= 
1870.] ON VENEZUELAN BIRDS. 785 
Hab. Paramos of Merida (Goering). 
Obs. Affinis OC. castaneicolli, Sclater, et ejusdem forme, quamvis 
robustior, sed dorso schistaceo et superciliis distinctis, necnon gula 
tota castanea distinguendus. 
Mr. Goering obtained a single male specimen of this fine new 
species near the boundary of the upper wood-region of the Paramos 
of Merida. The iris is noted as ‘‘dark brown.’ The contents of 
the stomach were “small fruits.” The bird is said to be ‘‘ very rare.” 
32. BUARREMON MERIDA, Sp. nov. 
Supra olivaceus, alis caudaque intus fuscis: pileo toto et nucha 
castaneis: lateribus capitis nigris: vitta mystacali utrinque 
alba, a gula linea angusta nigra divisa: subtus lete flavus, 
lateribus et ventre imo in olivaceum trahentibus: rostro nigro, 
pedibus obscure corylinis: long. tota 6°5, ale 2°8, caude 3:2, 
tarsi |. 
Hab. Merida (Goering). 
Obs. Proximus B. albifrenato, sed gula flava nec alba, et fronte 
pileo concolori, nec nigro, diversus. 
But one example of this apparently new Buarremon is in Mr. 
Goering’s collection, obtained near Merida in July 1869. It is 
marked ‘‘ male; iris reddish brown.” 
34. PHRYGILUS UNICOLOR (Lafr. et D’Orb.). 
Phrygilus unicolor et P. geospizopsis, Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 110. 
Chlorospiza plumbea, Ph. et Landb. Wiegm. Arch. 1864, p. 67. 
Mr. Goering sends us a pair of this species from the Paramos of 
Merida. Upon comparing them with a series of eleven specimens in 
Sclater’s collection from various parts of the highlands of Columbia, 
Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, and also with Chilian specimens obtained 
in the Cordillera of Santiago and transmitted by Herr Landbéck as 
typical of Chlorospiza plumbea, we are of opinion that these birds 
are all referable to one species, as Sclater has already hinted (J. s. e. 
and P. Z. 8. 1857, p. 322). 
35. CHRYSOMITRIS XANTHOGASTRA, Du Bus, Bull. Ac. Brux. 
xxi. pt. 1,.p..152 (1853). 
Chrysomitris bryanti, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Se. Phil. 1865, p. 91; 
Lawr. Ann. L. N. Y. ix. p. 104. 
This Finch was originally described from examples procured near 
Ocana in Columbia, not far distant from Merida. We have likewise 
met with it in Bogota collections ; and in Sclater’s cabinet is a skin 
of the same species obtained by Mr. David Forbes, F.R.S., in Bo- 
livia. Moreover, on comparing it with Costa-Rican examples of C. 
bryanti in Salvin’s collection we cannot discover any differences, so 
that it is evidently a species of wide range, though, apparently, 
nowhere very common. 
38. CyANOCITTA ARMILLATA (G. R. Gray). 
Two examples of a Cyanocitta, obtained in May 1869 in the 
