passehiformes. Aves 69 
Spermestes nigriceps minor , n. subsp., S. Somali Land ; Erlanger, Ornith. 
Monber. xi, pp. 22 & 23. 
Lagonosticta brunneiceps ruberrima, Victoria Nyansa ; Reichenow, Ornith. 
Monber. xi, p. 24. 
Hypargus harterti, n. sp. [ = nitidnla Hartl. 1880, nec Hartl. 1865], 
Angola ; Shelley, Bull. B. 0. C. xiv, p. 30. 
Pytelia jessei , n. sp., Bogos Land ; id. op. cit. xiii, p. 76 : P. kirki, n. sp., 
Lamu, E. Africa ; id. t. c. p. 76. 
Coccopygia bocagei, n. sp., Benguela ; id. t. c. p. 56 : C. clarlcei , n. Sp., 
Natal ; id. t. c. p. 75. 
Nigrita lucieni is the 9 luteifrons ; Alexander, Ibis 1903, p. 350. 
Uroloncha topela , nesting in the Southern Shan States ; Harington, 
J. Bombay Soc. xv, pp. 140 & 141. 
Estrilda elizce, n. sp., Fernando Po; Alexander, Bull. B. 0. 0. xiii, 
p. 55 : E. minor Cab. — E. occidentalis Jard. ; id. Ibis 1903, p. 353. 
Estrilda , notes on the genus, and ‘key’ to the species : E. sanctce . helence , 
n. sp., S. Helena, E. peasei, n. sp., S. Abyssinia ; Shelley, Bull. 
B. O. C. xiii, pp. 74 & 75 : E. angolensis, figured ; Phillipps, Avicult. 
Mag. (2) i, pp. 120-124 cum tab. 
Heterhyphantes melanogaster, £ described ; Alexander, Bull. B. 0. C. xiii, 
p. 49. 
Sycobrotus poensis , n. sp., Fernando Po ; id. t. c. p. 38 [ = &. tephronotus 
Reichenow] ; id. Ibis 1903, p. 356. 
Phormoplectes , n. g., type P. insignis (Sharpe); Reichenow, J. Ornith. 
1903, p. 149. 
Hypermeg etkes, n. g., type H. grandis (Gray) ; id. t. c. p. 149. 
Melanopteryx maxwelli , n. sp., Fernando Po ; Alexander, Bull. B. 0. C. 
xiii, p. 55. , 
Ploceus finschi , n. sp., Mossamedes ; Reichenow, Ornith. Monber. xi, 
pp. 23 & 24 : P. megarhynchus , notes on living specimens ; Harper, 
Bull. B. 0. C. xiv, pp. 23 & 24 : P. orthnocephalus , n. sp., S. Somali 
Land ; Erlanger, Ornith. Monber. xi, p. 23. 
P. reichenowi , P. stuhlmanni , P aurantius , P. olivaceices, and P. schilling si, 
figured ; Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas ii. 
Neospiza , n. g., type N. concolor (Bocage) ; Salvadori, Mem. Acc. Torino 
(2) liii, p. 26 [ — Linurgus ; Shelley, Bull. B. 0. C. xiv, pp. 29 & 30]. 
Family IcTERlDTE. 
Ostinops decumanus , its nesting near Pard ; Goeldi, Ibis 1903, pp. 630-632. 
Icterus galbula , in Nova Scotia ; Dwight, Auk xx, p. 440 : I. bullochi , 
unusual nests ; Sharp, Condor v, pp. 38-42 : /. pyrrhopterus compsus , 
n. subsp., Cuyaba, Matto Grosso ; Oberholser, P. U. S. Mus. xxv, 
p. 68 [1902]: I. p. argoptilus, n. subsp., Conchitas, Buenos Ayres; 
id. t. c. p. 68. 
Euphagus Cassin vice Scolecophagus Swainson (nec Geoflfroy) ; Richmond, 
P. Soc. Washington xvi, p. 128. 
Quiscalus brachypterus , nest described ; Bowdish, Auk xx, pp. 12 & 13. 
Family Orioliile. 
Cf. Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas ii, pp. 653-662. 
Notes on the Papuan species ; Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. x, 
p. 111. 
Onolus percivali , n. sp., Kikuyu ; Grant, Bull. B. 0» C. xiv, p. 18 : 
0. meneliki is distinct from 0. monachus ; Neumann, J. Ornith. 1903, 
