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feathers beliiud the eye whitish ; ear-coverts hoary grey, 

 spotted with dark brown; cheeks white, mottled wdth dusky 

 margins to the feathers, with an indistinct dusky line along 

 the gape, and with a broad blackish malar stripe below; throat 

 whitish, with a slight orange tinge ; the rest of the under 

 surface of the body orange-rufous, the lateral breast-feathers 

 tipped with dusky brown; lower breast and abdomen white; 

 thighs externally ashy brown ; under tail-feathers orange ; 

 axillaries M'hite, with black tips ; under wing-coverts brown, 

 with the edge of the wing white, as well as a band along the 

 base of the quills. Total length 7'5 inches, culmen 1*0, wing 

 4-4, tail 2-6, tarsus 1-3. 



Fam. Capitonid^. 



Mesobucco eximtus, sp. nov. 



Adult male. General colour above gra?s-green ; wings and 

 tail like the back, with a bluish shade round the edge of the 

 wing and on the primary-coverts ; quills blackish, externally 

 green ; tail green, M'ith a bluish shade along the inner web ; 

 a broad frontal band of black slightly washed with blue, this 

 band followed by a broad band of crimson across the centre 

 of the crown ; lores, feathers above and below the eye, as 

 well as the ear-coverts, verditer-blue ; above the gape a 

 golden-yellow spot ; fore part of cheeks black, followed by 

 a spot of crimson; hinder cheeks yellowish green, like the 

 sides of the neck ; throat black, with a mark of verditer- 

 blue on each side of the lower throat; on the fore neck a 

 large spot of crimson ; rest of under surface yellowish green, 

 lighter on the abdomen ; under wing-coverts and quill-lining 

 ochreous-bufiF, the edge of the wing showing greenish blue. 

 Total length 6*2 inches, culmen 0"6, wing 3*15, tail 2*0, 

 tarsus 0*7. 



XXVI. — On a Collection of Birds from Central Nicaragua. 

 By OsBERT Salvin and F. DuCane Godman. 



Mr. W. B. E/Ichardson, who has for some time past been 

 diligently collecting birds in Central America, has recently sent 



