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534 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN O N T H E CRACIDAE. [JUNE 9, 4. ORTALIDA WAGLERI. Ortalida wagleri, G. R. Gray, List of Gall. p. 11 (1867). Supra olivacea, pileo nigricanti-plumbeo : subtus cinereo-olivacea, abdomine, hypochondriis, tibiis et crisso intense rufis : recti'icibus quatuor utrinque externis rufo terminatis, reliquis eeneo-viride-scentibus: long, tota 26-5, alee 10, caudce 12, tarsi 3. Hab. Western Mexico, near Mazatlan (Grayson). Mus. Brit., Paris., Smithson. The bright red belly renders this fine species almost unmista­kable, its nearest ally being the following, in which the abdomen is only slightly rufescent. The only exact locality we have met with for this species is M a ­zatlan, in the vicinity of which Col. Grayson obtained two skins, now in the Smithsonian collection. His notes state that the iris is dark brown, the feet grey, the bare space round the eye red and blue, and the bare sides of the throat red. 5. ORTALIDA RUFICAUDA. Ortalida ruficauda, Jard. Ann. N. H. xx. p. 374 (1847); et Contr. Orn. 1848, p. 16, t. 4. Ortalida bronzina, G. R. Gray, List of Gall. p. 11 (1867). Supra eeneo-fusca, pileo fuscescenti-plumbeo: subtus ochracea, gut­ture et pectore ceneo perfusis : subalaribus, hypochondriis et crisso castaneis: cauda aneo-viridi, rectricibus quinque externis castaneo terminatis: rostro plumbeo, apice flavicante; pedibus obscure carneis: long, tota 19, alee 7*8, caudce 9, tarsi 2*2. Hab. Tobago (Kirk) ; Venezuela (Mus. Berol. et Paris.). Mus. Brit., BeroL, Paris., S.-G. Two examples of this species in the Berlin Museum from Vene­zuela were formerly confounded with O. poliocephala. W e have taken our description from one of Kirk's original specimens, kindly pre­sented to us by Sir William Jardine. W e have compared this with O. bronzina, and find them identical. This Ortalida probably also occurs in Trinidad, but is not men­tioned by M . Le'otaud. Specimens in the Paris Museum, transmitted by M . Beauperthuy, have been likewise erroneously named polio­cephala. 6. ORTALIDA CANICOLLIS. Jacii caraguata, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 77 (no. 336). Penelope canicollis, Wagl. Isis, 1830, p. 1112. Ortalida canicollis, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 1227; Hartlaub, Ind. Az. p. 22; Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 286. Supra eeneo-fusca, pileo cinereo: subtus magis ochracea, gutture et pectore ceneo perfusis et hoc preecipue griseo subobsolete punctatis subalaribus, hypochondriis et crisso castaneis : cauda eeneo-viridi, rectricibus quinque externis castaneo late terminatis : rostro flavi­cante; pedibus pallide corylinis: long, tota 22, alee 9*8, caudce 10*tarsi 2*5.