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Chlorospingus hypophaeus Scl. and Salv. 



Five specimens, both sexes, Caribbean slope of Volcan de 

 Chiriqui, June. 



Chlorospingus pileatus Salv. 



Twenty-two specimens, adults of both sexes and young, Boquete 

 and Volcan de Chiriqui, 5000 to 11,000 feet, March, April, May 

 and June. 



The young have the lower mandible yellow. 



Chlorospingus novicius ! sp. nov. 



Twenty-three specimens, both sexes, Boquete, Volcan de Chiri- 

 qui and Caribbean slope of Volcan de Chiriqui, 4000 to 7500 

 feet, February, March, April and June. 



Type, from Volcan de Chiriqui, 7500 feet altitude, $ adult, no. 8740, 

 coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs, collected Feb. 5, 1901, by W. W. Brown, Jr. 



Characters. — A very different bird from C. albitempora (Lafr.) of Bolivia, 

 with which it usually has been confused. At once distinguished by its very 

 much stouter, differently shaped, bill. It is also a larger bird than C. albitem- 

 pora; has a more spotted throat; darker green back; sides of throat darker; 

 and the pale color of throat does not extend onto malar region (as it does in 

 C. albitempora). A perhaps rather nearer ally of the new species is C. punctu- 

 latus Scl. and Salv. of Cordillera del Chucu, Panama. That bird, however, 

 has a black head and more spotted throat, and more white over the eye. 



Color. — Head, including suborbital region, dusky greenish brown ; rather 

 grayer on sides of neck ; a white patch behind eye, extending above the eye to 

 about the middle line ; and usually a few white feathers below eye ; rest of 

 upper parts, including edges of wings and tail, olive green ; throat soiled 

 white, — inclining to fawn color or wood brown on malar region, — speckled 

 with dusky ; jugulum greenish ochre, shading into olive yellow on breast ; sides 

 and under tail coverts, olive yellow, rather greener — less yellowish — than 

 breast ; middle of belly white ; bend of wing yellow ; lining of wing yellowish 

 white ; inner margins of wing feathers, — primaries, secondaries and tertials, — 

 whitish ; under side of tail dusky olive. 



Novicius — new. 



