PASSEKES. 
Aves 43 
Phonygama purpureo-violacea , sp. n., near P. keraudrenii, from Hufeisen 
Mts., New Guinea ; 0. Finsch & A. B. Meyer, Z. ges. Orn. 1885, p. 375, 
pi. xv. 
Schlegelia respu-blica, skeleton figured ; A. B. Meyer, Abbild. Vogel- 
skel. pi. lxxviii. 
Seleucides nigricans, native method of capture, habits in confinement ; 
F. H. H. Guillemard, P. Z. S. 1885, pp. 650 & 651. 
Uranornis rubra, skeleton figured ; A. B. Meyer, Abbild. Yogel-skel. 
pi. lxxvii. 
Paeidjc. 
Leptoposcile sophice major , subsp. n., from Ush-tur-fan on the 
Taushkan-Darja and the Koushaal, Kashgaria; M. Menzbier, Ibis, 1885, 
p. 353. 
Pams cinerascens [= sarawacensis , first name pre-occupied, t. c. 
p. 327], sp. n., near P. cinereus , Bungal Hills, Sarawak ; H. H. Slater, 
t. c. pp. 121-123, pi. iv. P. pallidiventris, sp. u., Kakoma, E. Africa ; 
A. Reichenow, J. f. O. 1885, p. 217. P. thruppi, sp. n., near P. afer , 
Somali-land [E. Lort Phillips] ; G. E. Shelley, Ibis, 1885, pp. 406 & 407, 
pi. xi. fig. 2. 
Ploceid,e. 
Synonomy of various species, alterations necessary in certain cases ; A. 
Reichenow, t. c. pp. 372-374. 
Euplectes ladoensis, sp. n., Lado, Central Africa ; id. t. c. p. 218. 
Foudia consobrina , sp. n., Grand Comore ; A. Milne-Edwards & E. 
Oustalet, C.R. ci. p. 222. 
Pyrenestes personatus and P. coccineus sometimes indistinguishable ; 
J. Buttikofer, Notes Leyd. Mus. vii. p. 200. 
Textor boehmi, sp. n., Tanganyika and Victoria Nyanza ; A. Reichenow, 
J. f. O. 1885, p. 372. 
Urceginthus ianthinogaster, fig. in J. f. O. is misleading, redescribed by 
G. E. Shelley, Ibis, 1885, pp. 408 & 409. 
Pycnonotioe. 
Griniger simplex , skeleton figured; A. B. Meyer, Abbild. Vogel-skel. 
pi. lxxxiv. 
Hypsipetes parvirostris, sp. n., Grand Comore ; A. Milne-Edwards & 
E. Oustalet, C.R. ci. p. 222. 
SlTTIDiE. 
Sitta cassia from Tangier; S. G. Reid, Ibis, 1885, p. 243. S. whitehead/, 
description of its discovery and woodcut of its nest ; J. Whitehead, t. c. 
pp. 24-48, pi. ii. ( $ $ and egg) [c/. Zool. Rec. xxi. Ares, p. 38]. 
