Among the Birds were two specimens of the Phytotoma Bloxhami, 

 Child., which having been submitted to Mr. Children, that gentle- 

 man reported that one of the specimens was apparently a female 

 or a young male of the species. It differed from the adult male in 

 being devoid of the ferruginous colour on the crown ; and in the 

 total absence of the same colour on the breast and abdomen, which 

 were of a dirty yellowish white streaked with fuscous. The co- 

 lours of the upper part of the body were also less deep than in the 

 adult male. Mr. Children stated that the male specimen accorded 

 accurately with that which he originally described in Jardine and 

 Selby's ' Illustrations of Ornithology.' He added, that more re- 

 cently, in 1830, both sexes of the bird had been described and 

 figured in the ' Memoires presentes a l'Academie Impe>iale des 

 Sciences de St. Petersbourg,' by M. Kittlitz, who, not being aware 

 that it had been previously published, had given to it the name of 

 Phyt. silens. As M. Kittlitz's description was subsequent to that 

 of Mr. Children, so also was his discovery to that of Mr. Bloxham, 

 whose name is commemorated by Mr. Children in that of the bird, 

 which was shot by him at Valparaiso certainly not later than De- 

 cember 1825, while M. Kittlitz did not observe the species in 

 Chili until March or April 1827. Mr. Children added, that the 

 " two serrated tomice or ridges" in the margin of the upper mandible, 

 mentioned by him in his description of Phyt. Bloxhami, are very 

 distinct in both the specimens submitted to his inspection. 



The following species from the same locality were apparently 

 new to science, and were characterized by Mr. Vigors as follows: 

 Capito aurifrons. Cap. occipite, genis, collo superiori, nuchd, 

 dorsoque atris albido-Jlavo striatis ; abdomine albido-Jlavo, atro- 

 Jusco striato ; jugulo tectricibusque alarum aurantiacis, illius 

 plumis subgraciliter, hujus latius in medio nigro striatis ; Jronte 

 verticeque aureis, hoc subfuscescenti ; remigibus rectricibusque 

 Juscis. 

 Longitudo 7-f- unc. 

 Xanthornus chrysocarpus. Mas. Xanth. ater, plumis obscure 



Jerrugineo marginatis ; regione carpali-aureo-Jlavd. 

 Fcem. colore superno minus saturato, dor so imo subcinerascenti ; 

 corpore infra albo maculatim notato ; strigd utrinque a rictu per 

 oculos ad nucham extendente lata, alterdque in medio verticis 

 gracili albis ; regione carpali Jlavescenti. 

 Longitudo maris 8 unc. fcem. 74- 



Aglaia Chilensis. Agl. sericeo-aier ; capite genisque Jlavo- 

 viridibus, colore genarum in latera colli angulariter extendente ; 

 pectore abdomineque beryllinis ; dorso medio imoque Jlammeo- 

 coccineis. 

 Statura Tanagrce Tatao, Linn. 



This bird differs from the well known Paradise Tanager only in 

 the uniform flame-colour of the middle and lower parts of the back, 

 and in the light green feathers of the cheeks extending more angu- 

 larly into the black on each side than in the common species. The 



