518 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON [June 3, 



and was surprised at the speed with which the body of the nest was 

 formed ; the greater time seemed to be spent in lining and finishing 

 it."— T.K.S. 



200. Pachyrhamphus cinereiventris, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 242. 



P. dorsalis, ibid. p. 243. 



Sta. Elena. 

 Food, insects. 



It is not possible, we think, to keep separate the two forms dis- 

 tinguished in Sclater's Catalogue under the above-given names. 



201. Pachyrhamphtjs cinnamomeus, Lawr. Ann. L. N. Y. vii. 

 p. 295. 



Remedios. 



The Brown Becards of this genus have been long a source of 

 trouble to us, the question being whether they are distinct species or 

 females of the group of P. niger. Sclater, in his Review of Tity- 

 rifUB 1 , adhered to the former opinion; subsequently 2 he adopted Dr. 

 Cabanis's view that the brown birds are either females or young 

 males 3 . It will be impossible to decide this question satisfactorily, 

 except by the aid of resident observers ; but of late we have been in- 

 clined to swing round to Sclater's original theory. 



Mr. Salmon's specimens go to support this view, the one marked 

 " male" showing the second spurious primary, the other marked 

 "female" being without it, i. e. having this primary of its normal 

 length. 



On the whole we think it best for the present to employ Mr. Law- 

 rence's name for this northern red form (which extends from Guate- 

 mala to Colombia), and the term ritfus (Bodd.) for the Brazilian bird, 

 which seems to be its southern representative. 



If the brown birds are females and young males of the black forms, 

 we ought occasionally to me^t with intermediate specimens. But 

 amongst the multitudes that have come before us no such inter- 

 mediate specimen has ever occured. 



202. Pachyrhamphus versicolor (Haiti.); Scl. Cat. p. 243. 

 (Mus. S.-G.) 



203. LATHRiAFUSco-ciNEREA(Lafr.); Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. 

 ii. p. 101 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 56. 



Alegria. (Mus. S.-G.) 



204. Lathria unirufa (Scl). 

 Lipaugus unirufus, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 244. 

 Remedies, Neche. 



Food, insects. 



The occurrence of this Central- American species so far south of 

 Panama is new to us ; but it has been already recorded by Mr. Cassin 

 from the river Truando (Pr. Acad. Phil. 1860, p. 143). 



1 See P. Z. S. 1857, p. 79. * Cat. A. B. p. 242. : ' Mus. Hein. ii. p. 88. 



