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Show 758 ON THE BIRDS OF EASTERN PERU. [June 27, (100.) IODOPLEURA ISABELLA, Parz. Both sexes and the young of this fine species are in the collection. The female is distinguished by the want of the violet side-tufts (as in J. pipra). (106.) CHLOROPIPO, sp.-? A female, probably referable to a species of this genus. Sclater's collection contains a similar skin from Ecuador. (128.) CH/ETURA BRACHYCERCA, sp. nov. (Pl. XXXIV.) AZneo-nigra : dorso inferiore uropyyio et cauda tota cum tectricibus caudce superioribus et inferioribus fuscescenti-cinereis; rachidibus acuminatis nigris : cauda brevissima : rostro et pedibus nigris : long, tota 4*0, alee 4*6, caudce 1*2, tarsi Hab. Peruv. orient. Xeberos (Bartlett). This is a new and very distinct species of the small group of American Ghceturee, remarkable for its short tail. Mr. Bartlett's collection contains nine specimens of it, all from Xeberos. The sexes are alike. (145.) POLYTMUS LEUCORRHOUS, Gould. See our remarks on this species (anted, p. 584). Many specimens of it are in the present collection. (153.) PIAYA MEHLERI, Bp.; Schlegel, Mus. d. P.-B. Cuculi, p. 57. Piaya nigricrissa, Sclater. It appears from Schlegel's recent researches that Sclater was mistaken in considering Bonaparte's type of P. mehleri referable to the Mexican form of this species (cf. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 285), and that the specimen in question was from Bogota. It follows, therefore, that this bird must be called Piaya mehleri. (154.) PIAYA MELANOGASTRA (Vieill.). Cuculus melanogaster, Vieill. N. D. viii. p. 236, et Enc. Meth. p. 1337. Cuculus cay anus, var., Gm. S. N. i. p. 417. Macropus caixana, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 54, t. 43. Piaya brachyptera, Less. Trait, p. 140; Bp. Consp. i. p. 111. P. melanogastra, Schlegel, Mus. d. P.-B. Cuculi, p. 59. Pyrrhococcyx brachypterus, Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 714. Several examples of this bird from Chyavetas. Mr. Eyton's collection contains a skin of the same species from Guia (Wallace). (169.) CELEUS CITREOPYGIUS, sp. nov. Celeus citreopyyius, Bp. M S. Celeo-picusjumana, Malh. Mon. Pic. ii. p. 27 (partim). f . Luride badius : secundariis et interscapulio cum ventre imo et crisso castaneis: dorso postico aurantiaco: primariis extus et cauda nigricantibus : subalaribus citrinofiavis haud fascia- |