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under that name^ it is much better to retain for the present 

 bird the appropriate designation which Mr. Salvin has applied 

 to it, 



Mr. Whitens specimens from the Argentine Eepublic (C. vi- 

 ridis, White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 595) belong to this species. 



9. Cyclorhis nigrirostris, Lafr. 



Of this very distinct Colombian species there are examples 

 in the British Museum from Bogota and Antioquia [Salmon). 



10. Cyclorhis atrirostris, sp. nov. (Plate X.) 



Supra laete viridis, superciliis latis castaneo mixtis et pileo 

 reliquo hoc colore adumbrato : subtiis cinereus ; pectore 

 et lateribus viridi tinctis : subalaribus et remigum pagina 

 interiore sulplmreo-flavis : rostro toto nigro, pedibus 

 obscure carneis. Long, tota 6, alee 3'2, caudse 2"5. 

 Hab. ^Equatoria. 



The single specimen of this bird in the British Museum, 

 formerly in the collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman, 

 was obtained by Buckley in Ecuador. It is not quite mature, 

 but appears to belong to a species closely allied to C. ni- 

 ffrirostris, and with the same form of bill, but without the 

 light colour at the base of the lower mandible. The large 

 and lengthened superciliaries also at once distinguish it from 

 C. nigrirostris, in which they only extend just to the back 

 of the eye. 



XXXIV. — Notes on a Collection of Birds from Kroonsfad, in 

 the Orange Free State. By Edmond Symonds. (Commu- 

 nicated by J. H. GuRNEY.) 



[Mr. Symonds has sent me specimens of the birds to which 

 his notes refer (except where the reverse is mentioned), and 

 I have carefully identified them. — J. H. G.] 



1. Helotarsusecaudatus (Daud.). Bufous-backed Bate- 

 leur Eagle. 



There are always two or three pairs of these Eagles on a 

 farm about six miles from Kroonstad, where there is thick 

 bush ; they are very shy and difficult to get at ; the Boers 

 say they do no harm to poultry or lambs. 



