passeres. Aves 50 
Philelcerus [ Nigrita ] cabanisi figured, from Kilimanjaro ; G. E. 
Shelley [F. J. Jackson], Ibis, 1888, p. 292, pi. vi. 
Plocepasser rufoscapulatus , n. sp. [ ], Kasinga R., S.W. Africa ; 
J. Buttikofer, Notes Leyd. Mus. x [1888], pp. 238 & 239, pi. ix, fig. 2. 
Ploceus jaclcsoni, n. sp. [£], Kilimanjaro; G. E. Shelley [F. J. 
Jackson], Ibis, 1888, p. 293, pi. vii. P. caslanops [£ ? ], n. sp., locality 
not stated, Equat. Africa ; id. t. c. p. 35. 
Spermospiza ruficapilla [?], n. sp., Bellima, Equat. Africa ; id. t. c. 
p. 30. 
Textor dinemelli [<£], T. boehni [ $ ], T. panicivora [ $ ? ], T. albirostris 
[ ^ ? ] figured ; E. Bartlett, Monogr. Weaver-Birds and Finches, 
pts. i & ii. 
Urobrachia traversii [<J], n. sp., Sutta, Shoa ; T. Salvadori, Ann. 
Mus. Genov, xxvi, pp. 287 & 288. 
Pycnonotidjs, 
Crintger platen ce, n. sp. [£], Groat Sanghir I. [Colebos Sea] ; W. 
Blasius, Braunschw. Anz. 1888, No. 9 (Jan. 11th), p. 86, and Ornis, 
1888, pp. 595 & 596, pi. iv, fig. 2. 
Hypsipetes pryeri \cf. Zool. Rec. xxiii, Aves, p. 51], = II. amaurotis 
squamiceps (Kittlitz) ; H. Seeboiim, Ibis, 1888, pp. 232 & 233. 
Iole striaticeps , n. sp. [ $ ], near I. viridescens, Pal&wan I. ; R. B. Sharpe 
[j. Whitehead], t. c. pp. 200 & 201. 
Oreoctistes leucops, n. g. & sp. [ $ $ ], Kina Balu Mt., N. Borneo ; id. 
[J. Whitehoad], t. c. pp. 388 & 389, pi. ix, fig. 1. 
SlTTIDiE. 
Fossil remains (new species), see Portis, A. 
Dendrophila corallipes, n. sp., near D. frontalis, Kina Balu Mt., N. 
Borneo; R. B. Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 479. 
Sitta amurensis clara \cf. Zool. Rec. xxiii, Aves , p. 51] is not a good 
species ; H. Seebohm, t. c. p. 240. S. cassia figured ; Lord Lilford, 
Col. Fig. Br. Birds, pt. viii. 
StURNIDvE. 
Acridotheres albocinctus figured from the type ; E. W. Oates, Ibis, 
1888, p. 72, pi. i. 
Pastor roseus figured ; Lord Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. Birds, pt. vii. 
Poliopsar , n. g., for P. sericeus , P. cineraceus, P. burmanicus , P. 
leucocephalus, P. andamanensis , P . erythropygius, P. malabaricus, P. nemo - 
ricola , P. blythi, with P. colletti, n. sp., near P. cineraceus, loc. incert,, 
P. cambodianus , n. sp., near P. leucocephalus, Cambodia ; R. B. Sharpe, 
Ibis, 1888, pp. 476 & 477. 
