PASSERIFORMES. 
Aves 45 
Poephila mirabilis and P. gouldii , figured ; Saville-Kent, Naturalist in 
Australia, p. 55, pi. ii. 
Munia monticola , n. sp., British New Guinea; De Vis, Ibis, 1897, pp. 387 
& 388. M. subcastanea , n. sp., West Celebes; Hartert, Nov. Zool. 
iv, pp. 161 & 162. M. brunneiceps , note on; id. t. c. p. 11. 
Estrelda cyanocephala , n. sp., East Africa ; Richmond, Auk, xiv, pp. 157 & 
158. E. ochrogaster , n. sp., Abyssinia ; Salvadori, Boll. Mus. Torino, 
xii, No. 287, p. 4. 
Symplectes croconotus , Sjostedt, is the £ of Sycobrotus insignis , Sharpe ; 
Sharpe, Bull. Ornith. Club, vi, p. xliii. 
Malimbus rubricollis , from Uganda ; Sharpe, t. c. p. xlviii. 
Family Tanagridas. 
Rhamphoccelus inexpectatus , n. sp., Panama; Rothschild, Bull. Ornith. 
Club, vi, p. xxvii. 
Phoenicothraupis rubicoides affinis , n. subsp., Mexico ; Nelson, Auk, xiv, 
p. 66. 
Pyranga rubra , tho moult and certain plumage phases ; Shufeldt, t. c. 
pp. 406 & 407. 
Buthraupis rothschildi , n. sp., North-west Ecuador ; Berlepsch, Bull. 
Ornith. Club, vii, p. iii. 
Buarremon borclli , n. sp., San Lorenzo; Salvadori, Boll. Mus. Torino, 
xii, No. 292, p. 6. 
Chlorospingus atnceps, n. sp., Mexico; Nelson, Auk, xiv, p. 65. 
Nemosia rosenbergi, n. sp., North Ecuador; Rothschild, Bull. Ornith. 
Club, vii, p. vi. 
Saltator fulviventris, female described ; Salvadori, Boll. Mus. Torino, xii, 
No. 292, p. 7. 
Family DREPANiDiE. 
Himatione virens, egg figured; Newton, P. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, pi. li, 
figs. 6 & 7. 
Family Fringillidas. 
On sexual distinctions in Finches which are similarly coloured in both 
sexes ; Butler, Avicult. Mag. iii, pp. 104-106, figg. 1-6. 
Lobospingus , n. g., type L. sigillifer , n. sp., British New Guinea ; De Vis, 
Ibis, 1897, pp. 389 & 390. 
Oreospiza , n. g., typo O. fuliginosa , n. sp., British New Guinea; De Vis, 
t. c. pp. 388 & 389. 
Coccothraustes vespertinus mexicanus , n. subsp., Mexico; Chapman, Auk, 
xiv, p. 311. 
C. humii, in Ferghana; Stolzmann, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1897, p. 55. 
Zamelodia vice Ilabia ; Coues, Auk, xiv, pp. 39-42. 
Cardinalis cardinally littoralis , n. subsp., Mexico; Nelson, t. c. pp. 64 
& 65. . 
Pyrrhuloxia sinuata texana , n. subsp., Texas ; Ridgway, t. c. p. 95. 
Spinus tristis salicamans , n. subsp., California ; Grinnell, t. c. pp. 397-399. 
S. pinus , spring moult ; Stone, t. c. p. 320. 
Montifringilla nivalis , breeding in Siebenbiirgen ; Grunak, Aquila, iv, 
pp. 264-267. 
Fringilla nivalis , in Bohemia; KnEzourek, Ornith. Jahrb. viii, pp. 108 & 
109. 
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