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Show 536 MESSRS. SCLATER A N D SALVIN O N [June 3, uniform colour above, the feathers of the front and vertex merely slightly edged with brown. The tail is nearly square as in other Brachygalbce; the bill is quite black. 344. JACAMEROPS GRANDIS (Gm.) ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 268. Remedios. Iris dark. Fam. BUCCONID^;. 345. Bucco PECTORALIS, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. pi. 26 ; Scl. Syn. Bucc. p. 8. Neche. A species hitherto only known from Panama. 346. Bucco SUBTECTUS, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 270. Neche. 347. Bucco RADIATUS, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 271. Remedios, Neche.* (Mus. S.-G. and P. L. S.) The type specimen of this species (Mus. P. L. S.) is rather whiter below ; but a Bogota skin exactly agreeing with Mr. Salmon's specimens is in Sclater's collection. 348. MALACOPTILA CASTANEA, Verreaux, Rev. de Zool. xviii. p. 355, pi. xix. (1866). Frontino. (Mus. S.-G. and P. L. S.) Mr. Salmon's skins of this fine species agree with others from Ecuador. The type is said to have been received from Bogota. 349. MALACOPTILA PANAMENSIS, Lafr.; Scl. et Salv. P. Z.S. 1870, p. 201. Remedios. (Mus. P. L. S.) Mr. Salmon's skins cannot be distinguished from Central-American specimens. 350. MONASA PALLESCENS, Cassin, Pr. Ac Phil. 1860, p. 134, et 1864, p. 287, t. iv.; Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1871, p. 374. Remedios, Neche. (Mus. S.-G. and P. L. S.) Iris dark. Stomach contained lizards &c Fam. CUCULIDAE. 351. CROTOPHAGA ANI (Linn.); Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 320. Retiro, Medellin. Iris dark. " The nest is simply a mass of sticks with a side entrance. It ia generally reported by the natives that several birds lay their eggs in the same nest."-T. K. S. 352. CROTOPHAGA MAJOR, Linn.; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 320. Neche. |