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have a line of feathers of the same colour as in the other species. 

 The bill is stout and deep, and the culmen much curved. 



Cyclofhie 

 nigrirostris. 



Cyclorhis nigrirostris. 



Cyclaris n. Lafe. Rev. Zool. 1842, 133 (Colombia).— Ib. Mag. de Zool. 

 1843, pi. 33. — Cycloris n. Bon. Consp. 1850, 330. — Cyclorhis nig. 

 ScLATEE, P. Z. S. 1855, 151; 1858, 448.— Ib. Catal. 18G1, 46, no. 

 280 (Bogota). 



Hah. Bogota. 



(No. 279a.) Above olive green, with a short stripe from each nostril (not 

 confluent anteriorly) of dark orange brown, extending over and bejond the 



eye, for a considerably less 

 distance than anterior to 

 it. A frontal band (ex- 

 tending faintly along side 

 of vertex), lores, cheeks 

 below, and a little behind 

 the eye, chin, and most 

 of the throat- and breast 

 ashy, paler below, and 

 passing behind into soiled 

 buify gray. Sides of neck 

 and the ears, continued into a narrow, almost interrupted band across the upper 

 part of jugulum, the sides of breast, and more faintly the flanks, olive green, 

 but little paler than the back. Inner wing coverts, axillars, and inner edges 

 of quills yellow. Bill entirely blackish, except at base of lower mandible, 

 where it appears to be flesh color. Legs quite pale, though hardly flesh color. 

 The bill is lower and tbe culmen straighter than in other species, and has 

 the exclusive character of black maxilla. The first quill is less than half the 

 longest ; the 2d less than the 10th ; the 3d about equal to the 8th ; the 4th 

 and 5th longest. 



(No. 279a.) Total length, 5.50 ; wing, 3.10 ; tail, 2.65 ; exposed portion of 

 1st primary, 1.00, of 2d, 1.75, of longest (4tli and 5th) (measured from ex- 

 posed base of 1st primary), 2.30; length of bill from forehead, .75, from 

 nostril, .44, along gape, .80, depth, .30 ; tarsus, .90 ; middle toe and claw, .70, 

 claw alone, .28 ; hind toe and claw, .66, claw alone, .30. 



Gf two specimens I have had the opportunity of examining, the 

 one serving as the basis of my description has been kindly lent by 

 Dr. Sclater. The other, in the museum of the Philadelphia Academyj 



