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Show 1879.] BIRDS FROM ANTIOQUIA. 509 ton. It is of the size and structure of O. montezumce, from which, and from 0. bifasciatus Mr. Cassin has accurately pointed out its differences in a footnote (op. cit. p. 138). The Paris specimen is from the Magdalena valley (Fontanier), that of Cassin from the river Truando (Wood). 139. OSTINOPS ATROCASTANEUS, Cab. Journ. f. 0. 1873, p. 309. Envigado, Concordia, Frontino. (Mus. P. L. S. and S.-G.) Iris red. Eggs (no. 113) reddish salmon-colour, blotched and spotted with large burnt-sienna spots chiefly at the larger end. In some specimens the spots are smaller and darker; in others the ground-colour is much darker and the spots paler and more diffused: axis 1*46, diam. 1.05. (See Plate XLIII. figs. 1, 2.) Dr. Cabanis has, we think, fairly distinguished this form from the allied O. atrovirens. Specimens from Ecuador (O. atrovirens, Scl. P. Z.S. 1859, p. 140, et 1860, p. 88, nee d'Orb.) are apparently similar; but the Bogota bird (0. sincipitalis, Cab. I. c.) is not so darkly coloured, although nearer the present form than to the southern O. atrovirens. 140. CASSICUS FLAVICRISSUS, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 276. Remedios. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris blue. Eggs (no. 151) white, sparingly spotted with dark brown, chiefly at tbe larger end: axis 1*2, diam. *8. 141. CASSICUS UROPYGIALIS, Lafr. R. Z. 1843, p. 290. Jerico. (Mus, S.-G.) 142. CASSICUS LEUCORHAMPHUS (Bp.); Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 129. Envigado, Concordia, Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. 143. ICTERUS GIRAUDI, Cassin ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 133. Envigado, Concordia, Medellin. (Mus. S.-G.) Insects and fruit in stomach. Eggs (no. 66) pale grey, blotched and streaked with dark brown and grey: axis 1*15, diam. *72. 144. ICTERUS MESOMELAS, Wagl.; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 133. Neche. 145. DOLICHONYX ORYZIVORUS (Linn.) Medellin. 146. MOLOTHRUS DISCOLOR (Vieill.); Cassin, Pr. Acad. Sc. Phil. 1866, p. 20 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 37. Concordia, Medellin, Sta. Elena. (Mus. P. L. S. and S.-G.) Egg3 (no. 46) pinkish white, thickly freckled with red, especially at the larger end : axis 1, diam. *8. |