spilodera, sp. n. (p. 108). [ = Petrochelidon spilodera.] 



Hirundo holomelas, sp. u. Port Natal. [Referred to the genus Psalidoprocne by Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1864, p. 108.] 



1850. Cabanis, Dr. J. Museum Heineanum. Verzeichniss der ornithologiscben 

 Sammlun<? des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine auf Gut St. Bernard von 



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Halberstadt. Mit kritischen Anmerkungen und Beschreibung der neuen 

 Arten, systematisch bearbeitet. I. Theil. Die Singvogel. 8vo. Halberstadt, 

 1850-51. Pp. 233. 



The Hinmdinidfe occupy pp. 46-51, and this year marks an epoch in the history of the Family, for 

 in the ' Museum Heineanum ' Cabanis described no less than four new genera and three new species, all 

 of which, save his Ps. cypselina, are fully recognized by ornithologists. The genera were : — 



Petrochelidon (p. 47). Type P. melanogaster (Sw.). 



Tachycineta (p. 48). Type T. thalassimts (Sw.). 



Psalidoprocne (p. 48). Type P. cypselina, sp. n. [ = P. holomelana (Sund.)]. 



Cheramveca (p. 49). Type C. leucosterniim (Gould). 



Cotile minor (p. 49) and C. obsoleta (p. 50), spp. nn., N.E. Africa. 



Petrochelidon meyeni [nom. emend, pro Hirundo leucopyga, Meyen {nee Licht.)], p. 48. 



1850. Cassin, John. Descriptions of new Species of Birds, specimens of which are in 

 the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Proc. 

 PhUad. Acad. 1850, pp. 56-59. 



Atticora hamigera, sp. n. (p. 58). Natal. \_— Psalidoprocne holomelmna (Sund.).] Figured pi. xii. 

 fig. 2. 



