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Timalia larvata, S. Mull., is a Stachyrhis. Id. I. c.
Homochlamys luscinia is described as a new species from the Philippines
and China. T. Salvadori, Att. Ac. Tor. 1870, p. 511.
Pomatorhinus nigrostellatus is a new species from Hanian, allied to P.
stridulus, but larger, with black pectoral spots. R. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1870,
p. 250.
Alcippe brucii is not distinguishable from A. poiocephala. A. Hume,
J. A. S. B. 1870, p. 122.
Oxylabes is a new genus established for Ellisia ? madagascariensis, Hartl.
(Faun. Madag, p. 37). R. B. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 386-8, figs.
Illadopsis gularis is a new species from Elmina, allied to I. fulvescens, but
larger and more rufescent underneath. Id. Ibis, 1870, p. 474.
HlRUNDINIDjE.
Stelgidopteryx fulvigula (Zool. Rec. ii. p. 106) is S. uropygialis, Lawr, O.
Salvin, Ibis, 1870, p. 109.
SHARPS, R. B. On the Hirundinidce of the Ethiopian Region. P. Z. S. 1870,
pp. 286-321.
Thirty-eight species are enumerated, belonging to two subfamilies and to
seven genera. Atticora obscura, Temm., is identified with Psalidoprocne holomelcena,
juv., and Hirundo alfredi (Zool. Rec. v. p. 81) with Petrochelidon spilodera
(Sund. G3f. Sv. Ak. 1850, p. 108). A table of the geographical distribution
is added, in which an attempt is made to divide the region naturally
into five subregions—the Abyssinian, Mozambican, Cape, Guinean, and Madagascarian.
Hirundo rufula does not differ from H. daurica, E. de Selys-Longchamps,
Ibis, 1870, p. 453. "
Cotyle eques (Zool. Rec. iii. p. 90) probably identical with C. cincta (Bodd.).
R. B. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 579.
Atticora griseopyga is figured. T. v. Heugl. Orn. N. O. Afr. tab. vii.
Hirundo anchietce (Zool. Rec. iv. p. 95) is H.filifera, Steph. J. V. B. du
Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. ii. p. 351 [cf. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 312].
Hirundo rustica. Some curious stages of plumage through which the species
passes when wintering in South Africa pointed out. R. B. Sharpe & H.
E. Dresser, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 244-249.—Its various forms. O. Finsch & G.
Hartlaub, Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 134.
Hirundo domicella is a new species from Senegal and North-eastern Africa.
lid. torn. cit. p. 143.
Hirundo urbica at Rouen supposed to have improved its style of nestbuilding
in the modern part of the town, and hence its power of reason
inferred. A. Pouchet, C. R. 1870, i. pp. 492-496. The pleasing illusion dispelled
by the fact that nests of H. rustica, in the new town, had been mistaken
for those of H. urbica, which only builds in the old. M. J. B. Noulet,
ibid. ii. pp. 77-81.
ORIOLID^;.
SHARPE, R. B. On the Oriolidce of the Ethiopian Region. Ibis, 1870, pp.
213-229, pis. vii., viii.
Asynopsis giving the full synonymy and diagnosis of each of theeightspecies.
Oriolus rolleti, Salvadori, is regarded as a small race of O. larvatus, and
0. baruffii identical with 0. brachyrhynchus, both being figured, as well as O,