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in sufficiently good order to describe or identify. Mr. 

 Sclater_, who thinks it is probably new, has kindly given me 

 the subjoined note on it : — 



" A single example of a species allied to H. pileatus of 

 Pelzeln, but probably distinct, having the head striated with 

 white." 



72. FORMICIVORA GRISEA. 



I obtained specimens of this bird at Parahyba and Qui- 

 papa, and also believe that I saw it in the second-growth 

 woods outside Recife, but it was nowhere common. 



Eyes brown ; beak black ; feet dark grey, the nails blacker. 



73. FORMICIVORA RUFATRA. 



I got this bird in the bush-covered country around Para^ 

 hyba, but did not afterwards meet with it. 

 Irides brown; legs lead-coloured. 



74. Aphantochroa cirrochloris. 



I shot a single specimen of this Hummer out of a large 

 tree, in which it was perched high above the ground, in a 

 patch of forest covering the top of a hill near Macuca. 



-\-7o. ChRYSOLAMPIS MOSCHITUS. 



I shot a specimen of this Avidely distributed species out of 

 a high tree in some forest near Garanhuns. 



76. Chrysobronchus virescens. 



The commonest Humming-bird at Recife, Arhere it may 

 be seen all round the town in gardens, coming sometimes 

 into houses ; and I have also seen it once or tAvice hovering 

 round the flowering bushes in the gardens in the town itself. 

 I also got it at Cabo. The name aj)plicd to all Humming- 

 birds is '' Bejaflor,'' or '' Kiss-Flower.'' 



77. EUCEPHALA CiERULEA. 



This Hummer I believe I saw several times near Recife, 

 in the lanes and roads outside the town. At Parahyba it was 

 rather common, and there I shot specimens. 



78. Hydropsalis forcipata. 



Whilst staying at the house of my friend Dr. Lustoza, 



