46 Aves. 
Buchanga palawanensis , n. sp., Palawan ; J. Whitehead, Ibis, 
1890, p. 47. 
Dicrurus leucogenys , var. salangensis ; A. Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. 
Hein. p. 69, Salanga Is. D. leucopaceus [nom. nudum = D. leucogenys , 
Wald.] ; id. t. c. p. 69. 
Family Oriolidjj. 
Oriolus samarensis , n. sp., Samar ; J. B. Steere, List Birds and 
Mamm. Philipp, p. 17. 
Mimeta affinis , egg figured ; A. J. North, Nests and Eggs Austr. B. 
pi. xi, fig. 12. 
Sphecotheres maxillaris , egg figured ; id. t. c. fig. 11. 
Family Icteric. 
Icterus bullocki in New England ; W. Brewster, Auk, 1890, p. 92. /. 
laltimore in Shetland; J. E. HaRting, Zool. 1890, p. 457. I. northropi } 
n. sp., Andros I., Bahamas ; J. A. Allen, Auk, vii, pp. 343-346. 
Scolecophagus carolinus in Lower California ; A. W. Anthony, Proc. 
Cal. Acad. Sci. (2) ii, p. 86. 
* Dolichonyx oryzivorus, its changes of plumage ; F. M. Chapman, Auk, 
vii, pp. 120-124 : winter distribution and migration ; id. op. cit. pp. 
39-45. 
Family Ploceid.®. 
Sharpe, R. B. Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in 
the Collection of the British Museum. [Vol, xiii of The Catalogue 
of Birds.] Ploceidce. 8vo, 1890, pp. 198-511, pis. ix-xv. 
The Viduince are the first Subfamily, with 43 genera and 218 species. 
The Ploceiince have 20 genera and 98 species. 
Subfamily Viduince. 
v Penthetriopsis , n. g. Type, P. macrura ; R. B. Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. xiii, p. 220. 
TJrobrachya hildebrandti, n. sp., Mombasa ; id. t. c. p. 225. U. zanzi- 
barica, Shelley, = U. phcenicea, Heugl.; id. t. c. p. 225. TJ. bocagii 
figured ; id. t. c. pi. ix. 
Pyromelana phcenicomera [potius xanthomera'] is scarcely separable 
from P. capensis ; id. t. c. p. 239. 
Quelea erythrops (fig. 1), Q. quelea (fig. 2), Q. intermedia (fig. 4), Q. 
cethiopica (fig. 5), Q. russi (fig. 6), heads figured ; id. t. c. pi. x. 
Spermestes rufodorsalis , Peters, = S. dorsalis, Cass. ; id. t. c. p. 263. 
S. scutata, Heugl., distinct from S. cucullata , Sw. ; id. t. c. p. 265. 
Amauresthes fringilloides , from Natal ; id. t. c. p. 268. 
Pytelia monteiri (Hartl.), Ilypargus niveiguttatus (Peters), and H. mar- 
