HAUI'OUilYNCIIUB. 



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the foatherg of criHsuni rufous, edged with palo brownish-yellow 

 (instead of their being dirty white). Tiie bill ia very difl'erent, 

 being longer, slenderer, more pointi'd towards the end, and more 

 gently decurved than that of II. curvirostria. Its dinu'nsion8 aro 

 an follows: From forehead, 1.40; from gape, 1.52; from nostril, 

 1.00, mea.sured with dividers. In 4,01(5, from IJrownsville, tho 

 measurements are: From forehead, 1.25; from gape, 1.32; from 

 nostril, .M3. 



Without more specimens to cHtablish a permanent difTcrcnce in 

 these respects, I do not feel at liberty to suggest a diflerenee of 

 species, especially as the skin referred to belongs to the region in- 

 habited by typical H. longirontris. 



LocaUty. 



When 

 Collected. 



BrowoHvllle, Tex. 

 Lower Kiu Uraode. 

 Mexico. 

 Orl/alia, Mex. 

 El Mlrador, Mex. 

 Xulapa. 



Sept. 1853. 



Received from 



Lt. D. N. Couch. 

 Major Einorjr. 

 Veireaux. 

 PioC. SiiiiiichrRHt. 

 Dr. 0. SHi'torliiK. 

 Cab. Lawrence. 



Collected hj 



A. Sibott. 



D'Oca. 



(4,01«.) 10.25. Hj'M browDlih-yellow. (28,0:iO.) Long biUed variety. 



Harporhynchiis curvirostris. 



Orpheus cnrviroatris, SwAtNSox, Philoa. Mag. 1827, 369 (eastern Mexico). 

 — M'Call, Pr. A. N. So. May, 1848, 63. — Mimas curriros/rls, Gray, 

 Genera, 1844—49. — Toxostomn atrvirostris, Uonap. ConHpectiis, 1850, 

 277.— acLATER, P. Z. S. 1857, 212.— Ifdrporhynchus curvirostris, 

 • Cab. Mua. Hein. I, 1850, 81.— Baird, Bi ds N. Am. 1858, .351, pi. 

 li.— Herrmann, P. R. R. Rep. X, Parke's Rep. 1859, 11.— Sclateb, 

 P. Z S. 1859, 339.— Ib. Catal. 1861, 7, no. 46. 



Pomntorhinus turdinns, Tbmm. H. Col. 441. 



t Toxostoma vetula, Waglbr, Isis, 1831, 528. 



Hah. Mexico, from the United States line, southward (Oaxaca, Cordova, 

 Orizaba, Mirador) ; Mazatian ; Colima. 



Specimens from Mazatlan and Colima differ from those in the col- 

 lection from eastern Mexico, in having heavier and thicker bills, and 

 perhaps stouter legs. In 31,819, the height of the bill at the nostrils 

 is .28 of an inch, while in 4,028 it is .26— both being females. The 

 wing in 31,819 is longer and more pointed than u.sual, measuring 

 4.50. I, however, cannot think that there is any specific difference : 

 a large number of specimens from either side of Mexico probably 

 exhibiting the same variations. 



The specimen, No. 8,128, mentioned on page 352 of the Report 



