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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Ficus alhipes is a new species from Brazil, l)elonging to the same group as 
P. affinis, Swainson, P. selysi, Malherbe, and other species, hut differing from 
them hy having the bill white, blacldsh at the tip, the feet whitish, the claws 
dusky at the tip. The female only is known. Idem, op. cit. p. 37. 
Gecinulus virulis, Blyth, from Burmah, is called Ficus scotochlorus. Idem, 
op. cit. p. 48, 
Chrysopicus mcdherhii, Cassin, is called Ficus imherhis. Idem, op. cit. p. 68. 
Colaptcs me.vicanoides, Lafresnaye, is called Ficus suhmexicanus. Idem, op. 
cit. p. 72. 
Ficus Jlavilumhis is difterentiated from P. icteromelas, Vieillot, but scarcely 
admitted to specific rank. It is the size of the species just named, but in co- 
lour is like Chrysopicus chrysomelas, Malherbe. It is from Brazil. Idem, op. 
cit. pp. 74, 75. 
Ficus squamiyularis appears to be a new species from Malacca. It is per- 
haps Ficus badius, Jerdon, from the same locality (tiec Bafilcs, which is an 
inch longer). Idem, op. cit. pp. 89, 90. 
Gecinus camis and G. viridis, observations on their habits. D. II. Snell, 
Zoolog. Garten, I8GG, pp. 137-142. 
Ficus major and P. viridis, variations in their plumage. T. E. Gunn, 
Zoologist, S. S. p. 271. 
Ficus major, F. medius, F. minor, F. martins, and P. viridis, observations 
on their anatomy from Nitzsch’s MSS. C. Giebel, Zeitschr. gesammt. Naturw. 
xvii. pp. 447-485. ^ 
Melanerpcs formicivorus, in the autumn, selects, for storing away, acorns 
only which are infested by maggots, to serve as food for the young. The 
acorns are driven into the holes prepared for them, so as to prevent the escape 
of the maggot when it comes to maturity, and imprison it until wanted in 
the following spring. C. T. Jackson, Proc. Boston Soc. N. II. x. p. 227. Its 
provident habits doubted. J. K. Lord, Nat. Vancouver Isl. i. pp. 289-292. 
Sphyrapicus thyroideus is figured, I). G. Elliot, B. N. Am. part ii. 
Asyndesmus is a new genus established for the reception of Ficus torquatus, 
Wils. Its most essential features are found in the unusual texture of the 
feathers of the under parts and nuchal collar, which have their fibres longer 
than usual and remarkably stiff, and the fibrillae on their terminal portion of 
very peculiar character. E. Cones, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1866, p. 55. 
Ficumnus micromeyas is a new species from Brazil, of large size, gigas in- 
ter nanos,” and forms of itself the tribe of ‘‘ Ficumni enormes.” C. J. Sunde- 
vall, Consp. Av. Picin. pp. 95, 9G. 
Fictimnus asterias is a now species from Brazil, dusky above, beneath black, 
thickly spotted with white. Idem, op. cit. p. 97. 
Ficumnus spiloyaster is a new species from Guiana, grey above, whitish be- 
neath, regularly barred on the throat, and on the belly longitudinally spotted 
with black. It is F. minutus, Cabanis and Heine {nec Linn.). Idem, op. cit. 
pp. 100, 101. 
Ficumnus yidtifer, F. squamifer, and F. sayittatvs are new species,— the first 
(which in markings resembles F. orhiytiyanus) from the interior of Brazil, 
the second from Surinam, and the third from Brazil. Idem, op. cit. pp. 
101-103. 
Ficumnus nehidosus is a new species from South America. Idem, op. cil 
pp. 103, 104. . . 
