506 Messrs. sclater and salvin on [June 3, 



Fam. FringillidjE. 



120. Hedymeles ludovicianus (Linn). 



Several examples without exact localities. This northern species 

 also occurs in Bogota collections. (Mus. S.-G.) 



121. Guiraca cyanoides (Lafr.) ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, 

 p. 352. 



Remedios. (Mus. S.-G.) 



122. Oryzoborus occidentals, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 2/6. 



Medellin. (Mus. S.-G.) 



Iris dark. Seeds in stomach. 



To this form of O. crassirostris Bogohi skins must also he referred. 



Eggs (no. 1 2) greyish brown, indistinctly blotched with lilac-grey, 

 and strongly marked with dark red-brown marks: axis # 93, diam. *6. 



" Not a common bird here. I have seen but one nest, which was 

 built in a low bush in a wild swampy place. It was constructed of 

 the stems of coarse grass, lined with a finer kind, and contained two 

 eggs mottled over with light brown with a few irregular blots and 

 dashes of a darker colour. The female was sitting, and the male 

 perched on a hush at a short distance." — T. K. S. 



123. Oryzoborus funereus, Scl. 



Oryzoborus funereus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 278, et O. cethiops, 

 Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 88. 



Medellin. (Mus. S.-G.) 



Iris dark. Food, seeds. 



Eggs (no. 5) greenish white, thickly marked with brown spots, 

 especially at the larger end : axis *73, diam. '55. 



In our 'Nomenclator' we have united these two species of Sclater's, 

 of which the former was founded on Mexican, the latter on Ecua- 

 dorian skins. The points of difference given when the latter was de- 

 scribed do not hold when a series is compared ; and the species must 

 be regarded as extending from Southern Mexico through Central 

 America into Colombia and Ecuador. 



"A not uncommon bird in wild uncultivated places, where it makes 

 its nest in low bushes, very slight in structure, of dry grass, and lays 

 two eggs, mottled over with brown of different shades, and a few 

 spots of a darker colour." — T. K. S. 



124. Spermophila minuta (Linn.); Scl. Ibis, 18/1, p. 3. 



Retiro, Medellin. (Mus. S.-G.) 



Iris dark. Food, seeds. 



Eggs (no. 9) white, clearly marked with several shades of rich red- 

 bvown spots : axis "65, diam. "51. 



" Builds in low bushes much the same sort of nest as S. gutturalis, 

 but of coarser grass." — T. K. S. 



