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Show 1866.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON NEW AMERICAN BIRDS. 323 Typus et sp. unica S.jardinii. Grisescenti-plumbea, alis caudaque nigricantibus, dorsi colore limbatis: subtus vix dilutior, crisso albicante striato: rostro nigricanti-plumbeo tomiis pallidis, pedibus corylinis : long, tota 4'7, alar 2*85, caudar 1*9, rostri a rictu 0*5, tarsi 0'65. Hab. in sylvis reipubl. iEquatorialis. Mus. P. L. S. et Gul. Jardine, Baronett. I am greatly indebted to m y friend Sir William Jardine for allowing me to abstract from his collection a skin of this interesting bird, which must, I think, be referred to a new form of the family Cosre-bidar, distinguishable by its thickened, almost Conirostral bill. A second example of the same species, obtained, like the former, by Professor Jameson in the Quitian Andes, remains in Sir William's possession. The whole plumage of Spodiornis is plumbeous or dark cinereous, the wings and tail being blackish, edged, except in the primaries and outer rectrices, with plumbeous. The colour below is rather paler, especially on the crissum, where there are faint whitish stria-tions. The general appearance of the bird reminds one at once of the very similarly coloured Finch found in Bogota collections, which in my 'American Catalogue' I have called Phrygilus geospizopsis (op. |