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flanks. These points of distinction are not difficult to recognize ; and as they appear to 
be strictly associated with a definite area, the use of a distinct name for the bird seems 
to be justified. The best accounts of Harporhynchus longirostris are those given by 
Dr. Merrill ® and Mr. Sennett !°, who both observed it in considerable numbers on the 
Texan side of the valley of the Rio Grande, where it is a resident bird. The habits of 
the species are fully described by these authors in their respective papers. 
Several years before Lafresnaye described the bird! Deppe met with it at Jalapa; and 
his specimens are still in the Berlin Museum. Most of the more recent collectors have 
since met with it in the same district ; and Prof. Sumichrast § says that it is quite common 
in the temperate region in the vicinity of Orizaba, ranging from an elevation of 3300 
feet to 6600 feet above the sea. We have no record of the occurrence of the bird in 
any part of Western Mexico; and its range seems to be strictly confined to the eastern 
part of the country, from the valley of the Rio Grande on the north to the State of Vera 
Cruz on the south. 
2. Harporhynchus ocellatus. 
Harporhynchus ocellatus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 18, t. iii? 
Supra fusco-cinereus ; alarum tectricibus albo terminatis ; caude rectricibus, preter quatuor medias, albo stricte 
terminatis ; subtus albus, pectore et hypochondriis maculis rotundatis nigris conspicue notatis; gula et 
abdomine medio immaculatis; hypochondriis et capitis lateribus paulo rufescenti tinctis ; rostro nigro, 
pedibus corylinis. Long. tota 11-5, ale 4:1, caude 5:5, rostri a rictu 15, tarsi 1-5. (Descr. maris ex 
Oaxaca, Mexico merid. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Boucard !, Fenochio). 
Of this species hardly any thing is known. It was described from a single male spe- 
cimen sent by M. Boucard from the neighbourhood of Oaxaca; and from the same dis- 
trict we have received another bird of the same sex from Don A. Fenochio. No account 
has reached us of its habits. The species is a well-marked one, as Mr. Sclater says 1, the 
large round black spots on the clear white under surface rendering it easily distinguish- 
able from every known member of the group. 
3. Harporhynchus curvirostris. 
Orpheus curvirostris, Swains. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 83697. 
Toxostoma curvirostre, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1857, p. 212°. 
Harporhynchus curvirostris, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 370°; Baird, Rev. Am. B. p. 45°; Sumichrast, 
Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H.i. p. 543°; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 267°; Lawr. Bull. 
U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 4, p.12"; Sennett, Bull. U. 8. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 4°; Merrill, Pr. U.S. 
Nat. Mus. i. p. 119°. 
Turdus deflexus, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vég., cf. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 57”. 
Pomatorhinus turdinus, Temm. Pl. Col. 441". 
Toxostoma vetula, Wag). Isis, 1881, p. 528”. 
