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AYES. 
Merops angolensis, skeleton figured; A. B. Meyer, Abbild. Yogel-skel. 
pi. Ixxxiv. M. philippinus var. n. celebensis, Mangkassar and Kalibang- 
kere, S. Celebes ; W. Blasius, Z. ges. Orn. 1885, pp. 239-242. 
CoRACIID-ZE. 
Cor a ci as lorti, sp. n., near C. caudata, from Somali-land [E. Lort 
Phillips]; G. E. Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 399. C.ncevici levaillanti, subsp. n.? 
from S. Africa, should probably be distinguished as above from C. ncevia 
of E. and W. Africa ; id. ibid. 
Eurystomus afer , skeleton figured ; A. B. Meyer, Abbild. Yogel-skel. 
pi. lxxx. 
Leptosomus gracilis, sp. n., Grand Comore ; A. Milne-Edwards & E. 
Oustalet, C.R. ci. p. 220. 
Galbulida?. 
Galbula pastazce, sp. n., Mapoto and Machay, Ecuador ; L. Taezanowski 
& H. v. Berlepsch, P. Z. S. 1885, pp. 107 & 108. 
Bhamphastim:. 
Pteroglossus iviedi, skeleton figured ; A. B. Meyer, Abbild. Yogel-skel. 
pi. lxxxvii. 
Capitonidjc. 
Trachyphonus erythrocephalus from Somali-land, apparently differs in 
colouration from the type ; G. E. Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 394. 
Tricholcema stigmatothorax from Somali-land,difference of colouration; 
id. ibid. 
CUCULID^. 
Beddard. F. E. On the Structural Characters and Classification of the 
Cuckoos. P. Z. S. 1885, pp. 168-187, cuts. 
The author finds that his researches tend to divide the family into 3 
groups :—i. Cuculince(Cuculus, Chrysococcgx , Cacomantis , Coccystes?,Sauro- 
thera , Diploptcrus , Piaya, Coccyzus ) ; ii. P hcenicophaincc ( Eudynamis , 
Phosnicopha.es) ; iii. Centropoclince ( Pyrrhocentor , Centropus , Coua ?, Geo¬ 
coccyx, Crotophaga , Guira ). In the first, the pectoral feather-tract is 
single, in the two latter it is divided ; these two being distinguished 
from one another by the fact of the syrinx being tracheo-bronchial and 
bronchial respectively. The statements of Owen as to the gall-bladder, 
and of Nitzsch as to pterylosis and number of rectrices, are challenged. 
Centrococcyx javanensis, the $ is the larger [= C. affinis~\, the $ the 
smaller bird ; W. Blasius, Z. ges. Orn. 1885, p. 265. 
Centropus francisci, successive changes of colour, C.monachus — C. sene- 
galensis , ad. P ; J. Biittikofer, Notes Leyd. Mus. vii. pp. 222 & 223. 
