35 [Vol. xli.

pattern to, but much darker and richer red-brown than, F. striolata.

Female. Similar to female F. striolata but altogether larger ; darker, more richly red-brown coloured throughout. Wing 79 mm., tail 64 mm., tarsus 18 mm., bill 10 mm.

Ty'iye. In the British Museum. S ad. Jebel Marra.

Altitude 7100 feet. 5.iv.20. Collected by Captain Lynes. Eight specimens collected in Jebel Marra, all above 7000 feet altitude.

Five adult males : wings 82-77 mm. ; tails 67-62 mm. Three adult females : wings 78-73 mm. ; tails 66-61 mm.

Mr. C. Chubb sent the following communication in regard to the rectification of two specific names : (1) PyrrJiula cinereola Temm. PL Col., Livr. ii. pi. xi.

fig. 1 (" Bresil ''), vol. Ill, pi. 96 [wrongly dated December 1824 in the copy at the British Museum (Natural History) and in the ' Catalogue of Birds '] ; correct date September 1820 has priority over Fringilla liypoleuca Licht. Verz, i)oub]. p. 26 (1823J (Brazil).

(2) Sporophila intermedia Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 149, note 1851 (Venezuela), must be used for the bird generally known as Loxia grisea Grmelin, which is undeterminable.

Mr. Geegoky M. Mathews sent the following communication : Proseisura, gen. nov.

Type, Arses lorealis De Vis.

Nesoceryx, gen. nov.

Type, Cliaradrius bicinctus Jardine & Selby.

ADAMASTOR.

The type of vlfamasor-, Bonaparte, 1856, as now designated, is Procellaria cequinoctialis " Edw. etc." = Linne, 1758.

[Editor's Note.—SipMa obscura Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 789 (Borneo), Anthipes obscura, Hand-list of Birds, iii.

p. 219, 1901 = Basileuterus rividaris (Wied), Reise Bras. ii.

p. 103, 1821 (Villa d'llhios, Bahia).]