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Show 516 MESSRS. S C L A T E R A N D S A L V I N O N [J 188. T Y R A N N U S M E L A N C H O L I C U S (Vieill.); Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 235. Retiro, Medellin. Iris dark ; food, insects ; builds in trees. Eggs (no. 27) pale salmon-colour, spotted, especially in a zone round the larger end, with red-brown, red, and lilac spots: axis 1*0, diam. *7. (Mus. Brit.) " The nest of this bird is built upon a spreading branch near the top of low trees; it is made of small twigs lined with black dry fibrous roots, and is generally a slight structure. The eggs, two in number, are white tinged with pink, and spotted, mostly at the larger end, with blood-red. In Tierra Fria it breeds in the months of March and April, in Tierra Caliente in M a y and June. The young resemble the old ones, with the exception of the orange-coloured feathers on the head. It is a noisy, quarrelsome bird, continually attacking and driving away all intruders from its domain."-T. K. S. , 189. MILVULUS TYRANNUS (Linn.). Retiro, Medellin. Eggs (no. 55) creamy white, spotted with distinct spots of dark red, especially at the larger end ; axis *9, diam. *65. (Mus. Brit.) " This species builds its nest on the spreading branches of trees, generally at no great height, making it of grass-stalks, roots, and fibres, intermixed with cotton, silk and a variety of other substances ; sometimes it is lined with dry roots, at others entirely with grass. The male is almost invariably perched on some conspicuous branch while the female is sitting. Builds always in the open country, never in the forest."-I7. K. S. Fam. PIPRID,E. 190. M A S I U S C O R O N U L A T U S , Scl. P. Z.S. 1860, p. 91, et Cat. A. B. p. 247, pi. xix. In 1875 M r Salmon sent home a single skin of the male of this form, now in Sclater's collection. It differs from typical examples from Ecuador in having the thick flattened horny ends of the feathers which terminate the crest of a pale brown instead of a red colour ; but we are not inclined to separate the form specifically on the faith of this single specimen. 191. CHLOROPIPO FLAVICVPILLA (Scl.), Cat. A. B. p. 247. Medellin. (Mus. S.-G.) Mr. Salmon's specimens differ from Bogotd skins in having the yellow of the upper surface confined to the crown and nape, the back and cheeks being olivaceous ; otherwise the birds agree, and are hardly separable specifically. 192. PIPRA AURICAPILLA, Licht.; Scl. Cat. p. 249. Remedios and Neche. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris white. |