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PICARI.®^ PASSERES. 
Caprimulgid^. 
Caprimulgus ruficolUs figured. J. Gould, B. Gt. Br. pt. xix. 
Caprimulgus unwini, ep. n., from Murdan, A. O, Hume, Ibis, 1871, pp. 
406, 407. 
Caprimulgus marratus, sp, n., from Madagascar, G. R. Gray, Ann. N. II. 
(4) viii. ppi 428, 429. 
CYPSELIDiE. 
Cgpselus pekmmsis, sp. n., from North China, allied to C. apus: R. Swin- 
hoe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 435. Also from India : Id. op. cit. 1871, p. 345. 
Cgpselus gracilis, sp. n., Madagascar, allied to C. parvus, with which it has 
been confounded. R. B. Sharpe, tom. cit. 1871, p. 316. 
Cgpselus infumatus (Zool. Rec, vii. p. 44) figured. T. 0. Jerdon, Ibis, 1871, 
pi. X. 
Cgpselus ignotus and Collocalia incerta, their fossil remaifts figured. A, 
Milne-Edwards, Ois. Foss. Fr. pi. 169, figs. 18, 19, pi. 177, figs. 1-13. 
Trochilidte. 
Orton, J. On the Condors and Humming-birds of the Equatorial Andes; 
Ann. N. H. (4) viii. pp. 186-192. 
Good (briginal notes on the habits and distribution of some of the Tro- 
chilidce^ 
Ilelianthea osculans, Heliangelus squamigularis, Heliomastcr albicrissa, Leshia 
chlorura, Hriocnemis russata, and Polgtmus leucorrhous, spp. nn. The first 
from Peru, allied to II. violifera, the second from Columbia, allied to H, 
clarissce and Ileliotrgplia parzudahii, the third from Ecuador, allied to Helio^ 
master longirostris, the fourth supposed to be from Peru, and allied to X. 
gouldi, the fifth from Ecuador, allied to E. aurelice \ and the sixth, from the 
Amazons^ has been before named (P. Z. S. 1867, pp. '684, 762). J. Gould, 
P.Z.S. 1871, pp. 603-505. 
Spathura [potius Steganura] solstitialis, sp. n., from Ecuador. Id. Ann, N« 
H. (4) viii. pp. 61, 62. 
Eupherusa poliocerca and Cganomgia viridifrons, spp. nn., from Mexico : the 
first allied to E. egregia. B. G. Elliot, tom. cit. pp. 266, 267. 
Ileliotrgplia harrali, Thalurania lerchi, Hglocharis magica, and Eorgfera 
euplirosgnce, spp. nn., from Columbia, NW Granada, Lower California, and 
Ecuador respectively. E. Mulsant & J. Verreaux, Ann. Soc. L. Lyon, xviii. 
pp. 106, 108, 110, and 319. 
Eihgenes spectahilis (Zool. Rec. iv. p. 91) distinct from E. fulgens. G. N# 
Lawrence, i^n. Lyc. N. Y. x. p. 140. 
Eustephanus stokesi is E. fernandensis P. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1871, 
p. 180. 
PASSERES. 
PlTTIDAE. 
Melampitta, subgen. nov., differs froin Pitta in the shape of its wings and 
the velvety plumes of the face. The type is 
M. luguhris, sp. n., from New Guinea. H. Schlegel, N. T. D. iv. p, 47. - 
Pitta novce-guinece. Its variatipiis m ^l^e different Papuan Islands. Id* 
tom. cit, p. 16, 
