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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
A few remarks on the destruction of singing-birds by the Italians, which 
helps to depopulate south-western Germany, 
Saxicola leuco})ygia (A. E. Brehm) is S. leucocephala (A. E. Brehm) at a 
less advanced age, and S, pallida, Blipp., is S. monacha, Biipp., $ . E. 0. 
Taylor, Ibis, 1807, pp. 68, 69. 
Saxicola erythropygia is the name proposed for a bird very like S. philo- 
thamna, Tristr., but having the rectrices white, broadly tipped with black, 
and the rump chestnut-red. Id. ut supra, pp. 60, 61. 
Saxicola and Dromolcca. Notes on the different species in Palestine. 
H. B. Tristram, Ibis, 1867, pp. 91-97. 
Dromolcca nigra appears to be described as a new species from the Alge- 
rian Sahara. — Loche, Expl. scient. de I’Alg. Ois. i. pp. 200, 201. 
Dromolcea alhipileata is described as a new species from Dombe, West 
Africa ; very like D. monticola, Vieill. ? ” (of which a description is also 
given), but larger, with the whole head and nape pure white, a longer tail, 
and the external rectrix white on both sides. J. V. Barboza du Bocage, 
Jom. Scienc. Lisboa, 1867, p. 161. Referred to D. cequatorialis, Hartl. (J. 
f. 0. 1861, p. 112). Id. tom. cit. p. 838. 
Mhodophila melanoleuca, Jerdon, is referred to the genus Oreicola, Bp. j and 
its specific name being already occupied there, it is proposed to be called O. 
jerdoni. E. Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 14. 
Ftatincola horhonica is described as a new species from Reunion. A. 
Grandidier, R, Z. 1867, pp. 88, 369. Identified with Motacilla horhonica, 
Bory de St. Vincent. H. Schlegel & F. Pollen, Rech. Faun. Madag. pp. 93, 
94. 
Muticilla , specimens from Loando and Benguela are doubtfully de- 
scribed as belonging to a new species, but left unnamed. J. V. Barboza du 
Bocage, Jom. Sc. Lisboa, 1867, p. 136. Referred to Saxicola familiaris, Bp. : 
Id. tom. cit. p. 338. 
Cyanecula suecica (Zool. Rec. iii. p. 96) seen again in the Isle of Wight, 
17th Sept. 1866. II. Iladfield, Zoologist, S. S. pp. 732, 733. Not again ob- 
served. Id. tom. cit. p. 821. 
Luscinia philomela is figured. J. Gould, B. Gr. Br. part xi. 
Tarsiger cucidlatus, Gould,” is described as a new species. E. Blyth, 
Ibis, 1867, p. 16. Identified with Pogonocichla stellata (Vieill.) (P. margarita, 
Sundevall). G. R. Gray, tom. cit. p. 884. 
Callenc alhiventris, Fairbank,” is a new species from the Pulney Hills in 
Southern India, similar in form to C. rujiventris, Blyth, but smaller and 
differing widely in colour, being much bluer above, with a distinct light blue, 
almost whitish, frontal band, and having no trace of the ferruginous abdo- 
men. C. frontalis is larger still, with a longer tail, and has the frontal band 
darker blue and the abdomen grey. W. T, Blanford, P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 832- 
834, pi. xxxix. 
Irania Jinoti (Zool. Rec. ii. p. 113) is said to be Bessornis alhigularis $ 
(Zool. Rec. i. p. 80 ; iii. p. 96), of which species both sexes are figured. II. 
B, Tristram, Ibis, 1867, pp. 89-91, pi. i. [It is supposed also to be identical 
with Cossypha gutturalis, Gu^r. (R. Z. 1843, p. 162), Ferret & Galinier, Voy. 
Abyss, iii. pp. 201, 202 ; Atlas, Zool. pi. 5, from Abyssinia ! T. Salvadori, 
Atti Accad. Sc. Torino, 1868, p. 286.] 
Campicola livingstonii is a new species from the Zambesi, where it repre- 
