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smaller and has the scarlet plumage of P. speciostts. R. C. Beavan, Ihis^l867, 
p. 322. Closely resembling P. xanthogastcr (Raffles). Lcl. Walden, he. cit. 
Mimus {Leucomimi(s) polgglottus, vai*. hahamensis is doubtfully described 
from Inagua in the Bahamas ; but the differences are said to be very slight. 
H. Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. II. 1866, p. 68. 
M. polyglottusy var. dominicus, is described from St. Domingo. Id. tom. cit. 
p. 93. 
Mimus caruncidatus ” (Zool. Rec. iii. p. 93) is referred to the genus An- 
thoclucray and called A. hulleri. O. Finsch, J. f. 0. 1867, pp. 342, 343. 
Criniger tristis is a riew species from Malacca, the size of C. rujicaudatus 
(sc. phceocephalus') , but with a smaller bill. E. Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 47 : 0. 
Finsch, J. f. 0. 1867, p. 18. 
Finsch, Otto. Ueber die Arten iind das Genus Criniger. 
Journ. fiir Orn. 1867, pp. 1-36. 
An excellent monograph, and of great utility to the student 
of the group. The author recognizes 30 species and gives their 
diagnoses. Three arc new : — 
Criniger charlottce [lege carlottaf\ from Borneo and Sumatra, like C. iristisy 
Blyth (Ibis, 1865, p. 47), but with the tail whole-coloured. Id. ut supra, pp. 
10 and 19; 
C. hemmeleni from Borneo, with loral streak and under parts yeUowish- 
white, the rectrices with white tips on their inner webs. It is Tricliopho- 
roropsis typus, Bp. 0. R. 1854, p. 69. Id. ut supra, pp. 11 and 29; and . 
C. chloris from Ilalmaheira, Batchian, and Morty, like C. affinis, Hombr. 
&; Jacq., but having no yellow tip to the tail, and narrower loral streaks. It 
is C. snujlcx, Wallace (nec Tomm.), Ibis, 1862, p. 320, and C. Jlavicaudus, Q. 
R. Gray {iiec. Bp.), P. Z. S. 1860, p. 351 ; Id. ut suprk, pp. 12 and 36. 
. Nachtrag zur Monographic des Genus Criniger. Tom^ 
cit. pp. 107, 108. 
The author adds notices of two additional species to those in- 
cluded in the first paper. 
lole virescens, Blyth (J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 673), is to be called I. viridescens, 
since Ixus virescens, Temni., should be referred to lole, and this name has 
priority. E. Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 7. 
Cinclocerthia rujicauda, C. macrorhynclia (Zool. Rec. iii. p. 94), and C. 
gutturalis are figured. P. L. Sclater and 0. Salvin, Ex. Orn. pis. 10-12. 
CicJdojJsis leucogenys (Zool. Rec. i. p. 79) is figured. lid. ut supra, pi. 19. 
Myiadestes (Zool. Rec. iii. p. 89) ohscurus, M. unicolor, M. ralloides, and M. 
elisahethee are figured. lid. ut supret, pis. 25-28. 
Pctrocossyphus saxatilis, on changes in its plumage. A, von Pelikan, Sit- 
zungsb. z.-b. Gesellsch. Wien, 1867, pp. 117, 118. 
Sylviid^. 
Kuim, — VON. Ueber die Abnahme der Siugvogel im siidwestlichen 
Deutschland. Wiirttemberg. naturwiss. Jahreshefte, 1867, pp. 75, 76. 
* Not to be mistaken for Mimus {Scotiomimus) hahamensis, Bryant, Proc. 
Boston Soc. N. H. vii. p. 114; Baird, Rev. Am. B. i. p. 52. 
