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Show 1870.] ON VENEZUELAN BIRDS. 785 Hab. Paramos of Merida (Goering). Obs. Affinis C. castaneicolli, Sclater, et ejusdem formae, quamvis robustior, sed dorso schistaceo et superciliis distinctis, necnon gula tota castanea distinguendus. Mr. Goering obtained a single male specimen of this fine new species near the boundary of the upper wood-region of the Paramos of Merida. The iris is noted as "dark brown." The contents of the stomach were " small fruits." The bird is said to be " very rare." 32. BUARREMON MERIDAE, sp. nov. Supra olivaceus, alis caudaque intus fuscis : pileo toto et nucha castaneis: lateribus capitis 'nigris: vitta mystacali utrinque alba, a gula linea angusta nigra divisa: subtus leete flavus, lateribus et ventre imo in olivaceum trahentibus: rostro nigro, pedibus obscure corylinis : long, tota 6*5, alee 2*8, caudce 3*2, tarsi 1. Hab. Merida (Goering). Obs. Proximus B. albifrcenato, sed gula flava nee alba, et fronte pileo concolori, nee nigro, diversus. But one example of this apparently new Buarremon is in Mr. Goering's collection, obtained near Merida in July 1869. It is marked " male ; iris reddish brown." 34. PHRYGILUS UNICOLOR (Lafr. et D'Orb.). Phrygilus unicolor et P. geospizopsis, Scl. Cat. A m . B. p. 110. Chlorospiza plumbea, Ph. et Landb. Wiegm. Arch. 1864, p. 67. Mr. Goering sends us a pair of this species from the Paramos of Merida. Upon comparing them with a series of eleven specimens in Sclater's collection from various parts of the highlands of Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, and also with Chilian specimens obtained in the Cordillera of Santiago and transmitted by Herr Landbeck as typical of Chlorospiza plumbea, we are of opinion that these birds are all referable to one species, as Sclater has already hinted (I s c and P. Z. S. 1857, p. 322). 35. CHRYSOMITRIS XANTHOGASTRA, DU Bus, Bull. Ac Brux xxii. pt. 1, p. 152 (1853). Chrysomitris bryanti, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1865, p. 91; Lawr. Ann. L. N. Y. ix. p. 104. This Finch was originally described from examples procured near Ocafia in Columbia, not far distant from Merida. W e have likewise met with it in Bogota collections ; and in Sclater's cabinet is a skin of the same species obtained by Mr. David Forbes, F.R.S., in Bolivia. Moreover, on comparing it with Costa-Rican examples of C. bryanti in Salvin's collection we cannot discover any differences so that it is evidently a species of wide range, though, apparently nowhere very common. 38. CYANOCITTA ARMILLATA (G. R. Gray). Two examples of a Cyanocitta, obtained in May 1869 in the |