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Show 148 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE BIRDS OF LIMA. [Feb. 25, 6. MOLOTHRUS PURPURASCENS, Cassin, Pr. Acad. Phil. 1866, p. 20. No doubt the species spoken of by Cassin under this name (I. ci), but probably not the bird intended by Hahn. Specimens of both sexes. 7. CERYLE CABANISI, Tsch. F. P. Aves, p. 253 ; Sharpe, Alced. pt. 2. 1.16. A single skin of this Kingfisher. 8. RHODOPIS VESPERA (Lesson). " This is one of our rarest Humming-birds, visiting us at long and uncertain intervals. I have seen a single individual in immature plumage occasionally in spring, and once or twice I have seen one in adult plumage in summer. Like Thaumastura cora, it frequents low bushes and flowering plants near the ground. At a distance it resembles the Cora Humming-bird ; but its note is louder and its flight stronger."-W. N. 9. THAUMASTURA FRANCESCAE, Sclater, Cat. A. B. p. 299. Ornismya fanny, Less. " This is the rarest of Lima birds. I saw it for the first time in the winter of 1865 ; in the spring of 1867 I saw it again. In habits it resembles the Cora Humming-bird."-W. N. Mr. Nation sends one young male of this species, the only one he has ever obtained. 10. CROTOPHAGA SULCIROSTRIS, SW. Crotophaga casasii, Tsch. F. P. Aves, p. 256. 11. CHRYSOPTILUS ATRICOLLIS (Malh.). Chrysopicus atricollis, Malh. R. Z. 1850, p. 156 ; Mon. Pic. ii. p. 178, t. 88. f. 4. A male of this distinct species, which I had not previously met with. 12. THINOCORUS RUMTCIVORUS, Eschsch. A single skin of a Thinocorus sent by Prof. Nation agrees very nearly in plumage with skins of T. rumicivorus from Chili, but is very much smaller in dimensions. Before separating it specifically I should like to have an opportunity of examining more specimens. (See remarks, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 989.) 13. PORZANA ERYTHROPS, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 343, t. xxi. • Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 457. A second example of this curious species of Crake. |