80 FPJXGILLID.E. 



A-. c? ad. sk. Lamalonga, Brazil, Dec. 7, Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



1830 (J. Natterer). 

 1. <5 ad. sk. Pebas, E. Peru, April 2, Sclater Coll. (Type 



1867 (J. HauxweU). of O. melas.) 



m. $ ad. sk. Pebas, Feb. 27, 1867 (J. Sclater Coll. 



Hauxwell). 

 n. <$ ad. sk. Pebas, April 2, 1807 (J. Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



HauxweU). 

 o. § ad. sk. Nauta, Peruvian Amazons, E. Bartlett [C.]. 



April 11, 1805. 



4. Oryzoborus occidentalis. 



Or yzoborus occidentalis, 8cl. P. Z. 8. 1860, p. 276 ; id. Cat. Amcr. B. 



p. 102 (1802); Shi. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1373, p. 28. 

 Goniaphea occidentalis, Gray, Hand4. B. ii. p. 104, no. 7557 (1870). 



Adult male (type of species). Entirely glossy black above and 

 below, with a tiny white speculum at the base of the primaries, 

 almost concealed by the coverts ; axillaries black ; under wing- 

 covcrts for the most part black, the lower series ashy white at the 

 base, black at the ends. Total length 53 inches, culmen - 65, 

 wing 3, tail 2*1, tarsus - 7. 



Female. Unknown. 



Hah. Colombia and Ecuador. 



a. [cJ] ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



b. J ad. sk. Babahoyo, Aug. 18-J9 Sclater Coll. (Type 



(L. Fraser). of species.) 



5. Oryzoborus nuttingi. 



? Oryzoborus otbello, Bp. Consp. i. p. 408 (1850), 

 Oryzoborus nuttingi, Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. vi. p. 401 (1884) ; 

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



Adult male. Black ; quills greyish white at the base of the inner 

 web ; under wing-coverts black ; bill stout, whitish ; feet leaden 

 black. Total length 5-5 inches, wing 2-7, tail 2-7, tarsus 0*7. (*$'. 

 4-G.) 



Adult female. Dark umber-brown above ; below cinnamon- 

 brown ; under wing-coverts fulvescent ; bill dusky blackish ; feet 

 dusky. (S. 4' &•) 



Messrs. Salvia, and Godman, who have examined the typical 

 specimens of O. nuttingi, writo as follows (and I quite agree that 

 the species will in all probability prove to be O. occidentalis): — 

 " Except that the bill is decidedly large, the male only differs from 

 that sex of O. occidentalis in the almost total absence of the white 

 wing-speculum, a little white being still visible on raising the coverts. 

 In O. occidentalis from Western Ecuador, the speculum is quite 

 small, and in an example from Colombia it is still smaller; hence 

 we doubt if O. nuttingi will prove a definite species when a larger 

 series of specimens are examined.'' 



Bab. Nicaragua. 



