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Show 508 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON [June 3, 133. EUSPIZA AMERICANA (Gm.) No exact locality given. (Mus. S.-G.) This northern species also occurs in Bogotd collections. 134. CHRYSOMITRIS COLUMBIANA (Lafr.); Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 124. Concordia, Retiro, Sta. Elena, Medellin. (Mus. S.-G.) Eggs (no. 4) pale greenish white : axis *65, diam. *45. " This species builds a pretty nest, often artfully placed on the branch of a fruit-tree. It is composed externally of dried grass intermixed with moss, cotton, and lichen ; sometimes the cotton abounds: it is very carefully finished and delicately lined with hair. The eggs are three in number, white, slightly tinged with blue, without any spots. It breeds in June and July, and is a very common bird. The young first assume the plumage of the female; and after the breeding-season they are generally seen in flocks of ten or twelve."-T. K. S. 135. CHRYSOMITRIS XANTHOGASTRA, Du Bus; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 785. Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G.) This Siskin is widely distributed, extending from Costa Rica into Bolivia. It occurs in Bogota collections. Eggs (no. 10) pale greenish white, thickly but faintly freckled with lilac and brownish spots: axis *7, diam. *5. Fam. ICTERID^E. 136. O C Y A L U S -WAGLERI (Gray & Mitch.); Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 127. Pocune, Remedios. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris blue. Eggs (no. 150) pale greenish white, blotched with sepia spots of various sizes : axis 1*3, diam. *88. (Plate XLIII. fig. 3.) 137. OSTINOPS DECUMANUS (Pall.) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1879, p. 200. Remedios. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris blue. Eggs (no. 149) pale greenish blue, sparsely spotted with dark-brown spots: axis 1*3, diam. 1. 138. OSTINOPS GUATEMOZINUS, Bp. Compt. Rend, xxxviii. p. 833, et Notes s. 1. Coll. Delattre, p. 10 (1853) ; Cassin, Pr. Acad. Phil. 1860, p. 138; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 35. Remedios. (Mus. P. L. S. and S.-G.) Iris blue. Eggs (no. 148) pale pinkish white, sparsely spotted with large red-brown spots: axis 1*3, diam. 1. These are the first specimens we have ever seen of this fine species, except the type in the Paris Museum and the specimen in Washing- |