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Show 1879.] BIRDS FROM ANTIOQUIA. 517 193. PIPRA CYANEOCAPILLA, Hahn ; Scl. Cat. p. 249. Medellin, Remedios, and Neche. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. 194. MACH^;ROPTERUSSTRIOLATUS(BP.); Scl. Ibis, 1862,p. 176. Medellin, Remedios, and Neche. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. 195. CHIROMACH^ERIS MANACUS (Linn.); Scl. Cat. p. 252. Remedios and Neche. (Mus. Brit.) Iris red. Eggs (no. 155) reddish white, thickly blotched with longitudinal blotches of dull red, the blotches being almost confluent in a zone round the larger end : axis *82, diam. *6. (See Plate XLII. fig. 11.) " Builds a slight shallow nest of grasses, which is suspended from the fork of a branch in low shrubs."-T. K. S. 196. CHIROMACH^ERIS VITELLINA (Gould); Scl. Cat. p. 253. Cauca, Remedios. (Mus. Brit.) Eggs (no. 105) creamy white (reddish in some specimens), thickly blotched with chocolate-red : blotches in some specimens almost, in others quite confluent at the larger end : axis *85, diam. *6. (See Plate XLII. fig. 10.) This is a more southern locality than has yet been recorded for the present species. Fam. COTINGID^E. 197. TITYRA PERSONATA, Jard. et Selb.; Scl. Cat. p. 238. Remedios and Neche. (Mus. Brit.) Iris dark red. Fruit in stomach. Egg (no. 95) white: axis 1, diam. *8. " The nest is placed almost on a level with the entrance in the hole of a decayed tree, and composed of a little dry grass."-T. K. S. 198. TITYRA ALBITORQUES, DU BUS; Scl. Cat. p. 239 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z.S. 1867, p. 757. Remedios. (Mus. P. L. S.) 199. HADROSTOMUS HOMOCHROUS, Scl. Cat A. B. p. 240. Remedios. (Mus. Brit.) Eggs (no. 103) chocolate-brown, with a zone of indistinct spots round the larger end : axis *9, diam. *65. (See Plate XLII. fig. 12.) "A large massive nest for so small a bird, has an entrance at the side; but there is nothing artistic or pretty about it; it is simply a mass of almost any substance that can be found, no doubt made in that way to protect the eggs and young from the heavy rains, it being always placed in a very exposed position at the extremity of the branch of a high tree. The bird seems to take a long time in building its nest; one I observed was more than a month before it had eggs. I had the pleasure of seeing the first piece of grass placed, |