ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
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^ Pardalotus affinis and other species of the genus, further notes (Zool. Her 
cord, ii. p. 105) on their plumage. E. P. Ramsay, Ibis, 1864, pp, 126, 127, 
TlMALIID.aS. 
Stachyrhis 'prcecognitm is a new species from Formosa [very like ri^cepSf 
but with a darker head and striped throat]. To this bird belonged the nest 
and eggs attributed (Ibis, 1863, p. 306) to Calamoherpe minuta. R. Swinhoe^ 
Ibis, 1866, pp. 309-311. • . 
Pomatorhinus temporalis and P. superciliosus, their mode of breeding de- 
scribed and eggs figured. E. P. Ramsay, Proc. Phil. Soc. Sydn. 1865, pp, 
316-319, pi. ii. figs. 1, 2. . 
Actinodura egertoni and A, nipalensis are figured. J. Gould, B. As, 
part xviii. 
Alethe striaticollis is a new species from the Gaboon, typical in form, and 
indeed hardly to be distinguished generically from Napothera,. G, Hartlaub, 
J. f. 0. 1866, p. 37. 
Cuphopterus is a new genus *, established by Br. Hartlaub, of which the 
principal characters seem to be a moderate bill, somewhat rounded, keeled, 
and scarcely notched, the culmen defiexed towards the tip, the.gonys ascend-, 
ing, scarcely any bristles ; wings short, extending a little beyond the base of 
the tail, the first remex spurious, the fourth longest, the fifth scarcely shorter j 
tail longish ; feet stout j tarsus longish and scutellated j exterior and interior 
toes nearly equal j claws small and weak. The type is 
“ C, dohrni, Ilartl.,” a new species from Ilha do Principe, Bight of Bonin. 
H. Dohrn, P. Z. S. 1866, pp. 326, 327, pi. xxxiv. j J. G. Keulemans, N. T. D, 
iii. pp. 386, 387, 
HiRUNDINIDiE, 
Ilirundo ceqimtonalis is described as a new species from Ecuador, resem- 
bling H. albiventris from Brazil, but of a lighter green, with scarcely any 
bluish shade j the wings and rump more conspicuously white. It also is 
smaller, and has a very much narrower bill. G. N. Lawrence, Ann, Lyc. 
New York, 1866, pp. 400, 401. 
Ilirundo riocouri has occurred in England. J. H. Gurney, Jun., Ibis, 1866, 
p. 423. 
Ilirundo Jilifera is figured. J. Gould, B. As. part xviii. 
' Cotyle equeSy Ilartl.,” is a new species from Ilha do Principe, Bight of Benin. 
II. Dohrn, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 325. 
ORIOLIDiE. 
. Sphecotheres australis and S. jlavtiventris are figured. S. Biggies, Orn. 
Austral, part ii. 
ViREONIDiE. 
■ Lanivireo is a proposed subgenus of Vireosylvia with V. Jlavifrons as its 
type. S. F. Baird, Rev. Am. B. pp. 326, 346-350. 
• * Br. Hartlaub has kindly informed us by letter that in the Bremen Mu- 
seum this singular form has been placed next to Alethe. No hint of its affi- 
nities is conveyed in the description. Dr. Bohrn’s note states that its song 
is like that of Sylvia cinerea. The attitude and accessories of the figure 
might induce the opinion, doubtless an erroneous one, that it was allied to 
Anthits ! . . . ’ 
