3 '2 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXXIV. 1928. BIRD NOTES. By GREGORY M. MATHEWS. Pseudolalage gen. nov. Differs from Lalage in having rictal bristles ; the bill is more slender. The feathers on the rump not so sleek. The feathers of this bird are fluffy, not hard as in Lalage. Type : Lalage banhsiana Gray. Analisoma gen. nov. Differs from Edolisoma Pucheran, in having a thicker, heavier biU, and from Graucalus in having the nostrils not covered with feathers, and placed differently. Type : Campephaga analis Verreaux et des Murs, 1860. Lisomada gen. nov. Differs from Edolisoma Pucheran, in having the sexes alike. The tail is also shorter in proportion to the wing measurement. Type : Volvocivora inspirator Finsch. Lophomyiagra gen. nov. Differs from Myiagra in having a crest of feathers ; the nostrils are placed farther from the base of the bill, not partially hidden. Type : Myiagra azureocapilla Layard 1875. Oscarornis gen. nov. Differs from Lalage Boie in having a distinct biU, showing it to be the most primitive form. Type : Lalage sharpei Rothschild. Melanojntta Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiana, vol. ii, No. 11, p. 317 {Consp. Voluc. Anisod. p. 7), before August 28th, 1854, was introduced for certain birds, amongst which, as first species, was Pitta cucullata of Hartlaub. The next year Gray, p. 144, designated this as type. No black Pitta was known then. In 1871, Schlegel, in Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. vol. iv, p. 47, described a new genus and species as Melampitta lugubris from Arfak, N.W. New Guinea. In 1885, Stejneger in the Standard Nat. Hist. vol. iv, p. 466, introduced the genus Mellopittdiox lugubris Schl. only. In 1888, Sclater, writing the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, vol. xiv, used on p. 449 Coracopitta, and in a footnote adds Melampitta in its correct form. Melanopitta is already in use for a subgenus of Pitta. I propose therefore to replace it by Coracopitta.
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