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  Bulletin 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Ornithologists' 
  Club. 
  

  

  " 
  Mr. 
  Eichardson 
  also 
  sends 
  a 
  specimen 
  o£ 
  Piprites 
  gri- 
  

   seiceps 
  from 
  San 
  Carlos, 
  which 
  is 
  only 
  the 
  second 
  we 
  have 
  

   seen 
  ; 
  and, 
  along 
  with 
  several 
  interesting 
  Formicariidse, 
  an 
  

   example 
  o£ 
  a 
  new 
  Rhopoterpe, 
  a 
  genus 
  not 
  yet 
  included 
  in 
  

   the 
  Central- 
  American 
  fauna. 
  This 
  we 
  propose 
  to 
  call 
  

  

  + 
  " 
  Rhopoterpe 
  stictoptera, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  r 
  " 
  J 
  R. 
  torquatie 
  affinis 
  et 
  ejusdem 
  staturse, 
  necnon 
  coloribus 
  

  

  plerumque 
  similis 
  ; 
  sed 
  capite 
  summo 
  obscuriore, 
  

  

  uropygio 
  et 
  cauda 
  fuscescentioribus, 
  remigibus 
  in 
  pogo- 
  

  

  ^ 
  nio 
  externo 
  ad 
  apicem 
  cervino 
  distincte 
  notatis, 
  maculis 
  

  

  i 
  celatis 
  in 
  pogonio 
  interno 
  cervinis 
  (nee 
  albis), 
  et 
  tec- 
  

  

  tricibus 
  majoribus 
  late 
  cervino 
  terminatis 
  distinguendus. 
  

  

  " 
  Hab. 
  Nicaragua 
  ; 
  Santo 
  Domingo. 
  

  

  *^We 
  also 
  find 
  in 
  Mr. 
  Richardson's 
  collection 
  a 
  single 
  

   specimen 
  of 
  Conurusfinschi, 
  originally 
  described 
  from 
  Panama 
  

   specimens 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  pair, 
  taken 
  at 
  Leon, 
  of 
  the 
  pretty 
  little 
  

   Gampsomjx 
  swainsoni, 
  a 
  well-known 
  bird 
  in 
  South 
  America, 
  

   but 
  quite 
  new 
  to 
  the 
  Central- 
  American 
  fauna.'' 
  

  

  A 
  second 
  communication 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Salvin 
  related 
  to 
  a 
  

   new 
  species 
  of 
  Petrel. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  birds 
  made 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Hawkins 
  on 
  the 
  

   Chatham 
  Islands 
  were 
  two 
  specimens 
  of 
  an 
  (Estrelata 
  be- 
  

   longing 
  to 
  a 
  species 
  allied 
  to 
  CE. 
  cooki, 
  but 
  which 
  differed 
  

   in 
  several 
  marked 
  characters. 
  The 
  skins 
  were 
  not 
  quite 
  

   adult, 
  but 
  were 
  marked 
  male 
  and 
  female 
  ; 
  the 
  birds 
  had 
  

   been 
  shot 
  on 
  the 
  south-east 
  island 
  on 
  the 
  8th 
  of 
  May, 
  1892. 
  

   Mr. 
  Salvin 
  proposed 
  to 
  describe 
  the 
  species 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  -^ 
  (Estrelata 
  axillaris, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  CE. 
  cooki 
  aflfiuis, 
  sed 
  minor 
  ; 
  rostro 
  breviore 
  et 
  magis 
  robusto 
  ; 
  

   supra 
  pallidior, 
  tectricibus 
  alarum 
  mediis 
  cinerascentibus 
  

   albo 
  limbatis, 
  rectricibus 
  lateralibus 
  magis 
  cinereis 
  ; 
  

   axillaribus 
  et 
  tectricibus 
  subalaribus 
  secundariis 
  nigris 
  : 
  

   rostro 
  nigro, 
  pedibus 
  carneis, 
  digitis 
  et 
  palamis 
  plerum- 
  

   que 
  nigris 
  ad 
  basin 
  carneis. 
  Long, 
  tota 
  circa 
  12-0 
  poll., 
  

   alffi 
  8-3, 
  caudae 
  rectr. 
  med. 
  3-8, 
  rectr. 
  lat. 
  3-2, 
  rostri 
  a 
  

   rictu 
  1-3, 
  tarsi 
  1-2, 
  dig. 
  med. 
  cum 
  ungue 
  I'S. 
  

   Hab. 
  Chatham 
  Islands. 
  

  

  