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February 26, 1856. 



Dr. Gray, F.R.S., in the Chair. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On some additional Species of Birds received in 



collections from bogota. 



By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., F.Z.S. 



(Avės, PI. CXVI.— CXIX.) 

 MM. Verreaux of Paris, knovdng the interest I take in New 

 Grenadian ornithology, have most kindly transmitted to me some 

 specimens of birds from a coUection lately received from Bogota, 

 which did not appear to them to be included in my list, pubhshed in 

 in this Society's ' Proceedings' for lašt year. I have also myself 

 noticed a few others, which I.had not previously remarked in coUec- 

 tions from that locality. From these sources I am enabled to lay 

 before the Society a list of twenty-two species, which, added to those 

 given in my former catalogue, raiše the totai number of birds now 

 ascertained as belonging to this peculiar fauna to 457. 



1 . Nyctale harrisi, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. (1849) iv. p. 157, 

 et Journ. Ac. Sc. Phil. N. S. ii. p. 53, pi. 5. Ciccaba gisella, Bp. 

 Consp. p. 44. Gisella harrisi, Bp. Compt. Rend. 1855, Oct. 22nd. 

 ' Nyctalitinus albipunctatus, Kaup,' Gray, Cat. of Gen. of B., App. 

 p. 135. 



Dr. Hartlaub writes me word that the Bremen Museura has a 

 Bogota specimen of this pecuUar Owl, and the example in the Norwich 

 Museum named by Dr. Kaup Nyctalitinus albipunctatus was received, 

 I beHeve, from the šame locality. 



2. Synallaxis elegans, sp. nov. 



S. pallide murino-brunnea, infra medialiter albescentior, ventre medio 

 candido, crisso et [atsribus dorso concoloribus : pileo toto, nisi 

 fronte, alis extus et cauda rufis : loris albescentibus. 



Long. totą 6 '4, alse 2 '2, caudse 3 •7. 



This Synallaxis isverylike a commonBrazilian species, S. ruficapilla, 

 Vieill., which it resembles in having the head, wings and tail bright 

 rufous. But in the present bird the rufous colour does not extend 

 over the front, which is brown likę the back, there are no yellowish 

 superciUa, or at least the very faintest traces of them, and the under 

 plumage is not cinereous, but brown likę the upper, only paler, and 

 medially passing into white, which colour is quite pure in the middle 

 of the belly. The tail is longer, and the webs of the rectrices are 

 not so broad as in the Brazilian bird. 



This species, likę other true Synallaxes, has only eight large 

 rectrices and an outer pair abnormally small. Other birds, often 

 placed in this genus, have twelve, which is the number given by 



