FEBRUARY I5, 1901 VoL. II, pp. 53-54 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW BECARD FROM LOWER 
URUGUAY. 
BY WILLIAM BREWSTER AND OUTRAM BANGS. 
FRom various sources the Museum of Comparative Zoology 
has gradually accumulated a very fair collection of Middle and 
South American birds; many of these never have been identified, 
while others have been left with queries following the names 
written on the labels. Together, we have assumed the pleasant 
task of properly determining these specimens, and of publishing 
short descriptions of those which appear to us to be new. 
In a list of the birds which he took or observed in Lower 
Uruguay’ Walter B. Barrows recorded three specimens of a 
Pachyrhamphus, the species of which he could not determine. 
Two of these skins are in the collection of the Museum — nos. 
31,130 and 31,131. On the labels, in Dr. J. A. Allen’s handwrit- 
ing, is “Pachyrhamphus sp. n., near polychropterus, but distinct.” 
Dr. Allen, however, never described the species, which proves, on 
comparison, quite distinct from, though nearest to, P. polychrop- 
terus, and may be known as 
Pachyrhamphus notius’ Brewster and Bangs, sp. nov. 
Type, from Concepcion del Uruguay, @ adult, no. 31,130, coll. of Museum 
of Comparative Zodlogy, collected Nov. 27, 1880, by Walter B. Barrows. 
1 Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, Vol. VIII, p. 203, 1883. 
2 Notius — southern. 
