200 Messrs. O. Salviu and F. DuCane Godman on a 



should bear D'Orbigny's name, of which E. crassirostris, 



Scl., is a synonym. 



Calliste cyanoptera (Sw.). 



San Jose (5000 ft.), 15th March; Atanques (4000 ft.), 

 26th February. " Eyes dark brown." 



Agree with Venezuelan examples of this species. 



Pyranga .estiva (Gm.). 



Atanques (4000 ft.), 26th February. "Eyes brown.'' 



VoLATiNiA jacarina (Linn.). 



San Jose (5000 ft.), 15th March. '' Eyes almost black.'' 



Zonotrichia pileata (Bodd.). 



Atanques (2700 ft.), 26th February. ''Eyes brown." 



OSTINOPS DECUMANUS (Pall.). 



XanthornKS decumanus, Pall. Spic. Zool. fasc. vi. p. 1, 

 pi. i. (1769). 



Oriolus cristatus, Gm. S. IS. i. p. 387 (1788). 



Ostinops cristatus, Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 127. 



San Josd (5000 ft.), 15th March; Atanques (4000 ft.), 

 26th February. " Eyes sky-blue." 



This widely ranging common species is usually known 

 under the name Ostinops cristatus (Gm.). But as Gmelin 

 himself quotes Pallas's ' Spicilegia,' wherein a recognizable 

 plate is given representing this species, we think there can be 

 no doubt whatever that Pallas's name ought to be reinstated. 

 Gmelin and some subsequent writers erroneously quote 

 Pallas's title as ^'Xanthornus maximus " — a curious mistake, 

 which seems to have originated as follows: — Pallas's article is 

 headed "Xantliomus decumanus," which is, no doubt, the 

 name he intended to introduce ; but to his technical charac- 

 ters he prefixes " Descriptio Xanthorni maximi," by which he 

 merely meant that the species he was describing was the 

 largest Xanthornus known to him. 



Icterus vulgaris (Linn.). 



Valle Dupar (700 ft.), $, 3rd March. ''Eyes brown. A 

 great favourite as a songster." 



