AVES PASSERINE. 
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Less., is identical with Fringilla thoracica, 111., and Pipilo rxifitorqiies, 
Swains. ; Pyrgita peruviana, Less., with Fringilla niatutina, Licht. ; 
Pyrrhula cruentata, Less., with Fringilla hcEmorrhoa, Wagl. {Pyr- 
rhula frontalis, Say, and Erythrospiza front.. Bon.) ; also Cocco- 
thraustes fortirostris, Lafr., with O. melanoxanthus, Hodgs. ; Loooia 
prasipteron, Less., with Sperniestes cucullata. Swains. ; Pitylus gut- 
tatus. Less. {Guiraca melanocephala, Swains.), with Fringilla xan- 
thomaschalis, Wagl. Lesson’s Coccothraustes carneus comes from 
Acapulco. (Rev. Zool. p. 210.) 
Callyrhyncus was separated by Lesson, in the Rev. Zool. 
p. 209, as a genus among the Pyrrhulince. 
Bill strong, very high, convex, crooked, much compressed sideways ; 
upper mandible much curved, narrow, pomted ; ridge of beak convex, 
dividing the frontal feathers, bordered on each side by a groove, from 
which rises the swollen lateral corneous plate ; novstrils round, bare, 
placed at the margin of the frontal feathers, and covered by a few 
hairs ; under mandible much compressed sideways, swollen in the middle 
and beneath ; tail moderate, pretty straight, &c. The new species is 
called C. peruvianas from Callao. 
Lafresnaye also has established a separate genus amongst 
the FringilUdm, to which he gives the name of Catambly- 
RHYNCHUS. (Rev. Zool. p. 301.) 
Rostrum breve, arcuatum, valde compressum, maxillae carina supera 
planulata, utrinque linea impressa marginata, apice obtusa, rotundata. 
Lafresnaye has established this genus from the peculiar formation of 
the bill, which rests upon a newly discovered species, G. diadema from 
Columbia. 
Gould, in his Birds of Australia, has represented the following species 
of this family ; — Estrilda temporalis, Lath, (part 6) ; E. rujicauda, 
Gould, (part 7), and E. phaeton, Hombr. (part 8) ; Emhlema picta, 
(part 7) ; Donacola castaneothorax, Gould, and D. pectoralis, Gould, 
(part 7) ; Poephila acuticauda, Gould, P. personata, Gould, P. cincta, 
Gould, (part 6). 
Brehm has now brought the Lark of the Desert {Phileremos), founded 
on Alauda alpestris, into live species. (Isis, p. 502.) He has been still 
more successful with the Yellow Hammer, which he has divided into no 
fewer than eight sub-species, of which he has given very full descriptions, 
with some interesting remarks on their habits. (Isis, p. 752.) 
Emberizet kortulana, which, according to Bujack, is extremely rare 
in Prussia, has been found by M. Rosenheyn pretty frequent on the 
bushy banks of the Weichsel; and at Culm is a fery common bird. 
(Preuss. Provinzial Blatter. 18f2, p. 2o2.) 
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