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Mexico, C. olivaceus on the other hand having the middle of the crown ashy grey, the 
sides being darker. Dr. Cabanis described the species from a Guatemalan specimen, but 
without stating the part of the country from which it came. The only birds in our 
collection that fully answer to Dr. Cabanis’s description were all obtained in volcanoes 
of Agua and Fuego at elevations varying from 3000 to 8000 feet. This species is a bird 
of the forest, where it is met with in parties of six or more individuals. It is sprightly 
and active, hopping restlessly about the lower branches of the trees, often coming near 
an observer, when the white eye-spot is very conspicuous. 
Nothing is known of its nest or eggs 
3. Chlorospingus olivaceus. 
Poospiza olivacea, Bp. Consp. i. p. 4737. 
Chlorospingus olivaceus, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 90°. 
Chlorospingus ophthalmicus, Sel. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 32°. 
Hab. Guatemana, Coban 3 (0. S.), Kamkal, San Gerénimo (0. 8. & F. D. G.). 
The Chlorospingus of Alta Vera Paz is distinguished by having a light grey streak 
running along the middie of the occiput, and is doubtless the bird described by 
Bonaparte under this name, though the locality he doubtfully gives as “Brazil” is 
incorrect. Mr. Sclater examined the type in the Paris Museum, and recognized a 
bird in his collection as belonging to the same species, and both as probably prepared 
by the French collector Delattre, who, as is well known, explored the country round 
Coban. 
Our example from Kamkal, a village a little below Coban, is rather darker on the 
head than our Coban specimens, but the lighter occiput is still visible. 
~The Coban bird was called C. ophthalmicus in 1860 8, but it is clearly distinct from 
the Mexican species, which has a brown head. 
4. Chlorospingus albitemporalis. 
Tachyphonus albitempora, Latr. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 12}. 
Chlorospingus albitemporalis, Scl. P.Z.S. 1856, p. 89°; Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1865, p. 171°; Lawr. 
Ann. Lye. N.Y. ix. p. 101°; Salv. P. Z. 8S. 1870, p. 188°; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, 
p. 627°; 1879, p. 602’. 
Supra lete olivaceus ; pileo et capitis lateribus nigricanti-brunneis, superciliis posticis cum macula postoculari 
albis ; subtus gutture fuscescenti-albido, striis minutis fuscis adsperso, abdomine medio albo ; pectore, hypo- 
chondriis et crisso viridescenti-flavis ; rostro nigricante, pedibus obscure plumbeis. Long. tota 5:2, ale 
2-7, caudex 2°3, rostri a rictu 0°52, tarsi 0°8. (Descr. maris ex Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
mari omnino similis. 
Hab. Costa Rica, San José (v. Frantzius * +), Turrialba *, Barranca +, Dota 4 (Carmio 1), 
San Mateo* (Cooper); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé *)—Cotompta 12; 
VENEZUELA 2°; Botivia 27. 
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