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quills blackish below, white along the inner web: "bill greyish 

 brown, the lower mandible paler ; feet dark brownish flesh-colour; 

 iris greyish brown " (Naiwicd). Total length 5*8 inches, bill from 

 0*6, culmen 07, wing 2 - 95, tail 2 - 55, tarsus 0-75. 

 Hah. Southern Brazil. 



a. £ ad. sk. 



b. <$ ad. sk. 



c. $ ad. sk. 



3. Oryzoborus crassirostris. 



Thick-billed Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 148 (1783). 

 Loxia crassirostris, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 862 (1788, ex Lath.). 

 Spermopliila crassirostris, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 385 (1844). 

 Coccoborus ater, Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Oman. iii. p. G78 (1848). 

 Sporophila crassirostris, Bp. Consp. i. p. 499 (1850). 

 Oryzoborus crassirostris, Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 102 (1802) ; Sol. $■ 



Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 181, 1867, p. 750; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 223 



(1871) ; Scl. S>- Sah: Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 28 (1873) ; Salv. Cat. 



Sbrickl. Coll. p. 220 (1882) ; id. Ibis, 1885, p. 214; Salv. fy Godm. 



Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 348 (1885). 

 Oryzoborus melas, Scl. # Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 979, 1869, p. 253, 



i873, p. 264; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 264 (1873). 

 Goniaphea crassirostris, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 104, no. 7553 (1870). 

 Goniaphea melas, Gray, t. c. p. 104, no. 7558 (1870). 

 Oryzoborus occidentals (nee Scl.), Scl. S[ Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 506. 



Adult male. Entirely glossy black, the quills somewhat browner 

 at the tips, with a large alar speculum, - 25 inch long, at the base 

 of the primaries ; under wing-coyerts white ; the edge of the wing 

 black, and a spot of dusky black on the lower greater coverts at the 

 base of the primaries ; axillaries white, a few nearest the body black 

 like the breast. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-65, bill from gape 

 0-6, wing 2-85, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Umber-brown with an olive shade; under surface 

 of body deep ochreous, rather paler on the throat ; the sides of the 

 breast more ashy olive; under wing-coverts buffy white, with a 

 strong tinge of yellow along the edge of the wing. Total length 

 5 - 3 inches, culmen 0*6, wing 2"6, tail 2'1, tarsus 0*7. 



Hah. Amazonia, Guiana, Venezuela, and Colombia. 



a. cS ad. sk. Georgetown, British G uiana Sclater Coll. 



(Brown). 



b. J ad. sk. Bartica Grove, British Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Guiana, April 28, 1880 

 (//. Whitely). 



c. 2 ad. sk. Bartica Grove, June 5, 1880 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. Wiitely). 



d. e. c? ? ad. sk. Trinidad. Sclater Coll. 

 /. cS ad. sk. S. Esteban, Venezuela (A Sclater Coll. 



Goeriny). 

 g,h. S 9- ftd. sk. Medellin, U. S. Colombia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(T. K. Salmon). 

 i. cJ ad. sk. Bogota. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



