CARPODECTES.—CHASMORHYNCHUS. 141 
extus pallide griseo limbatis: subtus dilutior, abdomine imo, subcaudalibus, subalaribus et tibiis alhican- 
tibus; cauda supra nigricante, subtus cinerea. (Descr. femine ex Costa Rica. Mus. Boucard.) 
Hab. Nicaragua, Greytown (Holland?); Costa Rica, Tucurriqui (Arcé1), Pacuare 
(Zeledon®), San Carlos (Boucard®). 
The first specimen of this remarkable bird was sent us by our collector Arcé in 1864}, 
and formed the type of the description and figure in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society’ for that year. It was shot near Tucurriqui, a hamlet in a valley on the Atlantic 
slope of the mountains of Costa Rica. Another specimen, a male, was obtained by Mr. 
H. E. Holland in the following year near Greytown in Nicaragua?. Others have since 
been obtained by Mr. Zeledon and M. Boucard ; the last-named traveller shot an adult 
female at San Carlos, which is the only female we have seen, and owing to his 
kindness is that figured on our Plate. A young male in the Museum of the University 
of Cambridge resembles the adult, but has the first (unmoulted) primary in each wing 
like that of the female. 
All the places where this bird has hitherto been found are on the Atlantic slope of 
the Costa-Rican Cordillera, where a dense tropical forest prevails. 
2. Carpodectes antonia. 
Carpodectes antonie, Ridgw. Ibis, 1884, p. 27, t.2'; Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 4107; x. p- 20°; 
Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 389 *. 
Preecedenti similis sed pure albus, capite summo, dorso et cauda plumbeo tantum tinctis : rostro flavo, culmine 
nigro. Long. tota 8°0, alee 5:6, caude 2°6, rostri a rictu 0°9, tarsi 0-9. 
Q supra plumbea, alis et cauda nigricantibus, illarum tectricibus et secundariis albo limbatis, pagina quoque 
inferiore (remigum apicibus exceptis) alba: subtus pallide grisea, ventre medio et crisso albis : rostro corneo 
ad basin albido, pedibus nigris. (Descr. maris et femine ex Pirris, Costa Rica. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Costa Rica, Pirris (Zeledon 123), 
The only specimens hitherto obtained of this second species of Carpodectes all come 
from the neighbourhood of Pirris, on the western slope of the mountains of Costa Rica. 
They were all collected by Mr. Zeledon, to whom we are indebted for a male and 
a female skin, which are now in the British Museum. Mr. Zeledon says ‘“ the bird 
cannot be called common, and it was by mere accident that I came across a tree with 
ripe fruit for which it shows much partiality, and there I stationed a man to watch and 
shoot the birds as they arrived to feed. I have not heard its song, nor has anyone 
else that I know of. ‘The call-note resembles very much that of 7ityra personata.” 
CHASMORHYNCHUS. 
Casmorhinchos, Temminck, Man. d’Orn. éd. 2, p. Ixiii (1820). 
Chasmorhynchus, Temminck, Pl. Col. livr. 9 (1823) ; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 403. 
Four species constitute the genus Chasmorhynchus, all of them remarkably distinct 
from one another. ‘The ranges of these species spread over a considerable portion of 
