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several times found it abundant in the outskirts of the forest near Yzabal, some patches of 
one of the more slender species of bamboo being its favourite resort. . passerinii is 
quite unknown from the western forests of Guatemala, which stretch to the shores of the 
Pacific. In Costa Rica v. Frantzius also considers it an inhabitant of the eastern forests, 
where he describes it as common !*; we have, however, specimens from our collector 
Arcé, which were from La Barranca on the western slope of the mountain-range. In 
the neighbourhood of Chiriqui it has long been known to occur on the Pacific side of 
the Cordillera. Chiriqui seems to be the extreme limit of its range in this direction, 
for at Santiago de Veraguas, and thence to western South America, f. tcteronotus 
entirely takes its place, the two birds never apparently being found in the same 
district. 
2. Rhamphocelus icteronotus. 
Ramphocelus icteronotus, Bp. P. Z. 8S. 1837, p. 121°; Rev. Zool. 1838, p. 8°; DuBus, Esq. Orn. 
t.15°; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 181°; 1859, p. 189°; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1860, p. 141°; 
Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 2977; Scl. & Salv. P.Z.S. 1864, p. 350°; 1879, p. 501°; 
Salv. P. Z.S. 1867, p. 189; Tacz. P. Z. 8S. 1877, p. 332”. 
Ramphocelus varians, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 216”. 
Velutino-niger, dorso toto postico letissime flavo ; rostro plumbeo; pedibus plumbeo-nigris. Long. tota 6-5, ale 
3°2, caude 2°9, rostri a rictu 0°75, tarsi 0-9. 
© supra fusca, alis intus et cauda nigricantibus, dorso postico et corpore toto subtus flavis. (Descr. maris et 
feminse ex Lion Hill, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Panama, Santiago de Veraguas (Arcé}), Lion-Hill Station (I/‘Leannan? 8), 
Paraiso Station (Hughes), Turbo and the rivers Atrato and Truando (Wood *).— 
CotomBiaA 9; Ecuapor?®>; Perv 2. 
This beautiful species, which has no near ally in its genus, belongs to the forest- 
region of Peru and Ecuador west of the Andes, and thence passes northward through 
the lower part of the Cauca Valley in Colombia and into the isthmus of Panama to 
the province of Veraguas, beyond which it has not been found, Rhamphocelus passerinii 
taking its place in Chiriqui and in the rest of Central America. 
Rhamphocelus icteronotus was first briefly described by Bonaparte in the ‘ Proceedings 
of the Zoological Society’ for 18371, and subsequently more at length in the ‘Revue 
Zoologique’ (1838). Some eight or nine years afterwards DuBus gave drawings of it 
in his ‘ Esquisses Ornithologiques’ from specimens obtained near Guayaquil in Ecuador 3, 
in the western part of which Republic Fraser also met with it near Pallatanga and 
other places, where he says it is commonly seen on orange-trees®. It has also been 
obtained at other points on the west coast of Colombia, at San Buenaventura by 
Delattre*, and at Choco Bay by Capt. Kellett*. Salmon, who found it at Remedios 
and Nechi in the State of Antioquia *, obtained its nest, which he describes as made of 
small twigs, moss, and dead leaves, lined with fibrous roots, and placed in low bushes, 
