Miscellaneous. 235 



On new species of Birds from the Rio Kajw, in the Itejnifjlic of 

 Ecuador. By Philip Lutley Slater, M.A. 



El.enia luteivextris. 



Supra fusca unicolor, alis candaque paido saturatioribii.s ; gut- 

 ture griseo, abdomine medio et crisso cum tectricibus alarum 

 inferioribus sidphureo-fiavis, pectore et lateribus oleugineis ; 

 rostra et pedibvs nigris. 

 Long, tota 0-3, alse 2-8, caudee 2-3, tarsi 0-6. 

 A typical Elcenia of the same form as E. pugana, the type of the 

 genus, but of smaller size, and diifering in colouring froin all mem- 

 bers of the group with which I am acquainted. 



Crevrgops*, genus novum, Lauioni e^ Trichothraupidi ajine, sed 

 rostro diverso. Rostrum breve, crassum, culmine versus apicem 

 incurvo, gonyde vix ascendente, cormnissura modice arcuata, 

 mandibula superiore dente mediali distincto et altero finali 

 instructo ; vibrissis rictalibus nonmdlis : alee modicce, caudce 

 tertiam partem attingentes, remigibus secunda, quarta et quinta 

 tequalibus et longissimis, prima his paulo breviore : cauda 

 longa, apice quadrat a. 



Crelrgops verticalis, J. Verreaux, MS. 



Supra fuscescenti-schistacea, pileo semicristato saturate ferru- 

 gineo, hujus lateribus cumfronte nigricantibus : alis caudaque 

 fusco-nigris ; subtus ferruginescenti-ochracea : rostro nigri- 

 cante, gonydis basi albida, pedibus fuscis. 

 Long, tota 6-2, alae 3-2, caudee 2b, rostri a rictu 07, tarsi 0-85. 

 This peculiar Tanager seems to belong to the neighbourhood of 

 Lanio, Tachyphonus and their allies, and, like the former, has a very 

 sharply defined notch about two-thirds of the distance along the edge 

 of the upper mandible. But the bill is otherwise very different from 

 that of ie/(?o, being much shorter, broader, thicker, and more swollen, 

 with the culmen much arched towards the tip. The single specimen 

 which I have examined is not in very good condition, but its perfect 

 distinctness from every kuown species of Tanager is obvious at first 

 sight. — Proc. Zool. Soc. Jan. 2G, 1858. 



On the Genera Orbulina and Globigerina of TfOrbigny. 



By L. F. POL'RTALES. 



Hitherto the two genera of Foraminifera established under the 

 names of Orbulina and Globigerina by D'Orbigny had been widely 

 separated in the classification ; he had even put them in different 

 orders, although he had remarked the similarity in the structure of 

 the shell. Ehrenberg also places them in different families (the 

 former under the name of ^Wio^a), but marks the two genera of 

 Miliola and Gromia as doubtful, and appends to the characteristics 



* Kfieovpybs laiiins, et w^pjacies. 



