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Remarks. — The bill as well as the wings are proportionately 

 short, the spots above are large and conspicuous, and below 

 very obscure; it does not seem to require comparison with any 

 other species. 



2. Automoliis riifescens, nov. sp. 



Female. Upper plumage olivaceous tinged with cinnamon color, top 

 of the head and hind neck rather darker ; front, superciliary stripe, sides 

 of the head, throat and upper part of the breast of a clear, rather light 

 cinnamon, lower part of breast and abdomen paler, the latter, with the 

 sides and under tail coverts duller, and having an olivaceous tinge ; wing 

 coverts, tertiaries, secondaries and outer margins of primaries, bright red- 

 dish-cinnamon, the inner webs of the primaries, except at their bases, 

 blackish-brown ; under wing coverts bright cinnamon, the inner webs of 

 the primaries at base of a rather dull cinnamon ; two central tail-feathers 

 dull cinnamon slightly olivaceous, all the other tail-feathers reddish-cin- 

 namon, a little lighter in color than the wings; the upper mandible 

 brownish horn color, the edges and most of the under mandible 

 whitish, the sides of the latter blackish at the base ; tarsi and toes dark 

 fleshy-brown. 



Fourth quill longest, third and fifth nearly as long, second and sixth a 

 little shorter and equal, first quill shortest. 



Length (fresh) ty in. ; wing 3| ; tail 3£; tarsi | ; bill |i 



Habitat. Costa Rica, Birris. From Dr. A von Frantzius, 

 collected by Jose Paledon, May 15th, 1865. 

 Type in Mus. Smith. Inst., No. 39065. 



3. Grallaria gigantea, nov. sp. 



Hind part of crown and hind neck dark plumbeous, entire upper plum- 

 age besides rich olivaceous brown, front next the biil tinged with rufous ; 

 lores, sides of the head and under plumage dark rufous, the middle of 

 the abdomen only paler,, the sides of the neck and the whole of the 



