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Mniotiltid^. 



Arce obtained specimens of Dendroeca vieiUoti at Tempate, on 

 the Pacific coast. Setophaga aurantiaca, Baird, is exceedingly 

 like S. verticalis, D'Orb. & Lafr. I cannot distinguish them 

 with certainty. S. flammea, Cab. (J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 85), 

 refers to the same species, and is not the true flammea of Gua- 

 temala: I have seen the Berlin specimen. Basileuterus mela- 

 notis, Lawr., described in the paper I am noticing, I do not 

 know; it is said to differ from all the allied species in the 

 decided black colouring behind the eye, in the superocular 

 stripe being of a clear ash-colour, without any tinge of yellow or 

 greenish, and in its paler lower plumage. 



HiRUNDINIDjE. 



I cannot distinguish between Stelgidopteryx fulvigula, Bairtl, 

 of which we have a marked specimen received from the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, and our Guatemalan examples of S.fulvi- 

 pennis, Scl. 



VlREONlD^. 



The species obtained by Arce at Tucurriqui and referred by 

 me to Hylophilus decurtatus (or H. cinei'eiceps) must certainly 

 be the same as Mr. Lawrence's H. pusillus, whichever name be 

 adopted for the Costa-Rican bird. 



The same remark applies to Cyclorhis flaviventris from the 

 Gulf of Nicoya, and C. subfiavescens. There is but one Cyclo- 

 rhis in Costa Rica, which must be called C. subfiavescens, Cab. 



TANAGRIDiE. 



Phoenicothraupis carmioli, described in this paper, appears to 

 be a very distinct species. We have a single specimen, also 

 obtained by Carmiol. As Mr. Lawrence remarks, even if all the 

 three known specimens were females, they cannot be associated 

 with any known species. 



FrINGILLIDjE. 



Amaurospiza conculur, Cab., has not been obtained by any of 



