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REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLII : 
Certiiiparus is a new genus of Lafresnaye, founded on 
Parus senilis, Dub. (Rev. Zool. p. 69.) 
He regards it as an intermediate genus between tlie Tit Mice and 
Woodpeckers ; resembling the latter from its rigid tail, with somewhat 
outwardly turned feathers at the sides ; and the former from the shape 
of the bill, feet, and whole form. On these accounts, in the reporter’s 
opinion, it ought to be reckoned with the Tit Mice. The Parus nov. ze- 
landice, Lath., as Lafresnaye thinks, might be added to the Parus senilis, 
yet its tail is not stiff, though it has the same form. But this is, as the 
reporter adds, a farther and certainly very striking proof, that the 
genus Certiiiparus is quite untenable. Hartmann has (in the Rev. 
Zool. p. 75) defined the OrtJionyx heteroclites, Lafr., which is allied to 
this, as identical with Muscicapa chloris, Forst. Icon., ined. tab. 157, 
M. ochrocephala, Lath. 
Sundevall has divided the Antlius pratensis into three varieties, — 1. 
Var. Vulgaris; gula alba, striola nigricante utrinque a basi maxillas 
inferioris : 2. Var. Cervina (Motacilla cervina, PaU.) ; gula juguloque 
fulvis, stria lateral! ad latera juguli nulla evidenter nigro-maculata ; 
cauda et alac breviores. A specimen was shot in East Finmark in 1837 : 
3. Var. Rujigularis, Br. ; superciliis, gula juguloque saturate ex griseo 
rubicundis, striola gulas nulla, cauda et alae longiores. 
Lesson characterizes two species of Megalonyx, which he names 
M. nanus and rufocapillus, both from the island Chiloe, on the coast 
of Chili (Rev. Zool. p. 135 and 209). Lafresnaye now numbers nine 
species of Grallaria (ibid. p. 333) ; among them, O. rujicapilla is a 
newly added species from Bolivia. 
Gould, in his Birds of Australia, has given plates of Ephthianura 
albifrons, Jard. (part 6) ; E. aurifrons, G., and tricolor, G. (part 7) ; 
Drymodes hrunneopygia, (part 8) ; Petroica multicolor, Vig., Gooden- 
ovii, Vig., phoenicea, G., hicolor, Sw., fusca, G, (part 8) ; Erythrodyas 
rliodinog aster, Drap., and rosea, G., (part 8) ; Pitta strepjitans, Temm., 
and iris (part 6). 
Certhiace^. — N ew species : DendrocoLaptes triangularis, Lafr., from 
Bolivia (Rev. Zool. p. 134) ; Picolaptes capistratus. Less., from Realejo 
(ibid. p. 174) ; Tatare ( Sitta) fuscus. Less. (ibid. p. 210) ; Conirostrum 
albifrons and cceruleifrons, Lafr., from Columbia (ibid. p. 301). 
Flartlaub has remarked, that the genus Uncirostrum, Lafr., had pre- 
viously received the name Diglossa from Wagler. He points out six 
species (Rev. Zool. p. 569). 
Delessert mentions, in his Souv. p. 23, tab. 8, that Chloropsis auri- 
ventris, Del., is identical with Chi. curvirostris, Sw. Hartlaub, how- 
ever, had mentioned the same before in the Rev. p. 58. The Acauthiza 
tenuirostris was used by Lafresnaye for the formation of a new genus, 
and drawn in the Mag. de Zool. Ois. pi. 27. 
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