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have a line of feathers of the same colour as in the other species. 
The bill is stout and deep, and the culmen much curved. 
smith-|Coltee- Sex When 
sonian| tor’s | and Locality. Collected Received from Collected by 
No. | No. | Age. E 
| 278a | .. Babahoyo, Ecuad. ste Cab. P. L. Sclater. Fraser. 
278a.) Type. 
Cyclorhis nigrirostris. 
Cyclaris n. Uarr. Rey. Zool. 1842, 133 (Colombia).—Is. Mag. de Zool. 
1843, pl. 33.—Cycloris n. Bon. Consp. 1850, 330.—Cyclorhis nig. 
Scnuater, P. Z. S. 1855, 151; 1858, 448.—Is. Catal. 1861, 46, no. 
280 (Bogota). 
Hab. Bogota. 
(No. 279a.) Above olive green, with a short stripe from each nostril (not 
confluent anteriorly) of dark orange brown, peatae ines over and beyond the 
eye, for a considerably less 
distance than anterior to 
it. A frontal band (ex- 
tending faintly along side 
of vertex), lores, cheeks 
below, and a little behind 
the eye, chin, and most 
of the throat and breast 
Cyclorhis ashy, paler below, and 
nigrivosiris.  yassing behind into soiled 
buffy gray. Sides of neck 
and the ears, continued into a narrow, almost interrupted band across the upper 
part of jugulum, the sides of breast, and more faintly the flanks, olive green, 
but little paler than the back. Inner wing coverts, axillars, and inner edges 
of quills’ yellow. Bill entirely blackish, except at base of lower mandible, 
where it appears to be flesh color. Legs quite pale, though hardly flesh color. 
The bill is lower and the culmen straighter than in other species, and has 
the exclusive character of black maxilla. The first quill is less than half the 
longest; the 2d less than the 10th; the 2d about equal to the 8th; the 4th 
and 5th longest. 
(No. 279a.) Total length, 5.50; wing, 3.10; tail, 2.65; exposed portion of 
1st primary, 1.00, of 2d, 1.75, af beige (4th and 5th) (measured from ex- 
, posed base of 1st primary), 2.30; length of bill from forehead, .75, from 
“nostril, .44, along gape, .80, ee "30; tarsus, .90; middle toe and claw, “70, 
claw alone, .28; hind toe and claw, .66, claw alone, .30. 
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Of two specimens I have had the opportunity of examining, the 
one serving as the basis of my description has been kindly lent by 
Dr. Sclater. The other, in the museum of the Philadelphia Academy» 
