PICARIiE, PSITTACI. 
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Cuculus ccinorus , on the hard and firm nature of the egg-shell ; A. 
Walter, J. f. 0. 1885, pp. 369 & 370 : laying more than one egg in the 
same nest; H. Schalow. Z. ges. Orn. 1885, p. 18 : eggs in nests of various 
birds ; H. Fournes, MT. Orn. Ver. Wien, 1885, pp. 178 & 188 ; A. Wal¬ 
ter, t. c. pp. 235 & 236. 
Dromococtyx gracilis , sp. n., Demerara ; R. Ridgway, P. U. S. Nat. 
Mus. viii. p. 559. 
Eudynamis melanorhyncha , stages of plumage ; F. H. H. Guillemard, 
P. Z. S. 1885, p. 550. 
Geococcyx californicus , colouration of naked skin-tracts in life ; R. W- 
Shufeldt, Ibis, 1885, pp. 286-288, pi. vii. 
Musophagimb. 
Corythaix leucotis in confinement; G. Eismann, Zool. Gart. 1885, 
pp. 361-363. C. livingstonii [J. f. 0. 1880, p. 141] should be C. cabanisi ; 
G. A. Fischer, op. cit. 1885, p. 123. G. hartlaubi , C. scliuetti , G. living¬ 
stonii, C. cabanisi , G. reichenowi , figured ; H. Schalow, t. c. pi. v. 
M-usophaga boehmi [cf. Zool. Rec. xxi. Aves, p. 54] = M. rossce , juv. 
id. t. c. p, 108. 
PSITTACI. 
An important article on the family, sub voce “Parrot”; A. Newton, 
Encycl. Brit. ed. 9, xviii. 
Cacatua gymnopis , G. ducorpsi , C. triton , C. opthalmica figured ; J. 
Gould, Birds N. Guinea, pts. xix. & xx. 
Chrysotis tucumana, sp. n., Tucuman, Argentine Rep.: J. Cabanis, 
J. f. 0. 1885, p. 221. 
Goracopsis sibilans , sp. n., Grand Comore ; A. Milne-Edwards & E. 
Oustalet, C.R. ci. p. 220. 
Cyclopsitta occidentals figured; J. Gould, Birds N. Guinea, pt. xix. 
Cyclopsittacus eclwardsi, sp. n., Kafou, N. New Guinea; E. Oustalet, 
Ann. Sci. Nat. (6) xix. Art 3, p. 1. 
Eos insular is ^ sp. n., Weeda Is., S.E. Halmaheira ; F. H. H. Guille¬ 
mard, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 565, pi. xxxiv. 
Loriculus bonapartii — L. hartlaubi ; id. t. c. p. 253. 
Nestor sp. n. ? or occidentalism ; A. Reischek, Tr, N. Z. Inst. xvii. 
[1884] p. 194. 
Platycercus pennantiv ar. n.nobbsi,fide~E. L. Layard [Ibis, 1881, p. 173], 
from Norfolk I.; H. B. Tristram, Ibis, 1885, p. 48. 
Poeocephalus rufiventris breeding in gigantic ant-hills in Somali-land ; 
G. E. Shelley [E. Lort Phillips’ Notes], t. c. p. 393. 
Prioniturus , tail-feathers, heads, and beaks figured, &c. ; W. Blasius, 
Z. ges. Orn. 1885, pp. 212-218, cuts. 
Psittacula anclicola , remarks; W. Nation, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 279. P. 
cyanochlora , Natt., MSS., sp. n. ? figured, from Rio Brancho, N. Brazil ; 
