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He mentions 61 important structural differences existing" 

 between CYPSELI and TrOCHILI. To these structural differ- 

 ences he could have added many other differences in their 

 external appearances and habits. 



I think it is quite wrong to rely on anatomy only, as it is 

 usually done now by the majority of authors of systematic 

 classification. I am of opinion that the external characters 

 have as much importance as the internal ones. 



Notes on Collecting in Koua, Hawai,hy A. C. L. Perkins. 

 Descriptions of three new Birds from the Sandwich Islands, 

 by the Hon. Walter de Rothschild. HEMIGNATHUS ÀFFINIS, 

 LOXOPS OCHRACEA, and PALMERIA MIRABILIS, a new genus 

 of the family MELIPHAGIDAE, are described as new species. 



No. 1 8 contains : — On the Birds of Aden, by Lieut. H. 

 E. Barnes. In this second and last part, sixty-three species 

 are recorded, six of which are undetermined. On the Ocurr- 

 ,ence of the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Tringa acuminata) in 

 Norfolk, by Henry Seebohm. A beautiful coloured plate of 

 this species is given. List of Birds observed in the Canary 

 Islands, by E. C. Meade- Waldo. Many native names are 

 given. On a remarkable new Finch from the Island of 

 Bolivia, by Hans. Graf von Berlepsch. The generic name of 

 COMPROSPIZA is proposed for this new form of Fringillidae, 

 on which Mr. Berlepsch has bestowed the name of GARLEPPI, 

 the discoverer of this fine bird. A beautiful coloured plate 

 accompanies the description. Remarks on the Birds of the 

 Gilbert Islands, by L. W. Winglesworth. On the Bird 

 indicated by the Greek, /Jxkviov, by H. B. Tristram. On the 

 Species of ZoSTEROPS found in the Island of Java, by 

 Henry Seebohm. On the Species of Merula found in the 

 Island of Java, by Henry Seebohm. Notes on Birds observed 

 during a Collecting Expedition to Eastern Africa, by Frank 

 Finn. Forty. eight species are mentioned. On some Genera 

 of Oriental Barbets, by W. T. Blandford. On ACREDULA 

 CAUDATA, and its allied forms , by H. E. Dresser. Notes on 

 Paramythia montium and Amalocichla sclateriana, by 

 Dr. Philip Lutley Sclater. Mr. Sclater is of opinion that this 

 remarkable bird must come into the Fringilliform OSCINES, 

 but does not fit well with any of the groups of this section, 

 and proposes for it the new family name of Paramythiidae, 

 coming perhaps nearest to the Ampelidae and some of the 

 Dicaeidae. As to AMALOCICHLA SCLATERIANA, he thinks 



