426 Messrs, P. L. Sclater and 0. Salvin on some 



We have hitherto referred this form to B. latinuchus 

 (Dubus) . But on looking carefully to Dubus^s description, 

 it would seem more probable that the bird which he described 

 under that name is the Peruvian form which Salvin has 

 designated in his MS. B. specularis, and which is spoken of 

 by Taczanowski (P. Z. S. 1879^ p. 228) tinder that name. 

 The latter bird (Plate X. fig. 1) has a well-defined white spe- 

 culum, as described by Dubus, whereas in the present species 

 the white at the base of the primaries is quite concealed by 

 the greater wing-coverts. 



Our figure of B. latinuchus is taken from a skin in the col- 

 lection of Salvin and Godman, procured by Buckley at Sical, 

 in Ecuador. Sclater^s collection contains an example of the 

 same species obtained by Stoltzmann and Jelski at Tambillo, 

 in Northern Peru. 



3. BUARREMON COMPTUS, Sp. UOV, 



Cineraceus ; pileo pallide castaneo, macula frontali distincta 

 flava; lateribus capitis, alis et cauda uigris; alis extus 

 cinereo limbatis ; subtiis flavus ; subalaribus albis, cam- 

 pterio flavicante ; rostro nigro ; pedibus corylinis : long, 

 tota 7'0, alee 3'3, caudse 3*3. 



Hab. in rep. iEquatoriana : Mara^dila {Buckley). 



Mus. S.-G. 



Obs. Species a Buarremone spodionoto pilei colore dilutiore 

 et postice circumscripto, necnon macula frontis flava dis- 

 tinguenda. 



This species is immediately distinguishable from B. spodi- 

 onotus by its well-marked frontal spot, which occurs also in 

 B. rufinuchus of Bolivia, and to a lesser degree in B. elceoprorus 

 of Antioquia. In one skin of B. spodionotus from Sical, in 

 Ecuador {Buckley, Mus. S.-G.), there is a faint trace of a 

 similar marking ; but in four other skins of B. spodionotus 

 the lores are entirely black. B. comptus seems also to be 

 rather a larger bird, and of a more brilliant yellow below. 

 The white alar spot in this species is barely discernible unless 

 the wing-coverts are raised. 



The three species now described, together with B. rufinuchus 

 (d'Orb. et Lafr.), B. latinuchus, Dubus, B. melanops, Scl. et 



