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pho7'us from Veragua, two specimens of which, through M. 

 Boucard's kindness, we have been able to add to our collec- 

 tion. They were received by him direct from Veragua a few 

 weeks ago. I propose to call the bird, from its grey chest, 



Odontophorus spodiostethus, sp. n. 

 Pileo rufescenti-brunnco, cello postico et dorso antico eodem 

 colore, plumis singulis medialiter cinerascentibus ; dorso 

 postico, cum tectricibus supracaudalibus, nigro, fulvo 

 et cinereo minutissime irroratis ; primariis f usco-nigris, 

 secundariis fulvo irregulariter transfasciatis et vermicu- 

 latis ; alarum tectricibus maculis maguis nigris notatis et 

 fulvescenti-albo vermiculatis ; fronte et capitis lateribus 

 cum mento Isete rufis, tectricibus auricularibus fusco- 

 brunneis ; pectore toto cinereo ; ventre medio cervino ; 

 hypochondriis fuscis obscure fulvo vermiculatis ; ventre 

 imo et crisso nigro irregulariter transfasciatis ; rostro 

 nigro ; pedibus corylinis : long, tota cir. 7 5, alae 4"2, 

 caudae 17, tarsi 1'3, rostri a rictu '7. 

 Hab. Veragua. 

 Mus. nostr. 



This species has no near relative that I am acquainted with, 

 but agrees in dimensions with the bird recently described by 

 me (Ibis, 1876, p. 379) as Odontophorus cinctus, which Mr. 

 Rowley has figured in his ' Ornithological Miscellany ' (iii. 

 p. 39, pi. Ixxxvi.). In coloration, however, it differs widely, 

 the forehead and sides of the head being bright rufous, the 

 chest cinereous, instead of rufous, and the belly buff, instead 

 of white. Moreover the well-defined black crescentic marks 

 of the flanks in 0. cinctus are absent in this species. The 

 second specimen of O. spodiostethus is evidently in immature 

 plumage. It has, however, all the characteristics of the adult, 

 the colouring of the sides of the head being less clearly 

 defined. 



Some few years ago Mr. Godman and I obtained from Mr. 

 Gould by exchange a Pigeon, which I took at the time to be a 

 specimen of the little-kuown species Osculatia sapphirina, Bp., 

 the type of which graces the gallery of the Paris Museum. 

 This original specimen, according to Prince Bonaparte, who 

 described it (Consp. ii. p. 73, and Compt. Rend. xl. p. 101), 



