PASSERIFORMES. 
Aves 49 
East Renfrewshire; Paterson & Robertson, Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 
1897, pp. 124 & 125. P. borealis in Germany; Kleinschmidt, Ornith. 
Monber. v, pp. 62 & 63: notes on; Floericke, t. e. pp. 23 & 24. 
P. cristatus and its allied forms in Germany; Kleinschmidt, t. c. 
pp. 1 & 2. 
Poecile hypermelaena , P. davidi , described; Deditius, «T. Ornith. 1897, 
pp. 72-74. 
Auriparus Jlaviceps lamprocephalus , n. subsp., Lower California; Ober- 
holser, Auk, xiv, pp. 391-394. 
Regulus calendula grinnelli , n. subsp., Alaska; Palmer, Auk, xiv, 
pp. 399-401. 
Family Laniidte. 
Lanius robustus , Baird, status in North America; Ridgway, Auk, xiv, 
p. 323. L. ludovicianus , from Andros I., Bahamas; Sharpe, Bull. 
Ornith. Club, vii, p. vii. L. collurio , notes on ; PrazAk, Ornith. 
Monber. v, pp. 37-43. 
Otomela varia , n. sp., Transcaspia; Zarudnoi, Annuaire Mus. St. Petersb. 
ii, p. 194. [Transl. Harms, Ornith. Monber. v, pp. 183 & 184.1 
Nicator chloris , from Uganda; Sharpe, Bull. Ornith. Club, vi, p. xlviii. 
Laniarius abbotti } n. sp.,.East Africa; Richmond, Auk, xiv, pp. 161 & 162. 
Cracticus ru/escens f nest and eggs; North, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxii, 
pp. 56-68. 
Pachycephala melanura dahli , n. subsp. ; Reichenow, Ornith. Monber. v, 
pp. 178 & 179. P. ganiblei, n. sp., British New Guinea; Rothschild, 
Bull. Ornith. Club, vii, p. xxii. P. sororcula , n. sp., British New 
Guinea; He Vis, Ibis, 1897, p. 380. P. nudigula , n. sp., South Flores; 
Hartert, Nov.- Zool. iv, p. 171 : figured; id. t. c. pi. iii, fig. 3. 
Abbottornisy n. g., type A. chabert (Mull.); Richmond, P. U. S. Mus. xix, 
p. 692. 
Prionops vinaceigularis y n. sp., East Africa; Richmond, Auk, xiv, pp. 162 & 
163. 
Collyriocincla cerviniventrisy n. sp., Queensland; North, Rec. Austral. 
Mus. iii, pp. 49 & 50. 
Grallina bruijniiy notes on; De Vis, Ibis, 1897, pp. 378 & 379. 
Family Ampelidas. 
Ampelis cedrorum,, photographed from life; Shufeldt, Amer. Natural, 
xxxi, pp. 120-123, pi. i. 
Family Vireonidas. 
Vireo philadelphicus , notes on; Dwight, Auk, xiv, pp. 259-272, pi. ii, 
fig. 2. V. gilvus , figured ; t. c. pi. ii, fig. i. 
Family Sylviid.®. 
Sylvia nisoria } in Norfolk ; Slater, Bull. Ornith. Club, vii, p. viii : in 
Argyleshiro; IIarvie-Brown & Clarke, Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1897, 
p. 42. S. heinekeniy remarks on the female ; Hartwig, Ornith. Monber. 
v, pp. 73 & 74. S. blanfordiiy near Suakin; Cholmley, Ibis, 1897, 
pp. 203 & 204. S. margelanica, n. sp., Marguelane, Ferghana ; 
Stolzmann, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1897, p. 72. 
