90 
ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Alauda calandra said to have again occurred in England. J. H. Gurney, 
Jun.,Zool.S.S. p.1599. 
Alauda arvensis (cum nid. & pull.) and Calandrella hrachydactyla are 
figured. J. Gould, B. Gr. Br. pt. xv. 
Alauda arhorea is figured. Id. op. cit. pt. xvi. 
Alauda pispolettd (Pall.), its synonymy. Ld. Walden, Ibis, 1869, p. 213, 
note. 
Galerita maororhyncha, Tristr. (Ibis, 1859, p. 67), occurs in Morocco. 0. 
F. Tyrwhitt Brake, Ibis, 1869, p. 1 53. 
Alcemon jessii is proposed as the name of a new species from Abyssinia, to 
be described in the Zoological ^ Transactions ’ ! O. Finsch, P. Z. S. 18*69, p. 430. 
ICTERID^. 
Cassicus icteronotus, notes on, from the Spanish of Dr. Castro. 0. Fauvel, 
Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm. 1868, pp. 165-161. 
Icterus aheillcei is figured, and a diagnostic list given of the three species of 
the section Ilyphantes, to which it belongs. P. L. Sclater & O. Salvin, Ex. 
Orn. pp. 187, 188, pi. xciv. 
Icterus auratus, Bp., and allied species, notes on. G. N. Lawrence, Ann. 
Lyc. N. H. New York, 1869, pp. 271-273. 
Molulrus [vulgo Mulothrusl sericeus (Licht.), notes on its mode of breeding. 
0. Sternberg, with additional remarks by J. Cabanis, J. f. 0. 1869, pp. 126- 
136. [See “Oology.”] 
Molothi'its pecoris, its habits. T. M. Trippe, Am. Nat. iii. pp. 291-294 j 
H. S. Kedney, tom. cit. p. 550. 
Quiscalus forth’ostris is described as a new species from Barbadoes, nearest 
to Q. luyubris, Swains., in size, but rather smaller, with a bill wider and 
fully one-third higher at the base, a less violet gloss, and shorter and more 
slender legs. G. N. Lawrence, Proc. Ac. N. S. Philad. 1868 (not published 
tiU 1869), p. 360. 
Quiscahis : — The smaller species of the United States, 8 in number, aro 
minutely characterized, and outline figures of their wing and bill given. B. 
Ridgway, op. git. 1869, pp. 133-136. 
Sturnid^e. 
Stumus vulgaris^ on its faculty of thought. A. Baron Hoyningen-Huene, 
X f.0. 1869, pp. 266, 256. 
Gracula kreffii is described and figured as a new species from the Solomon 
Islands, very like G. dumonti, but much larger, with a longer tail and no 
yellow on the middle of the belly. P. L. Sclater, P. Z.S. 1869, pp. 120, 121, 
pi. ix. 
Ptilonoi'hynchus [lege Ptilorhynchus'] ratvnslgyi (Zool. Bee. iv. p. Ill) is * 
figured. J. Gould, B. Austral. Suppl. pt. v. 
Lamprotornis amethystina, Heugl. (J. f. 0. 1863, p. 20, 1864, p. 257) is 
referred to Lamprocolius, and is regarded as a conspecies of L. auratus 
(Gmel.), under the name of X. auratus orientalis. M. T. v. Ileuglin, J. f. O. 
1869, p. 7. 
