PASSERES. 
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FRINGILLIDiE. 
Russ, K. Ziir Oharakteristik einiger fremdlandischen Finken. J. f. O. 
1871, pp. 14-20. 
Notes on various exotic species in confinement. 
ScLATER, P, L. A revision of the Fringillino genus Spcrmophila. Ibis, 
1871, pp. 1-23, pis. i. & ii. 
A monograph in the author’s usual excellent style. He first gives a syno- 
nymic and diagnostic list of the 24 species known to him, dividing them into 
two ^tow^B{iyyrrhomelan€S and hucomelanoi\ the characters of which are further 
indicated by a key, and then follow remarks on other described species of the 
genus not known to the author, the whole being concluded by a notice of 
the geographical distribution of these birds throughout the four Neotropical 
Subregions which they inhabit. A very considerable number of nominal 
species are herein destroyed. It is only necessary now to mention that 
S. atriceps (Zool. Rec. iv. p. 107) is united with S. torqueolaj S. Jiicksi, S. for- 
tipes, and S. collaris (Zool. Rec. ii. pp. 118, 119) with 8. aiirita^ and that 
S. hadiiventris (Joe. cit.) is S. corvina. As this result is obtained after exami- 
nation of the types, the determinations can scarcely be erroneous. The 
species figured are S. nigrorufa, cf & $ , jnleata) S. aurita, and S. ocellata. 
Dolospmgus, gen. nov., allied to Spermophila, the type being 
D. michaUs, sp. n., from the Oronoco. D. G. Elliot, tom. cit. pp. 402-403, 
pi. xi. 
Fringilla mmitifringilla figured. R. B. Sharpe & H. E. Dresser, B. Eur. pt. vii. 
Passer ouratensis^ David,” sp. n., from North China. R. Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 
1870, p. 430. 
Passer ammodendri, sp. n., from Turkestan. C. Dode, op. cit. 1871, p. 481. 
Montifringilla rujicollis, sp, n., from Sikkim. W. T. Blanford, P. As. Soc. 
Beng. 1871, p. 227. 
Spermospiza heematina not distinct from S. guttata. R. B. Sharpe, Ann. 
N. H. (4) viii. pp. 237, 238. 
Poliospiza striaticeps, Hartl., identified with Linaria gularis, A. Smith, 
1836. Id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 68. 
Poliospiza crocopygia, sp. n., from Damara Land, like P. xanthopygid^ but 
larger : Id. Ibis, 1871, p. 101. Referred to Crithagra : Id. Ann. N. H. (4) 
viii. p. 235. 
Crithagra hucoptera, sp. n., from South Africa. C. alhogularis^ its syno- 
nymy. Id. he. cit. 
Xanthodira dentata and X. pyrqita (head only) figured. M. T. von Heuglin 
Orn. N.-O. Afr. tab. xxi. rt. 
Ligurinus chloroticus in Spain. H. Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 219. 
Chloroptila, gen. nov., proposed for 
Fringilla dtrinellaj which is but rare in Italy. T. Salvador!, Atti Acc. Tor. 
vii. p. 260. 
Serinus pusillus. Notes on its plumage by M. A. H. Bdtant. E. Bal- 
damus, J. f. 0. 1871, pp. 229, 230. 
Propasser saturatusj sp. n., from Sikkim. W. T. Blanford, P. As. Soc. 
Beng. 1871, p. 216. 
Procarduelis r'ubescens, sp. n., from Sikkim, allieii to P. nipalensis. Id. 
P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 691-695, pi. Ixxiv. 
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