tASSliRES. 
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Timalia larvata, S. Miill., is a Stachyrhis. Id. 1. c. 
Ilomochlamys Inscinia is described as a new species from the Philippines 
and China. T. Salvadori, Att. Ac. Tor. 1870, p. 611. 
Pomatorhinm niyrostdlatm is a now spccios from Ilanian, allied to P. 
strididus, but larger, with black pectoral spots. E. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1870, 
p. 250. 
Alcippe hrucii is not distinguishable from A. poiocephala. A. Hume, 
J. A. S. B. 1870, p. 122. 
Oxylahes is a new genus established for Ellisia ? madagascariensis, Harth 
(Faun. Madag, p. 37). E. B. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 38G-8, figs. 
Illadopsis gularis is a new species from Elmina, allied to I. ftdvescem, but 
larger and more rufescent underneath. Id. Ibis, 1870, p. 474. 
Hirundinid^. 
Stelgidopteryx fulvigida (Zool. Eec. ii. p. 106) is S. uropygialis, Lawr. O. 
SaWin, Ibis, 1870, p. 109. 
^ Sharpe, E. B. On the Hirundinid<B of the Ethiopian Eegion. P. Z. S. 1870, 
pp. 286-321. 
{^Thirty-eight species are enumerated, belonging to two subfamilies and to 
seven genera. Atticora ohscura, Temni., is identified with Psalidoprocnc hole- 
inelccna, juv., and Ilirundo alfredi (Zool. Eec. v. p. 81) with Petrochelidon spi- 
lodera (Sund. (Jiif. Sv. Ak. 1860, p. 108). A table of the geographical distri- 
bution is added, in which an attempt is made to divide the region naturally 
into five subregions — the Abyssinian, Mozambican, Cape, Guinean, and Ma- 
dagascarian.^ 
Ilirundo rufida does not differ from II. daurica. E. de Selys-Longchamps, 
Ibis, 1870, p. 463. 
Cotyle eques (Zool. Eec. iii. p. 90) probably identical with C. dneta (Bodd.). 
E. B. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 679. 
Atticora griseopyga is figured. T. v. Heugl. Orn. N. 0. Afr. tab. vii. 
Ilirundo ancliietce (Zool. Eec. iv. p. 96) is II. Jilifera, Steph. J. V. B. du 
Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. ii. p. 351 [cf. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 312]. 
Ilirundo rustica. Some curious stages of plumage through which the spe- 
cies passes when wintering in South Africa pointed out. E. B. Sharpe & H. 
E. Dresser, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 244-249. — Its various forms. O. Finsch & G. 
Hartlaub, Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 134. 
Ilirundo domicdla is a new species from Senegal and North-eastern Africa. 
lid. tom. cit. p. 143. 
Ilirxmdo urhica at Eouen supposed to have improved its style of nest- 
building in the modern part of the town, and hence its power of reason ' 
inferred. A. Pouchet, C. E. 1870, i. pp. 492-496. The pleasing illusion dis- 
pelled by the fact that nests of II. rustica, in the new town, had been mis- 
taken for those of H. urhica, which only builds in the old. M. J. B. Noulet, 
ibid. ii. pp. 77-81. 
Oriolid^e. 
J SiiARPE, E. B. On the Oriolidcc of the Ethiopian Eegion. Ibis, 1870, pp. 
/ ^13-229, pis. vii., viii. 
' /a synopsis giving the full synonymy and diagnosis of each of theeightspecies, 
Oriolus rolleti, Salvadori, is regarded as a small race of O. larvatus, and 
O. harujffii identical with O. hrachyrhynchus, both being figured, as well as O, 
