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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Troglodytid^. 
Thryothorus brunneus is described as a new species from Greytown, Nica- 
ragua. G. N. Lawrence, Aim. Lyc. N. Y. 1865, pp. 179, 180. 
CerthiiDuE. 
Tichodroma muraria, its habits in confinement and at large. A. Girtan- 
ner. Bull. Soc. Orn. Suisse, i. pp. 126-131. Translated from Verhandl. der 
St. Gallischen naturw. Gesellsch. 1863-64, 
SiTTIDiE. 
Sclater, P. L. Notes on Kriiper^s Nuthatch, and on the 
other known Species of the Genus Sitta. Ibis, 1865, pp. 
306-311, pi. vii. 
The author characterizes and figures the Sitta kruepei'i of 
Von Pelzeln from Asia Minor, which is a very distinct species, 
its black cap, chestnut pectoral band, and small size separating 
it at once from all other Old-World birds of the genus. He 
afterwards remarks on the other species of the group, of which 
he enumerates twelve, adding short details of their distribution 
and synonymy. S. formosa is quite isolated. He follows Prof. 
Blasius in not allowing the specific distinction of S. ccesia, S. 
advena, and S. europcBaj to which he also refers the specimens 
collected in Palestine by Mr. Tristram and called by him 
(P. Z. S. 1864, p. 433) S. kriieperi.^^ The author also refuses 
to admit the Sitta aculeata as distinct from S. carolinensis. 
To this last the Asiatic S. leucopsis is most nearly allied, having 
a black head and nape ; the latter character is wanting in S, 
krueperi. 
Sitta villosa is a new species fr'om North China, having a great resem- 
blance to S. cmadensiSf but distinguished by its long and silky plumage. It 
belongs to the black-capped gi’oup (vide supra), J, Verreaux, Nouv. Arch, 
du Museum, Bull. i. p. 78, pi. v. fig. 1. 
PARIDiE. 
Parus afer from Benguela is much smaller than southern specimens. G. 
Hartlaub. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 88. 
Parus hudsonicus, var. littoralis, is described from Nova Scotia. It differs 
fr’om the type in size quite as much as do P. carolinensis and P. atricapilluSf 
and in colour as the latter and P. scptentrionalis. II. Bryant, Proc. Boston 
Soc. N. H. ix. pp. 368, 369. 
Parus alpestrisy Bailly, does not differ from P. borealis, De Selys, but is 
specifically distinct from P. palustris. V. Fatio, Bull. Soc. Orn. Suisse, 1865, 
pp. 79-93, tab. ii. figg. 1-3. 
• Parus cyaneus is figured. 0. J. Sundevall, Sv. Fogl. pi. Ixviii. 
Lophoplianes atricristatus occurs near Vera Cruz in Mexico. P. L. Sclater, 
P. Z. S. 1865, p. 397. 
