Mr. P. L. Sclater on new species of Birds. 437 



already described a third and a fourth. But I have never seen the 

 Ramphoc(Bni trinitatis^ and viridis'f, and indeed they are hardly 

 likely to be recognized again from such meagre descriptions. 



The RamphoccBnus cinereiventris, of which there is only one 

 example in the Derby Museum, was procured at Pasto, in the 

 mountains of New Grenada, by the indefatigable Delattre. It is a 

 rather shorter-billed bird than the other two to which I have com- 

 pared it. Like R. rufiventris^ it has the sides of the head rufous, 

 but diifers in showing a well-marked postocular spot. It is also 

 striated on the throat like that species, but has no tinge of rufous on 

 the abdomen, which is darkish cinereous. The tail of the specimen, 

 I regret to say, is not quite perfect, but there is no appearance of the 

 white markings which are the distinguishing characteristic of the 

 Guatimalan bird. 



The Derby Museum contains examples of R. rufiventris from 

 Cohan and Panama, and also specimens of R. melanurus. The latter 

 species appears to extend from the Amazon, where Mr. Wallace 

 collected specimens in the neighbourhood of Para, to South Brazil, 

 where Prince Maximilian of Neuwied notices its occurrence under 

 the name of Troglodytes gladiatovy Beit. iii. p. 751. 



4. Cyphorinus albigularis, Sclater. 



C. intense rufo-brunneus : alis extus obsolete nigro-fasciolatis ; 

 Cauda nigra^ brunneo fasciata : capitis lateribus nigris; super- 

 ciliis posiicis et gutture toto pure albis : abdomine crissoque 

 tiigris, fasciis minutis albidis transvittatis : rostro nigro, tomiis 

 pallidis : pedibus nigris. 

 Long, tota 5-75, alse 2*7, caudse 2*1. 

 Hub. in Isthmo Panama. 



This fine large typical Cyphorinus^ distinguishable by its pure white 

 throat and dark closely-banded under plumage, is also due to the 

 researches of M. Delattre, by whom it was brought from the Isthmus 

 of Panama. The only species I can find which resembles it in some 

 degree is Cyphorinus leucostictus.Csih. Orn. Notiz. inWiegm. Archive 

 1844, p. 206 ; Schomb. Reise, iii. p. 673. sp. 37, from Mexico and 

 Guiana ; but that would appear to be a much smaller bird, and has 

 the under parts from the chin to the belly white, with the sides 

 and crissum reddish-brown. 



Among the rare types in the Derby Museum is Mr. Eyton's 

 De?idrexetastes capitoides (Cont. Orn. 1851, p. 7^). This does not 

 seem to me different from M. de Lafresnaye's Dendrocolaptes tem- 

 mincki (Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 154. pi. 4), named about 

 the same time, but I think the latter term has a slight precedence 

 in point of date, and the bird will therefore stand as Bendrexetastes 

 temmincki, if thought worthy of continuing to rank as a separate 

 genus. The Derby Museum specimen is, to judge by its make, de- 

 cidedly a Cayenne skin. The Bendrocolaptes temmincki in the Ley- 

 den Museum is said to be from Bogota. 



* Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 42. R.pileo rufo : dorso et alis brunneo-ru/is t 

 corpore infra niveo, lateribus griseis. 

 t Lesson, Traite d'Orn. p. 377. Fert-olivdire en dessus, jaune en dessom \ 



