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Show 502 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN O N [June 3, 90. PYRANGA ^ESTIVA (Gm.) Concordia, Frontino. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. 91. PYRANGA TESTACEA, Scl. et Salv. P. Z.S. 1868, p. 388. Concordia, Medellin. (Mus. S.-G. and P. L. S.) Mr. Salmon's skins appear to be referable to this Central-American form rather than to the Brazilian P. saira. 92. PYRANGA RUBRICEPS, Gray; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 125. Medellin, Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G. and P. L. S.) Iris dark. In the female of this species, of which Mr. Salmon has sent a single specimen (Mus. P. L. S.), the scarlet colour is confined to the summit of the head and the throat, instead of pervading the upper back and breast as in the male. 93. ORTHOGONYS OLIVACEUS, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. I860, p. 140, et ibid. 1864, pi. ii. Remedios, Neche. (Mus. S.-G. and P. L. S.) Iris dark. Food, fruit. Mr. Salmon has sent home two skins of this remarkable bird, which upon the whole has, we think, been correctly assigned by Mr. Cassin to Orthogonys, though not quite typical in form. It has proportionally snorter wings and tail. Mr. Cassin's specimens were obtained during the Atrato Expedition on the river Truando. With this exception no other examples, so far as we are aware, are known. 94. PHCENICOTHRAUPIS GUTTURALIS, Scl. Ann. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 95 (1854); Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 326. Remedios. (Mus. P. L. S. and S.-G.) Iris dark. Food, fruit. Eggs (no. 96) pale greyish white, mottled, especially at the larger end, with red-brown and lilac spots: axis 1*1, diam. *71. (See Plate XLII. fig. 4.) " The nest is cup-shaped, rather deep, and loosely made of coarse roots and fibres, lined with fine stalks &c. of ferns, and placed in low bushes by the side of mountain-streams."-T. K. S. 95. PHCENICOTHRAUPIS CRISTATA, Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. H. New York, xi. p. 70(1875). Frontino. (Mus. P. L. S. and S.-G.) Tris dark. Two examples of this species, which, though like P. rubica and its allies in coloration, differs, as Mr. Lawrence remarks, in its well-developed crest. |