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given of the four species of the section Caryothramtea to which it belongs. 
lid. Ex. Orn. pp. 167, 168, pi. Ixxxiv. 
Ploceida?. 
Hyphantornis hojeri, Hartl. h Finsch,” is a new species from Momhas, 
J. Cabanis, Von der Decken’s Reisen, iii. 1, p. 32. [Further diagnosed, O. 
Finsch h G. Hartlaub, op. cit. iv. p. 402 (1870). It is Xanthophilus aureo-‘ 
Jlavus, Reichenb. Singv. p. 84, fig. 312 (tiec Smith).] 
Hyphantornis atrigidaris is figured. M. T. v. Heuglin, Orn. Nordost-Afr, 
t. xix. 
Tcxtor intermcdius is described and figured as a new species from East 
Africa, midway between the northern T. alecto^ Temm., and the southern T, 
erythrorhynchua, Smith. J. Cabanis, J. f. 0. 1868 (published in 1869), 
p. 413 ) Id. Von der Decken’s Reisen, iii. 1, pp. 32, 33, pi. xi. 
Horne, 0. Notes on Ploceus hay a and its Nest. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, 
pp. 243-246, pi. xii. 
The mode in which it collects materials for its nest and habit of build- 
ing in society described. The plate shows a date-palm in whic)i more than 
seventy nests were built. The mystery of the lump of clay found in each 
is not solved. 
Ploceus mcgarliynclms is a new species from the Indian terai^ closely re- 
sembling P. haydy but nearly double its weight, with a bill fully half as large 
again. A. Hume, Ibis, 1869, p. 366. 
CalypTxantria [sc. Foudia~\ comorensis is described and figured as a new 
species from Mayotte, differing from P. algondce (Zool. Rec. iii. p. 99 j iv. 
p. 107) in its black bill, the greater extension of the red beneath, and the 
white-bordered wing-coverts. In the compressed form of its bill especially 
it agrees more with F. eminentissima, Bp., than with F. madagascariensia (L.). 
J. Cabanis, J. f. O. 1868 (published in 1869), p. 413 ; Id. Von der Hecken’s 
Reisen, iii. 1, pp. 31, 32. 
Nigrita uropygialis and N. emiliai [lege a;miU<F\ are described and figured 
as new species from the Fan tee country ; the former is allied to N. fusconotaj 
but is smaller, and has a pale ochreous rump and longer tail ; the latter is 
allied to N. cinereocajnlla, but is also smaller and has a pale ash-coloured 
instead of a white rump. R. B. Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, pp. 884, 386, pi. xi, 
figs. 1, 2. 
Munia punctidaria (L.), the determination of this and its allied species, 
about which there has been much confusion. Ld. Walden, tom. cit. p. 211, 
note. 
Fringillida;. 
Cnrdinalis igneus (Zool. Rec. iii. p. 99) is referred to C. virginianus. D. 
G. Elliot, B. N. Am. Intr. p. 6. 
Spermophila hadiiventris (Zool. Rec. ii. pp. 118, 119) is figured, S, F, 
Baird, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sc. i. pi. xxviii. fig. 3. 
Neorhynchus is the name given to the genus Callirhynchus, Lesson, which 
is preoccupied in Ichthyology, and the type N. nasesus, as it is suggested 
that the original “ maaesus ” of Bonaparte (C. R. xlii. p. 822) should be 
written, is figured, though on the plate the word is unhappily maseus.^ 
P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 147, pi. xii. 
