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de Belgique* for February last. A male bird from the same quarter 

 has been kindly entrusted to me for examination before being depo- 

 sited in the British Museum, where the female I originally named is 

 also to be found. I cannot agree with the Vicomte DuBus in con- 

 sidering this species a Lanio, but, after seeing the male, am the more 

 convinced that it is a true Tachyphonus. 



3. Tanagra notabilis, Jardine. 



T. Jlavo-olivacea : capite undique et mento nigrist tnacula nuchali 

 triangularly a dorso linea nigra divisa, Jlava : alls nigris cce- 

 ruleo marginatis, tectricibus autem summis dorso concolorihus : 

 Cauda nigra, margine vix ccerulescente : subtus Icete aurantio- 

 fiava ; rostro pedibusque nigris. 



Long, tota 7*2, alse 3*7, caudse 3*0. 



Hab. in rep. Equatoriana. 



Sir William Jardine has been so good as to lend me the types of 

 this and the following species of Tanagers for examination. They 

 were lately procured by Professor Jameson of Quito, during a botani- 

 cal excursion along the eastern range of Cordilleras to the north of 

 Quito, and are to be described with other rare birds, the product of 

 the same or similar expeditions, in the forthcoming number of the 

 new series of the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. 



The present bird is a most brilliant fourth of the little section 

 denominated Compsocoma by Cabanis, easily distinguished from the 

 others by its yellow-olive back, triangular nape-spot, black chin and 

 orange-yellow under-plumage, and may be therefore called Compso- 

 coma notabilis, if that name is used generically. The other three 

 species of this group are — (1) Compsocoma victorini, with its dark 

 olive back and elongated nape-stripe, which is common in collections 

 from Bogota ; (2) C. smnptuosa (Arch, du Musee Paris., vii. p. 3/9. 

 pi. 23), with the back black and uropygium olivascent, from Trans- 

 andean Ecuador — the same locality as the present — and Peru ; and 

 (3) C. flavinucha, a rare species in collections, which seems confined 

 to Bolivia, where d'Orbigny discovered it on the eastern slope of the 

 Andes of the province of La Paz. 



4. Saltator arremonops, Jardine. 



5. rufo-brunneusy olivaceo parum tinctus, pectore multo clariore 

 et rubescentiore : capite toto mentoque nigris ; vitta mediali 

 verticis et superciliari utrinque postice elongatis cum medio 

 ventre cinereis : alis intus et cauda nigricantibus : rostro et 

 pedibus nigris. 



Long, tota 7'25, alse 3-2, caudse 3-5. 



Hab. in rep. Equatoriana. 



This peculiar Tanager in style of plumage and general habit cor- 



* The article is entitled " Note sur quelques especes inedites d'Oiseaux." The 

 Nemosia torquata therein described (sp. 10) is my Dacnis pulcherrima, Rev. et 

 Mag. de Zool. 1853, p. 480 — (a true Dacnis to my mind) ; and, is not Vireosylvia 

 frenata, DuBus, sp. 1, the same as V. altiloqua, Vieill. — Cassin, Birds of Cal. pi. 37. 

 p. 221— and Phyllomanes mystacalh, Cab. Wiegm. Arch. 1844, p. 348 ? 



