48 Aves. 
AYES. 
C a mpy lop ter us phcenopepb/s, Diphlogcenci hesperus , D. aurora. Orropyra 
calolcema, 0. cinereicauda, Cceligena hemileuca, Agyrtria bartletti, A. fluvia- 
tilis , A. taczanowskii, Uranomitra viridifrons , Timolia lerchi , Eugenes 
spectabilis. 
The family [anatom} 7 ], see Shufeldt, R. W. 
Campylopterus hyperythrus from R. Guiana [Roraima] ; O. Salvin, Ibis, 
1885, p. 432. 
Chlorostilbonforficatus, sp. n. [— C • caniveti , Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p, 191], 
Cozumel I., Yucatan ; R. Ridgway, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. viii. pp. 574 
& 575 [also P. Biol. Soc. Wash. iii.]. 
Chrysolampis gigliolii , sp. n., Colombia; E. Oustalet, Le Nat. 1885, 
p. 108. 
Cceligena clemencies new to United States (Arizona); W. Brewster, 
Auk, ii. p. 85 [pf. p. 199]. 
Discura sp ? perhaps = Trochilus platurus, from B. Guiana ; O. 
Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 434. 
Lampornis prevosti thalassinus , subsp. n., Cozumel I., Yucatan; R. 
Ridgway, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. viii. pp. 573 & 574 [also P. Biol. Soc. Wash, 
iii.]. 
Panycldora poortmani major , subsp. n. ; H. v. Berlepsch, J. f. 0. 1884, 
p. 313. 
Trochilus, species of doubtful occurrence in Guiana ; O. Salvin, Ibis, 
1855, p. 436. 
Cypseli DiE. 
The family [anatomy], see Shufeldt, R. W. 
Chcetura zonaris from B. Guiana, is it identical with Hemiprocne minor , 
Lawr., or H. albicincta , Cab.? ; O. Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 436. 
Collocalia nidifica. Statement of the three hypotheses as to the con¬ 
struction of the nest; that it is made—(i.) partly of saliva, partly of 
vegetable matter; (ii.) of fish spawn or mollusca ; (iii.) of saliva entirely. 
Decision (after the use of the microscope and chemical re-agents) that 
there is no trace of vegetable matter other than accidental, that it has no 
ferment properties, and is undoubtedly a product of the activity of some 
gland in the body, but it does not appear 'whether peptic or salivary 
(though the latter is the more probable). J. R. Green, Journal of Physi¬ 
ology, 1885, p. 40. [See also H. de Varigny, La Nature, 1885, pp. 186 
& 187; J. Biittikofer, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 610; W. B. Pryer, Zool. 1885, 
p. 296; G. Murray, t. c. p. 147. 
Cypsel-us anclicola, remarks ; W. Nation, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 279. 
Capri mu lg IDAS. 
The family [anatomy], see Shufeldt, R. W. 
Antrostomus whitelyi , sp. n., near A. mgrescens , £ $ from B. Guiana 
[Roraima] ; O. Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 438. 
Batrachostomus cornutus , description of two nests and one egg (with fig.), 
from Kampong Moeroeug and Kampong Pagat, Borneo; F. Kutter, 
J. f. O. 1885, pp. 341-343. pi. iv. 
