48 Aves 
III. AYES. 
Family Meliphagidaj. 
Neneba , n. g., type, N. prasina , n. sp., British New Guinea; De Vis, Ibis, 
1897, p. 384. 
Ptilotis sibisibina, P. lawmans, P. obscura , n. spp., British Now Guinea ; 
De Vis, t. c. pp. 381-383. P. pi'cecipua , n. sp., New Guinea; Harteht, 
Nov. Zool. iv, p. 370. 
P. lawmans, De Vis — P. salvadorii , Hart.; Hartert, t. c. p. 369. 
Acanthochcera fusca, n. sp., British New Guinea; De Vis, Ibis, 1897, 
pp. 383 & 384 [Is a Melirrhophetes ] ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. iv, p. 369. 
Meliornis schistacea , n. sp., British New Guinea; De Vis, Ibis, 1897, 
p. 381. 
Myzomela lafargei , note on ; Hartert, Bull. Ornith. Club, vii, p. xxiii, 
Family Nectariniida:. 
Rhaphidornis , n. gen., type R. flavifrons , n. sp. ; Reichenow, Ornith. 
Monber. v, p. 123. 
Cinnyris nectarinioides , n. sp., East Africa; Richmond, Auk, xiv, p. 158. 
C. senegalensis lamperti , n. subsp., Kilimanjaro ; Reichenow, J. Ornith. 
1897, p. 196. C. frenata meyeri , n. subsp., N. Celebes; Hartert, Nov. 
Zool. iv, p. 156. C. frenata saleyerensis , n. subsp., I. of Saleyer, Celebes ; 
id. t. c. p. 156. C. excellens, Grant = C. Jlagrans (Oust.); Hartert, 
t. c. p. 11. 
Family DiceiDjE. 
Dicceum hosei , n. sp., N. Celebes ; Sharpe, Bull. Ornith. Club, vi, p. xlviii. 
D. neglectum , n. sp., I. of Savu; Hartert, Nov. Zool. iv, pp. 264 & 
265. 
Family ZosteropiDjE. 
Zosterops cuicui and Z. Iceta , n. spp., British New Guinea; De Vis, Ibis, 
1897, pp. 384 & 386. Z. crassirostris , Z. super ciliaris, n. spp., South 
Flores; Hartert, Nov. Zool. iv, p. 172. Z. crassirostris , figured; id. 
t. c. pi. iii, fig. 1. Z. super ciliaris, figured ; id. t. c. pi. iii, fig. 2. Z. unica, 
n. sp., Flores; id. t. c. p. 520. 
Lophozosterops (? Zosterops ) subcristatus , n. sp., South Flores ; Hartert, 
Nov. Zool. iv, p. 171. L. dohertyi , figured; Rothschild, t. c. pi. ii, 
fig. 1. 
Tephras r i v uki , n. sp., Ruk I., Carolines ; Hartert, Bull. Ornith. Club, vii, 
p. v. 
Family PARiDiE. 
Die palaearktischen Sumpfmeisen. Beitrage zur Kenntnis derselben. 
Kleinschmidt, Ornith. Jahrb. viii, pp. 45-103. 
Pams dejeani , n. sp., Western China; Oustalet, Bull. Mus. Paris, 1897, 
pp. 209 & 210. P. owstoni , redescribed; Ijima, Dob. Zasshi, 1893, 
No. 62 ; Reichenow, Ornith. Monber. v, p. 143. P. meridionalis , 
subsp. P. salicarius , Brehm, figured; id. t. c. taf. iii. P. meridionalis 
and P. salicarius borealis , .figured ; id. t. c. taf. iv. P. sclateri , nom. 
emend, pro P. meridionalis, Scl. [ nec Liljeb.]; id. t. c. p. 133. P. sali- 
carius, and its allies; Kleinschmidt, J. Ornith. 1897, pp. 112-137: 
in England ; Hartert, Bull. Ornith. Club, vii, p. iv. P. palustris, in 
