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orange-trees, &c. He adds that the nests vary much in appearance, some being plain, 
clumsy structures, others being prettily ornamented with leaves and lichens. The 
eggs are similar to those of 2. fammigerus, but smaller, pale greenish-blue, sparsely 
spotted with large dark brown spots and blotches®. Wood found it abundant on the 
Rio Truando, always frequenting a particular kind of tree which grew along the banks 
of the streams, on the fruit of which it fed °. 
8. Rhamphocelus dimidiatus. 
Ramphocelus dimidiatus, Lafr. Mag. Zool. 1837, cl. ii. t. 81°; Scl. P.Z.S. 1856, pp. 129’, 142°; 
1858, p. 73 *; Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1860, p.141°; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N.Y. vii. p.331°; viii. 
p- 175"; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 350°; 1868, p. 627°; 1879, p.501°; Salv. P. Z.S. 
1867, p. 1388"; 1870, p. 187"; Cat. Strick]. Coll. p. 191"; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 326". 
Capite, dorso antico, tectricibus alarum minoribus et gutture obscure coccineis, plumis ad basin nigricantibus ; 
dorso postico, pectore et hypochondriis coccineis, pennis medialiter albis ; abdomine medio, tibiis, alis et 
cauda nigricantibus ; rostro plumbeo ; pedibus nigricanti-plumbeis. Long. tota 6°5, ale 3:1, caude 3:1, 
rostri a rictu 0°75, tarsi 0°9. 
2 marisimilis, sed multo obscurior, capite toto et gula fuscescentioribus, abdomine toto sordide coccineo. (Descr. 
maris et femine ex Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Nicaraeva ? (Delattre?); Panama, Chiriqui (Bridges *), David (Hicks"), Mina de 
Chorcha !2, Castillo 12, Chitra 12, Cordillera del Chucu 1", Calovevora 12, Santa Fé 1! 
(Arcé), Lion Hill (M‘Leannan®’), Paraiso Station (Hughes), Panama (A. H. 
« Markham), Turbo (Wood *).—Cotomsia 1? 1°14; Ecuapor?4; VENEZUELA ®. 
The range of this species is a little more extensive in Central America than that 
of Rhamphocelus icteronotus, as it is found abundantly at Chiriqui, where R. passerinii 
occurs in place of R. icteronotus. It has been recorded from Nicaragua ? on Delattre’s 
authority, but this statement has not been confirmed by subsequent travellers; still 
less that of Lafresnaye that the bird occurs in Mexico!*. As it is absent from Costa 
Rica, it seems probable that it has no such further extension of its range. 
In South America it is confined to the north-western part of the continent, 
occurring near Santa Marta and Cartagena’ and also in the State of Antioquia as 
well as in Western Venezuela. Two specimens in the Strickland Collection at Cam- 
bridge are of the usual make-up of the trade skins of Bogota 1°, but we have not 
seen others from this source. It has been recorded from the valley of the Napo 
in Ecuador, as a female specimen is thus named in Mr. Sclater’s list of the birds of 
that region published in 18584. We have of late years received very extensive 
collections from Eastern Ecuador, but in none have we found specimens of R. dimi- 
diatus ; so that we think it possible that the bird so named may have been a female 
example of F. luctani, which occurs in Peru, as will be seen below. 
Salmon obtained the nest of &. dimidiatus in Antioquia, which he says is placed in 
low bushes, and is composed of small twigs, dead leaves, moss, and lichens. The eggs 
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