52 Aves. 
AYES. 
Ann. Mus. Genov, xxvi, pp. 269-271. [Notes on allied species are 
added.] 
Geospiza difficilis [£ $], n. sp. [= G.fortis, auct., pt.], Abingdon and 
Charles Is., Galapagos Is. ; R. B. Siiarpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xii, 
p. 12. 
Guiraca [ cyanea ] argentina , n. subsp., Argentine Rep. ; id. t. c. p. 73. 
Htibia [see beginning of family]. 
Hcemophila mcleodi , n. sp. [£ $], near H. rufescens, El Carmen, 
Mexico ; H. cahooni , n. sp. [ $ $ ], Mts. near Oposura, Sonora, Mexico; 
W. Brewster, Auk, 1888, pp. 93 & 94. 
Linota cannabina figured ; Lord Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. Birds, pt. vii. 
Loxia curvirostra in the Hebrides; H. A. Macpiierson, Zool. 1888, 
pp. 348 & 349 : in Heligoland and at the Spurn in July ; J. Cordeaux, 
Naturalist, 1888, p. 224 : at Holderness in July; W. E. Clarke, ibid. ; 
at Yarmouth in July ; J. H. Gurney, Junr., t. c. p. 330: figured, with 
L. pityopsittacus ; E. H. Giglioli & A. Manzella, Icon. Avif. Ital. pts. 
xxxviii-xl. L. c. minor , notes on its habits; W. H. Fisiier, J. Cinciun. 
Soc. x, pp. 203 & 204. 
Montifringilla nivalis figured ; E. H. Giglioli & A. Manzella, Icon. 
Avif. Ital. pt. xliii. M. blanfordi figured ; R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. xii, pp. 264 & 265, pi. iv. 
Paroaria, heads of all spp. figured ; id. t. c. pi. xvi. P. cucidlata 
[£ and juv.] figured; E. Bartlett, Monogr. Weaver-Birds and 
Finches, pt. i. 
Passer yatii [£] n. sp., W. Afghanistan ; R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. xii, pp. 322 & 323. P. [ domesticus ] griseigularis, n. subsp., 
Candahar ; id. t. c. p. 313. P. saturatus [c/. Zool. Rec. xxii, Aves } p. 38], 
= P. montanus , juv. ; id. t. c. pp. 825 & 826 ; H. Seeboiim, Ibis, 1888, 
p. 235. P. pyrrhonotus figured ; R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xii, 
pp. 316 & 317, pi. v. P. domesticus, P. montanus figured ; Lord Lilford, 
Col. Fig. Br. Birds, pts. vi & ix : the former [ $ $ ] figured ; E. Bartlett, 
Monogr. Weaver-Birds and Finches, pt. ii. 
Peuccea , gen. ; P. rujiceps eremceca cancelled ; P. r. scotti , n. subsp., 
Arizona, New Mexico?, W. Texas?; G. B. Sennett, Auk, 1888, pp. 
40-42 & 401. P. [ rujiceps ] homochlamys n. subsp. [= P. r. boucardi pt.], 
S. New Mexico and Arizona ; R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ixii, 
pp. 713 & 714. The two subspp. said to be identical, the former having 
precedence; Ed. Nature, xxxvii, p. 351. P. ocstivalis bachmani, its nest 
and eggs, curious account of nesting habits ; C. E. Bendire, Auk, 1888, 
pp. 351-356. 
Plaeospiza thomensis [wrongly supposed to be n. g. & sp.], I. of St. 
Thomas, W. Africa [= Buserinus rujilatus, Hartl., r= Poliospiza rufi- 
brunnea , infra ] ; J. v. Barboza du Bocage, J. Sci. Lisb. 1888 [xlvii], 
pp. 148 & 149, cf p. 192. 
Phrygilus [ caniceps ] saturatus, n. subsp. [called P. bolivianus in Syst. 
Index], Bolivia ; R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xii, p. 785. 
Pocecetes gramineus affinis, n. subsp., Salem, Oregon ; G. S. Miller, 
Junr., Auk, 1888, pp. 404 & 405. 
Poliospiza rufbrunnea figured ; R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xii, 
