1866.] 



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Couirostro, sed rostro valde crassiore, alts cauduque breviori- 

 bus et pedibus fortioribus distinguendum. Remex primus longus, 

 longior quatn quintus, et secundum tertium et quartern fere 

 aqua/es et longissimos subcequans : cetera fere ut in genere 

 Conirostro. 



\\VHM! 



Bpodiomis jardinii. 



Typus et sp. unica S.jardinii. 



Grisescenti-plumbea, alis caudaque nigricantibus, dorsi colore 

 limbatis : subtus vix dilutior, crisso albicante striato: rostro 

 nigricanti-plumbeo tomiis pallidis, pedibus corylinis : long, tota 

 4'7, alee 285, caudee 1*9, rostri a rictu 0"5, tarsi 065. 



Hab. in sylvis reipubl. iEquatorialis. 



Mus. P. L. S. et Gul. Jardine, Baronett. 



I am greatly indebted to my friend Sir William Jardine for allow- 

 ing me to abstract from his collection a skin of this interesting bird, 

 which must, I think, be referred to a new form of the family Ccere- 

 bidce, distinguishable by its thickened, almost Conirostral bill. A 

 second example of the same species, obtained, like the former, by 

 Professor Jameson in the Quitian Andes, remains in Sir William's 

 possession. 



The whole plumage of Spodiornis is plumbeous or dark cinereous, 

 the wings and tail being blackish, edged, except in the primaries 

 and outer rectrices, with plumbeous. The colour below is rather 

 paler, especially on the crissum, where there are faint whitish stria- 

 tions. The general appearance of the bird reminds one at once of the 

 very similarly coloured Finch found in Bogota collections, which in 

 my 'American Catalogue' I have called Phrygilus geospisopsis {op. 



