62 Avcs. 
AVES. 
Pratincola torquata figured ; A. Milne-Edwards & A. Grandidier, Ois. 
Madagasc. Atlas, ii. pi. cxxxii. ; skeletou, pi. cxxxiv. 
Prinia hypoxantha, sp. n., T. Salvador!, Aun. Mus. Genov, xiv. p. 235, 
Sungei Bulu, Sumatra. 
Reguloidea superciliosusj R. humii^ and R. suhviridis : further observa- 
tions on; W. E. Brooks, Str. Feath. vii. [March, 1879] p. 476. R. humii 
var. ; J. Scully, op. cit. viii. p. 308, Nepal. R. humii : further observa- 
tions on ; W. E. Brooks, tom. cit. p. 385. R. mandellii, sp. n., id. tom. cit. 
pp. 389-393, Darjeeling. Diagnostic table of the genus, 1. c. 
Suya superciliaris figured: J. Anderson, Yunnan Exp. ii- pi. li. 
Sylvia: remarks on the genus; H. Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, pp. 308-317, 
S. deserticola, Trist., and S. melanothorax, Trist,, both appear to be valid 
although neglected species ; id. 1. c. S. nisoria ; exhibition of a specimen 
believed to have been killed at Cambridge about forty years ago ; A- 
Newton, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 219. 
Sylviella leucopsis, sp. n., A. Reichenow, Orn. Centralbl. 1879, p. 114, 
Kibaradja, East Africa. 
Thamnohia quadrivirgata, sp. n., id. tom. cit. p. 114, and J. f. O. 1879, 
p. 355, Kipini, East Africa. 
Thamnornis chloropetoides figured ; A. Milne-Edwards & A. Grandidier, 
Ois. Madagasc. Atlas, ii. pi. cxxviii. fig. 2. 
Mniotiltid^. 
Basileuterus cabanisi, sp. n., H. v. Berlepsch, Orn. Centralbl. 1879, p. 63, 
and J. f. O. 1879, p. 207, Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. 
Dendrceca petechia var. melanoptera is the form found in Guadeloupe 
and also in Dominica, West India ; G. N. Lawrence, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 
i. p. 463. D.ccerulea: on its nest and eggs; J. A. Allen, Bull. Nutt. 
Orn. Club, iv. p. 25. D. chrysoparia the fourth known specimen obtained 
in Texas ; H. A. Purdie, tom. cit. p. 60 : its nesting there and eggs 
described ; W. Brewster, tom. cit. p. 77. 
VlREONID^, 
Oyclorrhis contrerasi, sp. n., L. Taczanowski, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 224, 
figured, pi. xxi., Tambillo, Northern Peru. 
Vireo atricapillus : its distribution, habits, and nesting ; W. Brewster, 
Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv. pp. 99-103. Note on and figure ; E. Cones, 
tom. cit. p. 193, pi. i. 
Motacilltd^. 
Henicurus rujidorsalis, sp. n., distinguished from H. rujicapillus ; R. B, 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 255, Cawas River, North- we.stern Borneo. 
Motacilla Jlaviventrh figured (pi. cxxxiii.), skeleton (pi. cxxxiv.) ; A. 
Milne-Edwards & A. Grandidier, Ois. Madagasc. Atlas, ii. 
Tmetothylacus, g. n. : type, Macronyx tenellus\ J. Cabanis, J. f. 0. 1879, 
p. 438. 
