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Show 506 MESSRS. SCLATER A N D SALVIN O N [June 3, Fam. FRINGILLID^E. 120. H E D Y M E L E S LUDOVICIANUS (Linn). Several examples without exact localities. This northern species also occurs in Bogota collections. (Mus. S.-G.) 121. GUIRACA CYANOIDES (Lafr.); Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 352. Remedios. (Mus. S.-G.) 122. ORYZOBORUS OCCIDENTALIS, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 276. Medellin. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. Seeds in stomach. To this form of O. crassirostris Bogota skins must also be referred. Eggs (no. 12) greyish brown, indistinctly blotched with lilac-grey, and strongly marked with dark red-brown marks: axis '93, diam. '6. " Not a common bird here. I have seen but one nest, which was built in a low bush in a wild swampy place. It was constructed of the stems of coarse grass, lined with a finer kind, and contained two eggs mottled over with light brown with a few irregular blots and dashes of a darker colour. The female was sitting, and the male perched on a bush at a short distance."-T. K. S. 123. ORYZOBORUS FUNEREUS, Scl. Oryzoborus funereus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 278, et O. eethiops, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 88. Medellin. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. Food, seeds. Eggs (no. 5) greenish white, thickly marked with brown spots, especially at the larger end : axis *73, diam. *55. In our 'Nomenclator' we have united these two species of Sclater's, of which the former was founded on Mexican, the latter on Ecuadorian skins. The points of difference given when the latter was described do not hold when a series is compared ; and the species must be regarded as extending from Southern Mexico through Central America into Colombia and Ecuador. "A not uncommon bird in wild uncultivated places, whereit makes its nest in low bushes, very slight in structure, of dry grass, and lays two eggs, mottled over with brown of different shades, and a few spots of a darker colour."-T. K. S. 124. SPERMOPHILA MINUTA (Linn.); Scl. Ibis, 1871, p. 3. Retiro, Medellin. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. Food, seeds. Eggs (no. 9) white, clearly marked with several shades of rich red-brown spots : axis *65, diam. *51. " Builds in low bushes much the same sort of nest as S. gutturalis, but of coarser grass."-T. K. S. |