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cent (which was at that time living in tlie Gardens of the 

 Zoological Society of London) having then recently acquired, 

 with some slight exceptions which I particularized, its full 

 adult plumage. 



This specimen, which has also been referred to by Mr. 

 Lawrence in his " Catalogue of the Birds of St. Vincent,^' 

 at p. 195 of the ' Proceedings of the LTnited-States National 

 Museum ' for 1878, died on 8th of December, 1878 ; and its 

 skin is now preserved in the Norwich Museum. 



It proved a male on dissection, and at the time of its death 

 had lost all remains of immature plumage, except a little 

 edging of brown on some feathers of the nape, its adult dress 

 agreeing with that of continental examples. 



As Mr. Lawrence speaks of a St.-Vincent specimen which 

 he examined, and which was also a male, as " rather larger, 

 and apparently stouter, with a shorter Aving than a specimen 

 from Mexico, which is a female,^^ I think it may be desirable 

 to record the comparative length of the wings and tarsi of the 

 birds of this species, which are now preserved in the Norwich 

 Museum : — 



Wing from 

 New Granada, marked c? l>y Verreaux .... 



Guatemala, marked c? by Verreaux 



„ presumed S 



„ marked c? by the collector, Mr. 



Skinner, but probably erroneously .... 



St, Vincent, cJ by dissection 



Venezuela, marked 5 by Verreaux 



Northern Mexico, presumed 2 



The gene^'ic Name Phainopepla. — I notice that in 'Coues's 

 'Key,^Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's 'North- American Birds,' 

 and in other American works lately issued, the generic terra 

 " Phainopepla," which I proposed in 1858 for the Ptilogonys 

 nitens of Swainson, is altered into " Phcenopepla." I wish to 



