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cuius (South-westeru Mexico) ; lache lawrencei (Tres 

 Marias) ; Platypsaris insularis (Tres Marias) ; Myiodyiiastes 

 malax insolens (South-eastern Mexico) ; Myiarclms brachy- 

 nrus (Nicaragua) ; Aphelocoma californica hypoleuca ; A. 

 cyanotis (Mexico) ; Corvus corax principalis ; C. americanus 

 liesperus ; Agelaius phoeniceus sonoriensis ; A. phceniceus bry- 

 anti ; Pinicola enucleator kadiaka ; Carpodacus mexicanus 

 ruberrimus ; Plectrophenax nivalis townsendi ; Cardinalis 

 cardinalis yucatanicus (Yucatan) ; Passerina parellina indi- 

 gotica (Soutli-western Mexico) ; P. sumichrasti (Tehuan- 

 tepec); P. versicolor pulchra ; Piranga flammea (Tres Marias) ; 

 Piranga leiicoptera latifasciata (Costa Rica and Veragua) ; 

 Ptilogonys cinereus molybdophanes (Guatemala) ; Lanius 

 ludovicianus gambeli; Vireo crassirostris flavescens (Bahamas); 

 Compsothlypis graysoni (Socorro) ; Geothlypis [Chamce- 

 thlypis) palpebralis (South-eastern Mexico) ; Thryothorus ma- 

 culipectus umbrinus (Guatemala) ; T. maculipectus canobrun- 

 neus (Yucatan) ; Polioptila carulea casiogaster (Bahamas) ; 

 ColumbigaUina passerina socorroensis (Socorro) ; Megascops 

 hastatus (Western Mexico) ; Phalcenoptilus nuttalli califor- 

 nicus ; Parus stoneyi and Regulus satrapa aztecus (Mexico) . 



17. Ridgway on a new Cotinga. 



[Description of a new Species of Cotinga from the Pacific coast of Costa 

 Rica. By Robert Ridgway, P. U.S. N. M. 1887, p. 1.] 



** Cotinga ridgwayi, Zeledon, MS./^ is similar in colour to 

 C. amabilis, but the scapulars and interscapulars are more ex- 

 tensively black centrally^ a black line borders the base of the 

 upper mandiblCj there is a black space in front of the eye, 

 and the purple patch on the breast is smaller, besides other 

 differences. The typical specimens are from Western Costa 

 Rica, but the " Bogota " skins in the National Museum of 

 the U.S.A. agree in all essential particulars. 



18. Ridgway on a new Spindalis. 



[Description of a new form of Spindalis from the Bahamas. By Robert 

 Ridgway. Pr. U.S. N. M. 1887, p. 3.] 



The form {Spindalis zena townsendi) is from Abaco Island, 



