CORACIIFORMES. 
Aves 57 
Sub-order Meropes. 
Merops a,piaster, migration in Treviso ; Ninni, Avicula v, pp. 94-98 : M. 
salvadoni, figured ; Madarasz, J. Ornith. 1901, p. 115, Taf. 1, fig. 1 : 
M. muscatensis , at Yeshbum, South Arabia; Lorenz & Hellmayr, 
J. Ornith. 1901, p. 242. 
Sub-order Caprimulgi. 
Notes on the Pterylography ; Clark, Auk xviii, pp. 167-172. 
Nyctibius jamaicensis, nidification of; Goeldi, Bol. Mus. Para, iii, pp. 210- 
214. 
Nyctidromus albicollis yucatanensis , n. subsp., Yucatan ; Nelson, P. Soc. 
Washington xiv, pp. 171 & 172. 
Nyctagreus , n. g., type N. yucatanicus (Hartert); id. t. c. p. 171. 
Caprimulgus fossil, in S. Abyssinia ; Grant & Reid, Ibis 1901, p. 672 : 
C. eximius, eggs and young birds ; N. C. Rothschild, Bull. B. 0. C. 
xi, p. 66 : note on ; Witherby, Ibis 1901, pp. 259-261 : C. macrurus, 
pterylosis of; Thompson, P. Zool. Soc. London 1901, vol. i, pp. 315, 
320, figg. 80, 82 : C. sharpei, n. sp., Gold Coast Hinterland ; Alexander, 
Bull. B. 0. C. xii, p. 29 : C. unwini, at Zeila on the Somali Coast; 
Grant, Ibis 1901, p. 290. 
Sub-order Cypseli. 
Collocalia gigas, n. sp., Selangore, Malay Peninsula ; Hartert & Butler, 
Bull. B. 0. C. xi, p. 65 : in Java ; Finsch, Bull. B. 0. C. xii, p. 30 : 
C. spodopygia, pterylosis of; Thompson, P. Zool. Soc. London 1901, 
vol. i, p. 314, fig. 79. 
Chcetura thomensis, figured ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. viii, p. 425, pi. vii, fig. 1. 
Cypselus melba, subsp. africana (Temm.), is not entitled to subspecific 
rank; Grant & Reid, Ibis 1901, pp. 270 & 271 : C. apus, breeding 
habits ; Ellison, Zoologist 1901, pp. 286-289, 384 & 385 ; Jourdain, 
t. c. p. 426 : incubation ; id. t. c. pp. 473 & 474. 
Apus acuticauda, distinct from A. apus ; Hartert, C.R. Congr. Orn. iii, 
pp. 199 & 200: A. murinus brehmorum, n. subsp.; Hartert in 
Naumann’s Yog. Deutschl., iv, lief, ix, p. 233 ; id. Nov. Zool. viii, p. 326: 
A. unicolor alexandri, n. subsp., Cape Verde Ids.; id. t. c. p. 328. 
Sub-order Trochili. 
Pha'ethornis longirostris susurrus, n. subsp., Santa Marta, Colombia; Bangs, 
P. New England Zool. Club ii, pp. 64 & 65 : P. fuliginosus, n. sp., 
Colombia ; Simon, C.R. Congr. Orn. iii, pp. 201 & 202 : P. hyalinus, 
n. sp., San Miguel Is., Panama; Bangs, Auk xviii, pp. 27 & 28 : P. 
caurensis, Caura ; Simon & D almas, C.R. Congr. Orn. iii, pp. 208 & 
209. 
Aphantochroa cuvieri saturatior, n. sp., Coiba Is., Panama; Hartert, 
Bull. B. 0. C. xii, p. 33. 
Patagona gigas, pterylosis of; Thompson, P. Zool. Soc. London 1901, 
vol. i, pp. 311-324, figg. in text 77-82. 
Leucippus baeri, n. sp., Tumbez, N.W. Peru ; Simon, C.R. Congr. Orn. iii, 
p. 202. 
Chlorostilbon splendidus, in confinement [photo]; Marchi, t. c. pp. 251 & 
252: C. caribbeus lessoni, n. subsp., Venezuela; Simon & Halmas, 
t. c. pp. 212-214. 
Encephala kumboldti, from W. Colombia ; iid. t, c. pp. 219 & 220. 
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