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of B. schistaceus. Sir William Jardine has named it leucopterusy 

 from the conspicuous white spot on the wing. The area of the 

 genus Buarremon appears to extend along the Andean range from 

 Bolivia into Southern Mexico, the vicinity of Bogota being perhaps 

 the principal sedes ox focus^ where no less than seven or eight species 

 occur. The present bird may be characterized as follows : — 



Buarremon leucopterus. 



B. schistacescenti-niger, alls caudaque obscurioribus ; pileo ochra- 

 ceo-rufo ; macula utrinque anteoculari et speculo atari con- 

 spicuo cum toto corpore subtus albis ; lateribus in cinereum tra~ 

 hentibus ; capitis lateribus nigris ; tectricibus alarum inferi- 

 oribus albis ; rostra pedibusque nigris. 



Long, tota 6'2 ; alse 2*8 ; caudse 2* 7- 



Hab. in rep. Equatoriana (^Jameson). — Proc. Zool. Soc. Nov. 27, 

 1855. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR AUG. 1856. 



Chiswick. — August 1, 2. Slight haze : very hot. 3. Hot and sultry. 4. Over- 

 cast : very hot. 5. Cloudless and hot. 6. Cloudy : slight haze : very fine. 7. 

 Clear : hot and sultry. 8. Cloudy : overcast : very fine : rain. 9. Slight rain. 



10. Cloudy and fine. 11. Very fine : cloudy : rain. 12. Cloudy: very fine. 13. 

 Very hot : heavy rain at night. 14. Cloudy and fine : rain. 15. Cloudy and fine. 

 16. Very fine : thunder, lightning and rain at night. 17. Slight rain at half-past 

 eight A.M. : excessively heavy rain commenced, nearly an inch fell in one hour : 

 cloudy at night. 18. Cloudy. 19. Overcast : rain. 20. Foggy : overcast : heavy 

 rain at night. 21. Densely clouded : boisterous, with heavy clouds and showers. 

 22. Partially overcast : cloudy : very fine. 23. Fine. 24. Cloudy and fine. 25. 

 Slight showers. 26. Very fine. 27. Uniformly overcast : very fine. 28. Cloudy 

 and fine: rain. 29. Very fine. 30. Slight fog: very fine. 31. Very fine : rain 

 at night. 



Mean temperature of the month 63''*40 



Mean temperature of Aug. 1855 00*00 



Mean temperature of Aug. for the last thirty years 61 *97 



Average amount of rain in Aug 2*413 inches. 



Boston. — Aug. 1 — 3. Fine. 4. Cloudy. 5, 6. Fine. 7. Fine : thunder, light- 

 ning and rain a.m. and p.m. 8. Fine. 9. Cloudy : rain a.m. and p.m. 10. Cloudy. 



11, 12. Fine. 13. Cloudy. 14. Cloudy : rain a.m. 15, 16. Fine. 17. Rain 

 a.m. and P.M. 18, Cloudy : rain a.m. and p.m. 19. Cloudy. 20. Cloudy: rain 

 A.M. and P.M. 21. Rain a.m. and p.m. 22. Cloudy : rain a.m. 23. Cloudy. 

 24. Rain. 25. Cloudy. 26. Cloudy : rain p.m. 27. Cloudy : rain a.m. 28. 

 Cloudy : rain a.m. and p.m. 29 — 31. Cloudy. 



Sandwick Manse, Orkney. — Aug. 1. Drizzle a.m. : fog p.m. 2. Clear, fine a.m. : 

 clear p.m. 3. Bright a.m. : cloudy p.m. 4. Bright a.m. : clear, fine, aurora p.m. 

 5, 6. Bright a.m. : clear, fine p.m. 7. Bright a.m. : cloudy, fine p.m. 8. Cloudy 

 A.M. and P.M. 9. Cloudy a.m. : cloudy, fine p.m. 10. Bright a.m. : cloudy p.m. 

 11. Drops a.m. : drizzle p.m. 12. Bright a.m. : thunder-showers p.m. 13. Clear 

 a.m. : bright p.m. 14. Bright a.m. : vapour, fine p.m. 15. Damp a.m. : drizzle p.m. 

 16. Damp a.m. : clear p.m. 17 — 22. Cloudy a.m. and p.m. 23. Cloudy a.m. : 

 cloudy, drops p.m. 24. Bright a.m.: cloudy p.m. 25. Rain a.m. : showers p.m. 

 26. Showers a.m. : drizzle, showers p.m. 27. Cloudy a.m. and p.m. 28. Rain 

 A.M. : drops p.m. 29. Showers a.m. : drops p.m. 30. Clear a.m. : cloudy p.m. 

 31. Rain a.m. : clear, aurora p.m. 



Mean temperature of Aug. for previous twenty-nine years ... 55^-03 



Mean temperature of this month 53 '22 



Mean temperature of Aug. 1855 56*10 



Average quantity of rain in Aug. for previous sixteen years ... 3*01 inches. 



