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Show 1881.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE BIRDS OF LIMA. 485 1. BUARREMON NATIONI, sp. nov. (Plate XLVI.) Supra obscure cinereus, pileo nigricante, fronte loris et regione auriculari nigris; alis caudaque nigricantibus, extus cinereo adumbratis: subtus purius cinereus, gutture {striga utrinque rictali ornato) et pectore medio albis; ventre medio crissoque cinnamomeis ; subalaribus et remigum marginibus internis albis ; rostro nigro; pedibus cornels. Long. tot. 7'8, ala? 3*3, cauda? 3*4, tarsi Tl. Hab. Western Andes of Peru, above Lima, alt. 10,000 to 14,000 feet. Mus. P. L. S. This is quite a new bird to me. Mr. Nation sends it as " Pipilo mystacalis;" and I should have preferred to employ his name, had there not been already a species of Buarremon with that title attached to it. I have had some doubt whether to place this species in the genus Buarremon (where its nearest allied forms are B. gutturalis and B. albinuchus), or among the Finches in or near the genera Pyrgisoma and Atlapetes. The Tanagridae and Fringillidae (as I have arranged them) come very close at this point; and I do not pretend to say that the distinction between them is not more or less of an arbitrary nature. On the whole it seems most consonant with structure and geography to arrange this bird amongst the Buarremones; and I propose to name it after its discoverer, who has been so long an ardent student of the Peruvian avifauna. The bill of B. nationi is rather thicker and stronger than that of P. albinuchus; and its culmen is rather straighter. In its generally cinereous colour and cinnamomeous belly and under tail-coverts it is rather divergent from other species of the genus. Prof. Nation's notes on it are as follows:- " This beautiful bird is found on the western sides of the Cordillera, at an altitude of 10,000 to 14,000 feet. " I have received many examples, male and female. The sexes are similar ; the few white feathers on the head are seen in both the male and female, and always present. Food, seeds and coleopterous insects. Total length 8 inches, whig 4. Irides reddish brown."-W. N. In our ' Nomenclator' Mr. Salvin and I assigned twenty species to the genus Buarremon. Since its publication the following ten additional species have been described :- 1. B. inomatus, Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1879, p. 426, ex iEquator, 2. B. melanolcemus, Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1879, p. 425, pi. x., ex Peruv. 3. B. melanops, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 253, ex Boliv. 4. B. spodionotus, Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1879, p. 425, ex iEquat. 5. B. comptus, Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1879, p. 426, ex iEquat. 6. B. elceoprorus, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 504, ex Columb. 7. B. tricolor, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 515, pi. lxv., ex Peruv. 8. B. taczanowskii, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1875, pa 236, pi. xxxv. fig. 2, ex Peruv. |
