PASSERES. 
Aves 47 
Hirundinidje. 
Chclidon namiyei, n. sp., Urassoimagiri, Okinawa Shima, Liu-Kiu Is. ; ‘ 
L. Stejneger, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 646. G. arbica figured ; Lord 
Lilford, Col. Fig. of Br. Birds, pt. iii. 
Gotilc riparia figured ; id. ibid. C. concolor, G. obsoleta, figured ; It. B. 
Sharpe & C. W. Wyatt, Monogr. Hirund. pt. iv. G. obsoleta breeding 
at Aden ; J. W. Yerbury, Ibis, 1886, p. 14. 
Hirund o smithii, II. nigrorvfa , II. cucullata , II. atrocccrulea, H. mclano- 
crissa , II. griseopyga , II. nigrita , figured ; R. B. Sharpe & C. W. Wyatt, 
Monogr. Hirund. pts. iii & iv. II. pouched nesting in holes (made by 
other animals) in the ground ; L. Petit, .Ornis, 1885, p. 587. II. guttura- 
lis is distinct from II. i mstica , its colours during and after change of 
plumage ; W. Blasius, Z. ges. Orn. 1886, pp. 108 & 178. H. rustica 
figured ; Lord Lilford, Col. Fig. of Br. Birds, pt. iii. 
Petrochelidon ariel figured ; R. B. Sharpe & C. W. Wyatt, Monogr. 
Hirund. pt. iv. 
Plicdina brazzee, n. sp., near P. borbonica f Ganciu (Nganciou) Congo ; 
E. Oustalet, Le Nat. 1886, p. 300. 
Psalidoprocne holomelama , P. pristoptera , figured ; R. B. Sharpe & 
C. W. Wyatt, Monogr. Hirund. pt. iii. 
ICTEKIDiE. 
Icterus bairdi , n. sp., I. of Grand Cayman, W.I. ; C, B. Cory, Auk, 
iii, p. 500. 7. hauxwelli figured from type; P. L. Sclater, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. xi, p. 377, pi. xviii. 
Ostinops guatemozinus figured ; F. D. Godman & O. Salvin, Biol. Centr. 
Amer. p. 439, pi. xxxii. 
Quiscalus caymanensis , n. sp., I. of Grand Cayman, W.I. ; C. B. Cory, 
Auk, iii, p. 499. 
LANIIDiE. 
Dryoscopus bicolor , skeleton figured; A. B. Meyer, Abbild. Yogel.-skel. 
pt. x. 
Fraseria ocrcata , its nest and eggs, from Liberia ; J. Biittikofer, Notes 
Loyd. Mus. viii [1886], p. 257. 
Hypocolius ampelinus ) its nests and eggs; R. B. Sharpe [W. D. Cum- 
ming], Ibis, 1886, pp. 477-480. 
Lanius, sub voce, “Shrike’’; A. Newton, Encycl. Brit. ed. 9, vol. xxi. 
L. algeriensis in Alsace ; H. Schalow, J. f. O. 1886, p. 123. L. excubitor 
and L. major , their specific rank doubtful, connecting forms seem to show 
they are synonymous, as also may be the case with other nearly allied 
forms ; R. Collett, Ibis, 1886, pp. 30-40. 
Otomela bogdanowi , n. sp., Aber, Astrabad, N. Persia; A. M. Nicol- 
ski, Trud. Petcrsb. xvii, pp. 392 & 394-396 [diagnosis — comparison 
with O. romanoun and E. collurio ] ; also V. Bianchi, Bull. Petersb. xxx, 
pp. 514-519. 
Pachycephala collaris figured ; J. Gould [R. B. Sharpe], Birds of New 
Guinea, pt. xxi. 
