6J Aves. 
AVE3. 
Lmaria brunnescens, sp. n,, distinguished from L. hornemanni ; E. F. v. 
Ilomeyer, J. f. O. 1879, p. 184, Lapland. L. sihirica^ Sevezow (in litt.) 
[sic], sp. n., id. tom. cit. p. 185, Siberia. 
Loxia atrata, sp. n., E. F. v. Homeyer, tom. cit. p. 179, North America. 
LoxigiUa violacea ^ hahamensis : new name for the Bahama form ; 
R. Ridgway, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 250. 
Loxioides hailleui discussed and figured ; P. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1879, p. 90, 
pi. ii. 
Melospiza melodes and its allies ; H. W. Henshaw, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 
Club, iv. pp. 155-160. 
Passer domesticus, subsp. n, caucasicus\ M. Bogdanow, Tr. Soc. Kazan, 
viii. 4, p. 59, Caucasus. P. domesticus: on the evils of its introduction 
into America ; E. Cones, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. v. pp. 175-193. 
Passer cidus princeps [on the characters distinguishing it from P. 
savanme] ; W. A. Jeffreys, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv. pp. 103-106. 
Peiicoea ruficeps : its habits and distribution ; W. Brewster, tom. cit. 
pp. 47 & 48. P. illinoensis, sp. n., R. Ridgway, tom. cit. p.219, Southern 
Illinois and Central Texas. 
Plectrofringilla, g. n. : type. Passer alpicola, Pall. ; M. Bogdanow, Tr. 
Soc. Kazan, viii. 4, p. 67. 
Salicipgsser, g. n. : type, Passer montanus ; id. tom. cit. p. 60. 
Urocgnchramus pylzowi figured ; J. Gould, B. Asia, pt. xxxi. 
CCEREBIDJ]. 
Dacnis pulcherrima aureinucha : new name for the Ecuador form ; 
R. Ridgway, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 484. 
Tana GRID AC. 
Buarremon elceoprorus, sp. n., P. L. Sclater & O. Salvin, P. Z. S. 1879, 
p. 604, Medellin and Sta. Elena, Antioquia ; egg figured pi. xlii, fig. 7. 
B. melanolcemus, sp. n., iu/., Ibis, 1879, p. 425, figured pi. x. fig. 2, Andes of 
Cuzco. B. spodionotus, sp. n., iid. 1. c. figured pi. x. fig. 1, Ecuador. B. 
comptus^ sj). n., iid. tom. cit. p. 426, Maravina, Ecuador. B. inornatus^ 
sp. n., iid. tom. cit. p. 427, Ecuador. B. latinuchus figured, iid. 1. c. pi. x. 
fig. 1. 
Callithraupis^ g. n. : type, Pyranga cyanictera^ Vieillot ; H. v. Bei’- 
lepsch, Orn. Ceutralbl. 1879, p. 63, and J. f. O. 1879, p. 206. 
Euchcetes. This generic name having been used in entomology, it is 
proposed to change it into Calochcetes* ] P. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1879, p. 388. 
Nemosia inornata, sp. n., L, Taczanowski, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 228, 
Northern Peru. 
Ploceidac. 
AEgintha duhringi^ sp. n., O. Russ, Gefied. Welt, 1878, pp. 299 & 311, 
Benguela. [Not seen by the Recorder.] 
Calochostis [Oalli-], Bigot, Insecta, 1877. — Ed. 
