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specimens of birds from a collection lately received from Bogota, 

 which did not appear to them to be included in my list, published 

 in this Society's 'Proceedings' for 1855. I have also myself no- 

 ticed a few others, which I had not previously remarked in collec- 

 tions from that locality. From these sources I am enabled to lay 

 before the Society a list of twenty-two species, which, added to those 

 given in my former catalogue, raise the total number of birds now 

 ascertained as belonging to this peculiar fauna to 457. 



1 . Nyctale harrisi, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. (1849) iv. p. 157, 

 et Journ. Ac. Sc. Phil. N. S. ii. p. 53, pi. 5. Ciccaba gisella, Bp. 

 Consp. p. 44. Gisella harrisi, Bp. Compt. Rend. 1855, Oct. 22nd, 

 * Nyctalitinus albipunctatus, Kaup,' Gray, Cat. of Gen. of B., App. 

 p. 135. 



Dr. Hartlaub writes me word that the Bremen Museum has a 

 Bogota specimen of this peculiar Owl, and the example in the Norwich 

 Museum named by Dr. Kaup Nyctalitinus albipunctatus was received, 

 I believe, from the same locality. 



2. Synallaxis elegans, sp. nov. 



S. pallide mm'ino-brunnea, infra medialiter albescentior^ ventre medio 

 Candida, crisso et lateribus dorso concoloribus : pileo toto, nisi 

 fronte, alis extus et cauda rufis : loris albescentibus. 



Long, tota 6*4, alse 2-2, caudse 3-7. 



This Synallaxis is very like a common Brazilian species, S. rujicapilla, 

 Vieill., which it resembles in having the head, wings and tail bright 

 rufous. But in the present bird the rufous colour does not extend 

 over the front, which is brown like the back, there are no yellowish 

 supercilia, or at least the very faintest traces of them, and the under 

 plumage is not cinereous, but brown like the upper, only paler, and 

 medially passing into white, which colour is quite pure in the middle 

 of the belly. The tail is longer, and the webs of the rectrices are 

 not so broad as in the Brazilian bird. 



This species, like other true Synallaxes, has only eight large 

 rectrices and an outer pair abnormally small. Other birds, often 

 placed in this genus, have twelve, which is the number given by 

 Vieillot in his generic characters, but I consider this erroneous, and 

 believe the former number to be the normal one. 



The present bird seems not uncommon in Bogota collections, but 

 lias probably been hitherto confounded with its several allied species. 



3. Synallaxis mcesta, sp. nov. 



/Sf. olivascenti-hrunnea, subtiis paulo dilutior : alis intus nigris, extus 

 castaneis : cauda rufa : loris et gutture albidioribus : tectricibus 

 suhalaribus pallide fulvis ; rostro valido, nigro ; mandibula in- 

 feriore bast albescente : pedibus pallidis. 

 Long, tota 5*2, alee 2*5, caudse 2*5. 



The single specimen which I possess of this bird was received from 

 MM. Verreaux. It is of a nearly uniform olive-brown, rather lighter 

 below, particularly on the throat and sides of the head. The chestnut 

 inargin of the quills grows narrower towards their apices, leaving the 



