j\Ir. J. Gould on new species of Birds. IBS 



first met with it in the niontli of March 18.V2, on one of the wooded 

 slopes of the Pir rinjul Mountains, westward of the vaUey of Cash- 

 mere ; its habits closely resemble those of P. enjthroccphala, fre- 

 quenting; as it does thick bushy places, and heinj^ usually seen in 

 small societies. It is not unconnnon in the valleys and jungles 

 around Cashmere. Dr. Adams remarks that, although the two 

 species are so similar in their habits and in the localities they fre- 

 quent, he never met with them in company; but noticed that while 

 the P. erijthvocephaJa was tolerably abundant in the ranges around 

 Simla, the present species was oidy seen on the hills in the neigh- 

 bourhood and to the westward of Cashmere. Its call is not so loud 

 as that of P. vulgaris, and somewhat resembles the chirp of the 

 Greenfinch, Chlorospiza chloris. 



For a new ^lotmot Mr. Gould proposed the name of 



MOMOTUS jEaUATORIALIS. 



Crown of the head deep black, surrounded by a zone of vcrditer 

 green, to which succeeds a line of fine deep blue from the anterior 

 portion of one eye round the occiput to the anterior portion of the 

 other ; to this succeeds a fringe of deep black from the nostrils 

 round the back of the neck ; lores, space below the eye and ear- 

 coverts black, with a very fine fringe of blue on the loAver edge and 

 a small tuft of vcrditer green at its hinder extremity ; all the upper 

 surface green, washed with cinnamon on the shoulders ; ])rimaries 

 green on their external webs, black on the inner ; tail dark bluish- 

 green ; under surface green, washed with cinnamon and with a tuft 

 of broad round black feathers, margined at their base with vcrditer 

 green, in the centre of the breast ;'bill black ; feet blackish-brown. 



Total length, IG inches; bill, 2'^; wing, G^ ; tail, 87] ; tarsi, 1^-. 



Ilab. Archidona, near the Equatorial line, on a branch of the Rio 

 Napo. 



Remarli. — This is a large and robust species, and differs from all 

 others in the broad spatulate feathers of the breast tuft. 



A very fine Odontophorus, remarkable for the rich chestnut-red 

 colouring of its under surface, received the appellation of 



Odontophorus hyperythrus. 



Crown of the head, wings, and upper surface of the body dark 

 brown, minutely freckled with black ; orbits naked, beset with minute 

 white feathers continued in a stripe behind the eye ; on the centre 

 of the back and wing-coverts are large blotches of velvety-black 

 and at the tip of the innermost secondaries a small oval spot of buff 

 throat, sides of the chest, breast, and abdomen dark chestnut-red 

 vent, thighs, and under tail-coverts blackish-brown, indistinctly 

 banded with dark sandy red ; tail nearly black ; bill and feet blackish- 

 brown. 



Total length, 10 inches; bill, |- ; wings, 5^ ; tail, 2^ ; tarsi, 2\. 



Hub. Santa Fe de Bogota. 



Remark. — For this bird Mr. Gould is indebted to the Messrs. 



