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MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON BIRDS [Feb. 5, 



During his journey across South America Prof. Steere made a 

 collection of 911 skins of birds, belonging to about 362 species of 

 the following groups : — 



ex. 



Passeres 

 Cypseli . . 

 Pici ... 



Coccyges 



503 



108 



23 



93 



1 



2 

 3 

 4 



5. Psittaci 35 



6. Striges 14 



7. Accipitres. ... 23 



8. Steganopedes . 3 



sp. ex. sp. 



145 9. Herodiones ..13 9 



52 10. Anseres 5 4 



17 11. Columbse 27 14 



45 12. Gallinse 7 5 



16 13. Grues 4 4 



5 14. Limicolae .... 41 18 



16 15. Gavise 7 5 



3 16. Crypturi 5 4 



As might have been expected from the fact of Prof. Steere not 

 having made a lengthened stay at any of the localities visited, the 

 greater number of the specimens which he collected belong to 

 well-known species, which we have named according to our * No- 

 menclator Avium Neotropicalium.' But there are examples of 

 twenty-two species amongst them, either unknown to us or other- 

 wise of interest, concerning which we have the following notes to 

 offer. 



1. Oryzobortjs atrirostris, sp. nov. 



Ater ceneonitens unicolor ; remigibua primariis ad basin albis, 

 speculum parvum tectricibus absconditum efficientibus ; rostra 

 crasso, nigro ; caudd pautum rotunda t a : long, tola 6"0, 

 aloe 2-9, cauda 27, tarsi 075. 



a h 



a. Head of Oryzdborvs erassirostris. 



b. Head of 0. atrirostris. 



Hub. Moyobamba, Peru (Steere). 



Obs. Ab O. crassirostri et affinibus rostro robustiore et nigro 

 diversus. 



This Oryzoborus, of which Prof. Steere only obtained a siugle 

 example, now in the Museum of the University of Michigan, is 

 quite new to us '. It is readily distinguishable from O. crassiros- 



1 Sporophila Othello, Bp. Consp. i. p. 498, ex Am. Centr. (Mus. Berol.) is 

 unknown to us and indeterminable, unless the type is existent. 



