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lores and circle around the eye rufous; ear coverts brownish rufous ; a 

 narrow semicircular band of black feathers extends in front of and 

 under the eye ; throat, breast, and sides of a rather dull orange rufous, 

 somewhat dusky on the latter, on the breast and sides some of the 

 feathers are marked with black marginal stripes ; abdomen and under 

 tail coverts whitish buff; the thighs brownish olive ; upper mandible 

 black, the under gamboge yellow ; the rictal bristles are very long ; 

 irides brown ; legs pale yellowish brown, claws whitish. 



Length (fresh) 4| in.; alar extent V| ; wing 2f ; tail l^g ; tarsi -ff ; 

 bill from front ^, from rictus %. 



Habitat. Costa Rica, Barranca. Collected by F. Carmiol, 

 April 10th, 1865. 



Specimen in Mus. Smith. Inst., No. of type, 41133. 



Remarks. — This species is somewhat like G.ferrugineipectus, 

 Scl., but that species appears to differ in having the throat white, 

 the shoulders ochraceous, and to be without the black margins 

 to the feathers of the breast. 



5. Phaethornis Cassinii, nov. sp. 



Female. Plumage above with the smaller and middle wing coverts 

 of a rather dull reddish or coppery bronze, feathers of the crown darker, 

 the coppery bronze on them deeper in color, and each feather with a 

 terminal blackish margin ; the upper tail coverts light rufous with black- 

 ish subterminal bars ; the tail feathers are pale greenish olive at the 

 base, succeeded by a broad black band, the four lateral feathers on each 

 side are marked at their ends with reddish fulvous, the long ends of the 

 central feathers are white ; the larger wing coverts dark brown, the 

 quills brownish purple ; lores and ear coverts black ; throat blackish- 

 brown intermixed with dull fulvous, a stripe down the centre of the 

 throat, one on each side of the neck from the corner of the mouth, and 

 a superciliary stripe of fulvous; under plumage of a dull brownish-grey, 

 the abdomen and under tail coverts tinged with fulvous ; upper mandible 

 black, the under yellow with the end dusky. 



Length of skin 6 in. ; wing 2^; tail 2| ; bill 1-|. 



