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Show 72 MR. O. SALVIN ON NEW BIRDS FROM VERAGUA. [Jail. 23, examining it I find a few concealed chestnut feathers at the back the head. I believe that it is a young male of the bird I now describe. The tail, however, is quite black, the crissum greyer than the female E. rufivertex, and the wings darker, having assumed the male character. E. gracilis, Cab., described from immature specimens, is said to have a clear-yellow belly, and the forehead also yellow. The forehead in this young bird shows none of the rufous of the adult female E. rufivertex. This makes the eleventh or twelfth species of Euphonia found in the great isthmus between the Americas. 4. BUARREMON MESOXANTHUS, Sp. n. B. supra olivaceus, pileo medio cum froute castaneis : loris, re-gione oculari et tectricibus auricularibus cinereo-nigris: subtus plumis in gula albis, basibus nigris et nigro terminatis, versus pectus fere omnino cinereis : pectore, corporis lateribus et crisso olivaceis, ventre medio Imte flavo : alis fuscis, extus olivaceis dorso concoloribus : cauda fusca : rostro superiore corneo, inferior e albido : pedibus fuscis. Long, tota 6 poll., alae 2"85, caudae 2*5, rostri a rictu "7, tarsi 1*1. Hab. in Veragua. Obs. Affinis B. castaneicipiti, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 441, sed gula hand cinerea et ventre medio flavo facile dignoscendus. In addition to the above differences, which at once distinguish this bird from B. castaneiceps, the bill shows some strong ridges, which, proceeding from the nasal hollow, run parallel to the culmen. 5. PHILYDOR FUSCIPENNIS, sp. n. P. cinnamomeus, pileo et capitis lateribus obscu?'ioribus, dorso obscuriore et olivaceo tincto : stria postoculari, corpore subtus et tectricibus subalaribus cinnamomeis; gulapallidiore; ventre, anum versus brunnescentiore: alis fuscis: cauda et uropygio intense cinnamomeis: rostro et pedibus fuscis. Long, tota 6 poll., alae 3 5 , caudae 2-75, tarsi *75, rostri a rictu "8. Hab. Veragua. Obs. Affinis P. pyrrhodi (Cab., Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 689), sed uropygio et cauda rufescentioribus et obscurioribus, dorso magis cinnamomeo et corpore subtus brunnescentiore dignoscendus. This species seems quite distinct from P. rufobrunneus, Lawrence (Ann. of N . Y. Lye. M a y 1865), which is described as having the upper tail-coverts dark rufous brown, each feather of the breast with a light ferruginous stripe down its centre, outer webs of the quills the same colour as the back, &c. It is, in fact, very nearly allied to P. pyrrhodes, with which I have compared it. 6. DYSITHAMNUS PUNCTICEPS, sp. n. <5 . D. supra cinereus, plumis pilei a fronte ad nucham nigris cinereo excisis et macula in pogonio utrinque subapicali alba: capitis lateribus albo fascialis, loris albidis : alis fuscis, extus cinertis dorso concoloribus, tectricibus alarum macula alba ter- |