AVES. 113 
Ilypsipetes nicohariensis is figured. A. v. Pelzeln, Reise Novara, Vogel, 
tab. iii. fig. 2. 
Copsychiis sechellarum is an apparently imdescribed species from the 
Seychelles, perhaps allied to C. pica from Madagascar, but glossy black all 
over, except the upper wing-coverts, which are white. A. Newton, Ibis, 
1865, pp. 331-333, pi. viii. 
Otocompsa fuscicaudata is described as a new species from Southern India, 
where it is very common. It differs from O. cmeria of Bengal and O.jocosa 
of China in the uniform colour of the tail. J. Gould, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 664. 
Lxus xanthapygius from Palestine, its habits described. H. B. Tristram, 
Ibis, 1865, pp. 81, 82. 
SYLVIIDiE. 
Fatio, V. Distribution verticale des Sylviadees en Suisse. 
Bull. Soc. Orn. Suisse, 1865, pp. 39-67. 
. A notice of this paper is contained under the heading 
" Palsearctic Region.^^ 
irania jinoti. The generic and specific characters of this entirely new form 
of Saxicoline bird, first described in 1863 or 1864, are again repeated. F. de 
Filippi, Viagg. Pers. p. 347. 
Bradyornis spekii^ Ilartl. (P. Z. S. 1863, p. 105), is identical with Cichla^ 
dusa arquata, Peters (Monatsb. Berlin Akad. Wiss. 16 March, 1863), 
which name has the priority. G. Hartlaub, Ibis, 1865, pp, 546, 547. 
Saxicola spectnlnlis is a new species from South Africa. G. Hartlaub, 
P. Z. S. 1865, pp. 428, 429, pi. xxiii. Particulars of its habits, E. L. Layard, 
op. cit. pp. 619, 620. 
Saxicola castor and S. poUux are two new species from South Africa. The 
last is smaller than the first, with longer tail, wings, and legs, white under 
tail-coverts, and the rectrices differently coloiued. G. Hartlaub, op. cit. 
pp. 746, 747. 
Saxicola capistrata is described and figured as new. It is S. leucomela^ 
Jerdon (nec Pallas). J. Gould, B. As. part xvii. 
Saxicola montana, from Afghanistan, is described and figured as new. 
Idenif loc. cit. 
Saxicola leucomela, Pall., and S. deserti are also figured. Idetn^ loc. cit. 
Dromoleea clmjso^yygia, the characters of this species, described as new in 
1863 or 1864, are repeated. F. de Filippi, Viagg. Pers. pp. 347, 348. 
Dromolisa picata and 7>. opistholeuca are figured. J. Gould, B. As. 
part xvii. 
Melanodryas is the name proposed for a new genus consisting of the Pied 
Robins, of which at least two species inhabit Australia.” J. Gould, Handb. 
B. Austral, i. p. 283. 
Melanodryas picta'^ is described as a new species fi*om North-western 
Australia, the representative of Petroeca cucidlata (Lath.) (P. hicolor, Gould, 
olim)j which it is very like in colour and general form, but than which it is 
much smaller. A specimen from Port Essington probably indicates the ex- 
istence of a third species of the group. J. Gould, op. cit. p. 285. 
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