﻿Birds 
  in 
  the 
  Norwich 
  Museum. 
  341 
  

  

  which 
  was 
  shot 
  in 
  Costa 
  Rica, 
  had, 
  when 
  killed, 
  yellow 
  legs 
  

   and 
  a 
  pale 
  orange 
  eye, 
  and 
  its 
  stomach 
  contained 
  the 
  remains 
  

   of 
  a 
  bird. 
  Its 
  back 
  is 
  not 
  so 
  brown 
  as 
  that 
  o£ 
  L. 
  super 
  - 
  

   ciliaris. 
  Mr. 
  Lawrence, 
  the 
  describer 
  of 
  this 
  rare 
  bird, 
  writes 
  

   me 
  that 
  he 
  has 
  seen 
  only 
  three 
  specimens. 
  

  

  We 
  have 
  still 
  to 
  get 
  Leucopiernis 
  princeps 
  (figured 
  by 
  

   Sclater, 
  P. 
  Z. 
  S. 
  1865, 
  pi. 
  xxiv.), 
  L. 
  plumbea 
  (figured. 
  Ibis, 
  

   1872, 
  p, 
  239), 
  and 
  L. 
  occidentalism 
  described 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Salvin, 
  

   to 
  complete 
  the 
  series. 
  Mr. 
  Cherrie 
  has 
  promised 
  to 
  obtain 
  

   for 
  us 
  the 
  first 
  and 
  last, 
  if 
  possible. 
  

  

  The 
  Museum 
  has 
  skins 
  of 
  L. 
  albicollis 
  (Latham) 
  from 
  

   Mexico, 
  Quito 
  {Jameson), 
  Trinidad, 
  and 
  British 
  Guiana, 
  and 
  

   examples 
  of 
  L. 
  schistacea 
  from 
  Bolivia, 
  the 
  Upper 
  Amazons 
  

   (two 
  collected 
  by 
  Bates), 
  Yquitos 
  (three), 
  Panama 
  (two), 
  and 
  

   Samiria 
  in 
  Peru. 
  Of 
  L. 
  schistacea 
  my 
  father 
  remarks 
  that 
  

   Taczanowski, 
  in 
  his 
  ' 
  Orn. 
  du 
  Perou^ 
  (i, 
  p. 
  109), 
  gives 
  the 
  iris 
  

   as 
  dark 
  brown, 
  but 
  that 
  three 
  collectors 
  have 
  marked 
  ex- 
  

   amples 
  in 
  the 
  Norwich 
  Museum 
  as 
  having 
  yellow 
  eyes 
  — 
  

   J. 
  H. 
  G. 
  [MS.). 
  

  

  Shortly 
  after 
  my 
  father's 
  death 
  Professor 
  Menzbier 
  sent 
  

   the 
  Museum 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  Severtzoff'^'s 
  Scelospizias 
  cenchroides 
  

   from 
  Turkestan. 
  In 
  ' 
  The 
  Ibis 
  ' 
  for 
  1875 
  (p. 
  480, 
  note) 
  it 
  is 
  

   stated 
  that 
  before 
  he 
  died 
  Dr. 
  Severtzoft' 
  admitted 
  that 
  

   *S^. 
  cenchroides 
  was 
  only 
  a 
  large 
  form 
  of 
  S. 
  badius, 
  but 
  in 
  

   1884 
  my 
  father 
  allowed 
  it 
  as 
  a 
  subspecies 
  in 
  his 
  'List.' 
  

   S. 
  cenchroides 
  is 
  figured 
  in 
  Menzbier's 
  ' 
  Ornithology 
  of 
  

   Turkestan,' 
  plate 
  iii., 
  where 
  the 
  profusion 
  of 
  cross-bars 
  is 
  

   shown. 
  We 
  already 
  had 
  Indian 
  specimens 
  of 
  S. 
  badius 
  

   which 
  in 
  size 
  and 
  tint 
  correspond 
  with 
  Severtzoff's 
  

   S. 
  cenchroides, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  interesting 
  to 
  have 
  got 
  others 
  

   guaranteed 
  by 
  Prof. 
  Menzbier, 
  whose 
  two 
  skins 
  are 
  labelled 
  

   " 
  Gjarman 
  " 
  and 
  '' 
  Sandych-Kagan." 
  

  

  My 
  father 
  limited 
  the 
  genus 
  Scelospizias 
  to 
  eight 
  species 
  

   and 
  five 
  subspecies. 
  Perhaps 
  an 
  enumeration 
  of 
  the 
  specimens 
  

   in 
  the 
  Norwich 
  Museum 
  may 
  not 
  be 
  out 
  of 
  place, 
  as 
  between 
  

   1884 
  and 
  1890 
  he 
  added 
  many, 
  but 
  struck 
  out 
  S. 
  castanilius 
  

   (Bp.) 
  as 
  being 
  doubtfully 
  distinct 
  from 
  S. 
  unduliventer 
  

   (Hupp.). 
  

  

  