Aves. 
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Mniotiltid^.. 
Tiuri’E, T. Maetin. Our Warblers. Am. Nat. 18GS, pp. 1G9-183. 
Notes on the habits of some of the North- American species^ chiefly of this 
family. 
Ilelminthopliaga lucicc is figured. D. G. Elliot, B. N. Am. pt. xi. 
Hasileutenis griseiceps is a new species from Venezuela, belonging to the 
same group as B. mesochrysus (cf. P. Z. S. 18G5 p. 284), but at once dis- 
tinguishable by its grey head. P. L. Sclater & 0. Salviii, P. Z. S. 1868, 
p. 170. 
Basilcutcms melanotis is a new species, from Costa Pica, differing from all 
the allied species in the decided black colouring behind the eye, in the supra- 
ocular stripe being of a clear ash-colour without tinge of yellow or green, and 
in its paler plumage beneath. G. N. Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. H. New York, 
1868, pp. 95, 9G. 
CiNCLID.E. 
JIgdrohata , a supposed new species, which might bo the young of//". 
caslimiriensis, but it is too small, is described from Rotegurli on the Sutlej, 
but left unnamed. E. Stoliezka, J. A. S. B. 1868, p. 33. \_Cf. Ibis, I860, 
p. 212.] The genus Jlydrohata [sc. Cinclus] referred to the neighbourhood 
.of the Motacillidcc rather than that of the Turdidcc. Id, he, cit, et p. 48. 
TURDIDiE. 
Tiirdits rujicollis, T. fuscatus, and T. nmmmmi', notes on these species. 
The entire want of any red on the wings, breast, or middle rectrices dis- 
tinguishes the first from the other two. Critical remarks on the figures 
given by Naumann, Von Middendorff, and lladde, witli a comparative table of 
dimensions of specimens of all three, are appended. E. von Ilomeyer, J. f. 0. 
1868, pp. 170-179. ICf. Ibis, 1863, pp. 195-198.] 
Tnrdtis pelios occurs in Dauria. B. Dybowski and A. Parrex, J. f. O. 1868, 
p. 333. [Q,u. T. pelios y Ilartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 75 P] 
Turdus pilaris breeding in Bavaria. A. J. Jfickel, Zool. Garten, 1868, 
pp. 374, 375. 
Turdus nanus said to have occurred in Massachusetts : E. A. Samuels, 
Am. Nat. 1868, p. 218. In New Jersey, T. M. Trippe, toni. cit. p. 380. Tlie 
first referred to T. sivainsoni and the last probably to T. pallasi J , A. Allen, 
tom. cit. pp. 488, 489 f ; E. Coues, Proc. Essex Inst, v. p. 6L 
Turdus ncevius has occurred near Boston, Mass. Id. loc. cit. 
Melanotis hypoleucus is figured. P. L. Sclater and 0. Salvin, Ex. Orn. 
pi. xliii. 
Ilarporltyncims cincrcus is figured. 1). G. Elliot, B. N. Am, pt. x. 
Orcocincla lumdata is figured. S, Biggies, Orn. Austral, pt. xvii. 
Clurtops aurantius is described as a new species from tlio Capo Colony. E. 
Tj. I.ayard, B. S. Afr. (1867) p. 126. Not recognized as distinct from C. 
frenatus, G. Ilartlaub, Bericht u. s. w. p. 193. 
^ Not 1866,” as stated by the authors. 
t This author herein refers to a paper by him, which we have not seen, as 
in course of publication in the Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural 
History (i. pp. 508 ct seqg.). 
