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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE . 
Poospiza ccesar IS described and figured as a new species from Peru, some- 
thing like P. thoracica, but with distinct white superciliaries and no chestnut 
on the flanks. P. L. Sclater & O. Salvin, tom. cit. p. 152, pi. xiii. 
Phrygilus gayi and P. aldunatii are carefully differentiated. lid. Ibis, 1869, 
pp. 285^ 286. 
Zmotrichia pileata may be the immature form of Z. canicapilla. lid. tom. 
cit. pp. 284, 285. 
Zonitrichia albicoUis, its occurrence near Aberdeen in 1867. W. 0. Angus, 
Proc. N. H. Soc. Glasgow, i. (1869) pp. 209-211, pi. hi. Reprinted, Zool. 
S. S. pp. 1547-1549. [C/: Ibis, 1870, p. 265.] 
Zonotrichia melanotis (Zool. Rec. iv. p. 108) should be placed in the genus 
HcBmophilaj and much resembles II. rit/icauda, Bp., but differs in many 
respects, as it also does from II. humeralis, Cab., with which it had been 
thought to be possibly identical. G. N. Lawrence, Proc. Ac. N. S. Pliilad. 
1868 (not published till 1869), p. 862. 
Melospiza insignis is described and figured as a new species, or at least a 
strongly marked race from Kadiak, allied to M. melodia, but apparently very 
distinct in its much larger size and darker colours, longer bill, and lack of 
spots or their confluence. S. F. Baird, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sc. i. p. 319 j 
W. H. Dali, tom. cit. p. 285. 
Pyrgisorna : — ^The five known species are enumerated, and P. cabinisi (Zool. 
Rec. V. p. 91) and P. kieneri are figured. P. L. Sclater & 0. Salvin, Ex. 
Orn, pp. 129, 130, pi. Ixv. 
Crithagra Jlavivcrtcx is a now species from Abyssinia. W. T. Blanford, 
Ann. & Mag. N. II. 4th ser. iv. p. 330. [Allied to C. butyracea (L.) and C. 
canicollis, Swains,, but differing from the first by the yellow forehead being 
broader and gradually passing to olivaceous on the crown j and from the 
second by the back and sides of the neck being olive and the forehead and 
under parts being brighter. It is greener, larger, and with a less conical 
bill than Serums aurifrons (Zool. Rec. i. p. 85), and has a smaller bill and 
wings, and is more vellow than C. chloropsiSf Cab. Id. Geol. & Zool. Abyss. 
* (1870), p. 414, pi. vii.] 
Crithagra imberbis is described and figured as a new species, probably from 
Zanzibar, smaller than C. butyracea^ but with a bill as strong, and character- 
ized by the want of any dark markings on the head, J. Cabanis. J. f. O. 
1868 [published in 1869], p. 412 and note j Id. Von der Decken’s Reisen, iii. 
1, p. 30, pi. ix. [Originally described as C. chloropsis j but that name being 
occupied by a species of Bonaparte’s, it was changed for that given above.] 
Xanthodira Jlavigula, Sundev., has occurred near Graham’s Town, Cape 
Colony. E. L. Layard, Ibis, 1869, p. 371. 
Coccothraustes vulgaris has occurred in India. A. Hume, tom. cit. p. 456. 
Ligurinus chloris (cum nid. & pull.) is figured. J. Gould, B. Gr. Br. pt. xv. 
Leucosticte littoralis is described and figured as a new species from British 
Columbia and Alaska, much resembling L. griseinucha (for which it seems 
to have been figured, Elliot, B. N. Am, i. pi. 11), but considerably smaller; 
its colours, too, are brighter and lighter, the bill shorter and more conical, 
the dark patch on the head more restricted, the chin more ash-coloured, and 
the rose-colour of the head less forward. From L. tcphrocotis it is distin- 
guished by the extension of the ash-colour below the eyes, and from L. cam- 
pestris by having the ear-coverts ash-colom’ed and more grey on the chin. 
