xcvi LITERATURE. 



1875. Salvadoei, Count Tommaso. Descrizione di cinquantotto nuove specie di uccelli, ed 

 osservazioni intorno ad altre poco note, della Nuova Guinea e di altre isole papuane, 

 raccolte dal Dr. Odoardo Beccari e dai cacciatori del Sig. A. A. Bruijn. Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Genova, vol. vii (1875), pp. 936-939. 

 Hermotimia nigriscapularis, sp. n., from Miosnorn, =Cinnyris nigriscajpularis of this work. 



1875. Shaepe, K. Bowdlee. Contributions to the Ornithology of Madagascar. — Part IV. 

 P.Z. S. 1875, pp. 75, 76. 

 Neodrepanis, n. gen. Type JV. coruscans, n. sp. Figures are given of the head and wing. 

 The specimen from which the descriptions are taken was a male, not in full plumage, in the 

 British Museum. The generic characters were more fully described by me from a perfect spe- 

 cimen sent subsequently by Mr. Crossley (Ibis, 1875, p. 380). 



1875. Shaepe, R. Bowdlee. On a Collection of Birds from Labuan. P. Z. S. 1875, pp. 106, 107. 



1875. Shelley, Captain G. E. Three Months on the Coast of South Africa. Ibis, 1875, 

 pp. 60, 69, 70. 



1875. Shelley, Captain G. E. A few Stray Notes on African Birds. Ibis, 1875, p. 380. 



Some additional characters are given for the genus Neodrepanis. The receipt of further 

 specimens has proved that the sexes are very dissimilar in plumage. 



1 875. Waldex, Aethue. Descriptions of some undescribed Species of Birds discovered by 

 Lieutenant Wardlaw Ramsay in Burma. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th series, vol. xv 

 (1875), pp. 400, 401. 

 -TAhopijga sanguinipectus, sp. n., from Burma. 



1875. Walden, Viscount. Notes on Birds from Burma. Ibis, 1875, p. 463. 



1S76. Aemsteong, James. Notes on some Birds collected in the Eastern or Rangoon District 

 of the Irrawaddy Delta. Str. F. vol. iv (1876), pp. 313-315. 



1876. Ayees, Thomas. Notes on Birds collected and observed in the Lydenburg District of the 

 Republic of Transvaal. Ibis, 1876, p. 425. 



1876. Baeeatt, F. A. Ornithological Notes made during Trips between Bloemfontein and the 

 Lydenburg Gold-fields. Ibis, 1876, pp. 202, 203. 



1876. Blanfoed, W. T. Eastern Persia. An account of the Journeys of the Persian 



Boundary Commission, 1870-71-72, vol. ii. Geology and Zoology (3vo, London), 



pp. 220-222, pi. 14. 



Mr. Blanford here gives three good figures of Nectar inia (Arachnechthra) h-evirostris, 



Blanf. ( = C. asiaticus, Lath.), as well as his personal notes. He met with a Sun-bird near 



Maskat, Arabia, which, not being in breeding-plumage, he was unable to determine. 



