1862.] DR. P. L. SCLATER ON NEW BIRDS FROM BOGOTA. 109 
It affects sluggish streams, tanks, aud paddy-fields ; in this respect it 
differs from the Tanuli and Philopotami, which greatly prefer swiftly 
running water. P. spiralis (from the north province of Ceylon) 
and P. acutus (from Madras, Trichinopoly, &c.) have similar habits 
to P. chilinoides, and are probably merely well-marked varieties of 
the latter. 
* Helix (Nanina) ceylanica is a local variety of H. bistrialis. 
The former inhabits the hiils up to about 3000 feet; the latter the 
plains of the north provinces of Ceylon, and a great part of Southern 
India. I send youa sketch of the animal of H. (Nanina) bistrialis.”’ 
The following papers were read :— 
i. Cuaracters or Nine New Species or Birps RECEIVED IN 
COLLECTIONS FROM Bogota. By P. lL. Scuater, M.A., 
Pu.D., F.R.S., SEcRETARY TO THE SOCIETY. 
(Plate XI.) 
I have lately had an opportunity of examining several large col- 
lections of bird-skins from Bogota, containing altogether some three 
or four thousand individuals. The greater number of the species to 
which these belong are now well known in Europe, from their re- 
peated importation in Bogotan collections ; but I have found a few, 
principally among the more little-known groups, which appear to 
have been altogether overlooked or hitherto not collected. I beg 
leave to submit to the Society the following descriptions of these 
species. 
Fam. TurDIDz&. 
1. TuRDUS EPHIPPIALIS. 
Supra cinereus, alis eatus, nisi in primariorum parte terminali, et 
interscapulio rufescente indutis: subtus pallide cinereus: gut- 
ture albo, maculis triangularibus fuscis striato: ventre imo et 
crisso albis: tectricibus subalaribus et remigum parte interna 
pallide eastaneis : rostro plumbeo: tomiis pallescentibus : pedi- 
bus fuscis. 
Long. tota 8°5, alee 4:7, caude 4°2 poll. Angl. et dec. 
Hab. In Nov. Granada int. 
Mus. P. L. S. 
Obs. Affinis Turdo albiventri ex Cayenva, et ptilosi fere simili, 
sed interscapulio et alis extus rufescentibus, et subalaribus castaneis 
facile dignoscendus. 
I may remark that I have now received from the Berlin Museum 
a Thrush marked Turdus amaurochalinus,—a species with which I 
was not acquainted when I prepared my Synopsis of the American 
Thrushes, already printed in the Society’s ‘ Proceedings.’* This 
bird is certainly undistinguishable from what I consider to be Turdus 
albiventris of Spix, of which I have examples from Cayenne, Brazil, 
Bolivia, and Ecuador. My Turdus ignobilis of the highlands of New 
* See P. Z. S. 1859, p. 321. 
