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3. Coereba longirostris, (Cabanis). 



Arbelorhina longirostris, Cab., Mus. Hein., p. 96 (1851). 



Coereba trinitatis, Bonap., Compt. Rend., 1854, p. 258. 

 Seven specimens, all labelled " Trinidad " and " Caraccas," and strongly- 

 characterised by their long and stout bills. The females seem to have the 

 throat more clearly ochre-yellow than in those of other species, and perhaps 

 the longitudinal stripes on the under surface of the body wider and less nu- 

 merous. The Prince Bonaparte cites " Sparrm., Mus. Carls., pi. 80," as pos- 

 sibly this species ; but evidently erroneously, as that plate (Mus. Carls., pi. 

 80,) represents the very smallest of Sparrmann's proposed species. 



4. Coereea brevirostris, (Cabanis). 



Arbelorhina brevirostris, Cab., Mus. Hein., p. 96. 

 Four specimens, labelled "Bogota," " Guayaquil," and " Cayenne." That 

 from Guayaquil may be distinct, and seems to have the black gular patch 

 narrower ; the black space on the lores seems to be larger, and the light blue 

 of the forehead ends in a sharp angle at the base of the bill. 



5. Coereba nitida, Hartlaub. 



Coereba nitida, Hartl., Rev. Zool., 1847, p. 84. 



Jard. Orn. Contr., 1850, pi. 66, fig. 1. Reich. Voeg. ; fig. 3772. 



Five specimens, differing in size somewhat, but very similar in plumage. 

 One specimen, which is the original of the figure in Jardine's Contributions, 

 cited above, is labelled "Upper Amazon ;" two others are labelled "Guaya- 

 quil," and two are from Peru, presented by Hon. John Randolph Clay, late 

 U. S. Minister to that Republic. 



One specimen from Guayaquil, and the specimens from Peru, are very con- 

 siderably the largest, quite sufficiently so to be regarded as distinct, on the 

 terms which seem to prevail in this genus. The specimen figured as above 

 is the smallest, though apparently quite adult. The figure alluded to is a 

 mere caricature ; the wing too long, the tail too short, and the transverse 

 black bars awkwardly attempted to be shown on the abdomen are purely 

 imaginary, there being no such in the specimen. 



9. Entire upper parts green, rather lighter than in the female of C. coeru- 

 lea and C. longirostris. Under parts dull white, strongly tinged ,with ochre 

 yellow on the throat and breast and under tail coverts ; longitudinally striped 

 with green on the sides and abdomen. Wing brownish black, all the quills 

 widely edged with green; tail brownish-black, two middle feathers green, 

 and all the other feathers widely edged, and tipped with green. Bill dark ; 

 legs light colored. 



6. Coereba lucida, Sclater. 



Coereba lucida, Sclat., Ibis, 1859, p. 14. 

 Strictly of the same general form as the preceding, but singularly different 

 in color, and in all respects as described by Dr. Sclater, as above cited. 

 Specimens in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution from Panama. 



2. Genus CHLOROPHANES, Reichenbach, Handb. Spec. Orn. pt. v. 

 p. 233, (1853.) 



1. Chlorophanes spiza, (Linnaeus.) 



Motacilla Spiza, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 188, (1758.) 



Coereba atricapilla, Vieill., Nouv. Diet. xiv. p. 50,(1817.) 



Turdus micans, Hahn, Voegel aus Asien, &c, pt. iii. (1819.) 



Nectarinia mitrata, Licht. Verz. p. 15, (1823.) 



" Coereba melanocephala, Vieill." DeWeid, Beitr. Naturg. Bras. iii. p. 



771, (1831.) 

 Chlorophanes guatemalensis, Sclat. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1861, p. 129. 

 Edwards' Birds i., pi. 25, pi. 348. Hahn's Voegel, pt. iii. pi. 1. Buff. PI. 



1864.] 



