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Show 136 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON BIRDS [Feb. 5, During his journey across South America Prof. Steere made a collection of 911 skins of birds, belonging to about 362 species of the following groups:- ex. 1. Passeres 503 2. Cypseli 108 3. Pici 23 4. Coccyges 93 5. Psittaci 35 6. Striges 14 7. Accipitres.... 23 8. Steganopedes. 3 sp. ex. sp. 145 9. Herodiones ..13 9 52 10. Anseres 5 4 17 11. Columbae 27 14 45 12. Gallinae 7 5 16 13. Grues 4 4 5 14. Limicolae .... 41 18 16 15. Gavise 7 5 3 16. Crypturi 5 4 As might have been expected from the fact of Prof. Steere not having made a lengthened stay at any of the localities visited, the greater number of the specimens which he collected belong to well-known species, which we have named according to our ' No-menclator Avium Neotropicalium.' But there are examples of twenty-two species amongst them, either unknown to us or otherwise of interest, concerning which we have the following notes to offer. 1. ORYZOBORUS ATRIROSTRIS, sp. nov. Ater ceneo-nitens unicolor; remigibus primariis ad basin albis, speculum parvum tectricibus absconditum efficientibus; rostro crasso, nigro; cauda paulum rotundata: long, tota 6*0, alee 2*9, cauda 2*7, tarsi 0*75. a. Head of Oryzoborus crassirostris. b. Head ol" O. atrirostris. Hab. Moyobamba, Peru (Steere). Obs. Ab O. crassirostri et affinibus rostro robustiore et uigro diversus. This Oryzoborus, of which Prof. Steere only obtained a single example, now in the Museum of the University of Michigan, is quite new to us \ It is readily distinguishable from O. crassiros- 1 Sporophila othcllo, Bp. Consp. i. p. 498, ex Am. Centr. (Mus. Berol.) is unknown to us and indeterminable, unless the type is existent. |