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white, and a few indistinctly barred with freckles of the same on 

 their outer webs ; tail brown, crossed by narrow freckled bands of 

 whitish and darker brown ; across the breast a band of greyish red 

 blotched with a darker tint; breast rufous, each feather with six 

 spots of light buff encircled with dark brown, the spots gradually 

 increasing in size on the flanks and lower part of the abdomen, and 

 the rufous tint changing into blackish brown ; vent buff ; under tail- 

 coverts like the abdomen, but the markings less distinct ; bill black ; 

 feet black. 



Total length, 8 inches; bill, J ; wing, 3| ; tail, 2f ; tarsi, IJ. 



Hab. Santa F^ de Bogota. 



Nearly allied to 0. Sonnini. 



For an additional example of that division of the Ortygidce to 

 which the subgeneric term of Odontophorus has been given, Mr. 

 Gould proposed, from the marbled appearance of its markings, the 

 specific term of marmoratus, with the following characters : — 



Ortyx (Odontophorus; marmoratus. Ort. spatio circumoculari 

 nudo, coccineo ; plumis auricularibus rufo-castaneis ; crista elon- 

 gatd, laxd, fused, plumis singulis flavescenti-fusco per medium 

 irroratis; nucM nigrescenti-fuscd, lineis irroratis cinereis angustis, 

 transversim fasciatd ; primorum pogoniis externis arenaceo-fulvo 

 guttatis ; corpore inferiore fusco, lineis irregularibus et crebris 

 nigrescentibus cinereis, et arenaceo-fulvis transverslm/asciato. 

 Naked orbits, scarlet ; ear- coverts reddish chestnut ; crest length- 

 ened, curved and flowing, dark brown, freckled down the middle of 

 each feather with yellowish brown ; back of the neck blackish brown, 

 crossed by numerous narrow freckled bands of grey ; lower part of 

 the back yellowish brown, freckled with a darker and a lighter tint ; 

 wings dark brown, the coverts and inner webs of the secondaries 

 crossed by numerous broad irregular freckled bands of sandy buff; 

 primaries spotted along their outer webs with light sandy buff^; a few 

 of the scapularies with a stripe of white freckled with black down 

 the centre ; under surface brown, crossed by numerous irregular 

 narrow bands of blackish brown, grey, and sandy bulF; bill and feet 

 black. 



Total length, 9 inches ; bill, f ; wing, 5f ; tail, 2 ; tarsi, 1 j. 

 Hab. Santa Fe de Bogota. 

 Nearly allied to Odon. Guianensis, 



And for an Albatros nearly allied to, but larger than, Diomedea 

 chlororhyncha, and which also difl^ers from that species in the colour- 

 ing of the culmen, he proposed to designate 



Diomedea culminata. Diom. spatio circumoculari nigrescenti- 



cinereo, gradatim pallescente ; facie albd ; vertice corpore subtiis et 



uropygio albis ; dorso, alis et caudd cinerescenti-fuscis ; culmine 



olivaceo-flavo. 



Space surrounding the eye blackish grey, gradually passing into 



the white of the face ; crown of the head, all the under surface and 



rump white; back of the neck sooty-grey; back, wings and tail 



dark greyish brown, the latter with white shafts; culmen for its 



