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have ascertained that it is common in the warm valleys of the Andes, 

 about forty miles away, and builds its nests in corners against the 

 walls, like our familiar species in England. Ten years ago I met 

 with a flock near here in a field of alfalfa (lucerne), and was fortu- 

 nate enough to kill the one I sent you. Last New-year's day, in 

 the same field, I saw a flock of about two hundred, and killed four, 

 three males and a female." — W. N. 



3. Tanagra darwini, Bp. 



" I have now one of these beautiful birds alive. It will uot eat 

 seeds of any kind, only fruit." — W. N. 



4. Spermophila TELASco (Lcss.); Bp. Consp. p. 496. 



I have previously seen specimens of this scarce species only in the 

 Museums of Paris and Philadelphia. 



" I have hitherto thought that this bird left us in winter, but have 

 recently discovered that its plumage is then so different as to have 

 led me to take it for another bird. The female lays two eggs, of a 

 bluish green." — W. N. 



— 5. PoospiZA bonapartii. (PI. XX. c? et 2 .) 



Poospiza dominicensis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 473 (?). 



Supra cinerea, interscapulio bruntiescente lavato ; capitis lateri- 

 bus nigris, superciliis elongatis albis : alts fusco-nigris, pi'i- 

 mariis et tectricibus albo, secundariis fulvo marginatis : cauda 

 fusco-nigra, rectricum. lateralium omnium pogoniis internis fere 

 omnino albis : subtus alba, torque gutturali nigro, lateribus 

 cinerascentibus, crisso medio rufescente : tectricibus subalari- 

 bus et remigum marginibus internis albis : rostro et pedibus 

 pallide corneis : long, tota 5 poll. Angl., alee 2'5, caudee 1*9, 

 rostri a rictu 0"6, tarsi 0*8. 

 Foem. Supra fusca, nigricante substriata ; alis caudaque nigro- 

 fuscisy brunneo marginatis ; superciliis elongatis, sordide albis : 

 subtus fulvescenti-albida, lateraliter cinereo flammulata, torque 

 nigro vix apparente. 

 Hab. in Peruvia Occident, prope Lima (Nation). 

 Obs. Similis P. torquatcB (D'Orb. et Lafr.) sed crisso rufo vix 

 tincto et rostro crassiore longiore et ad basin carneo distinguenda. 



This is a very distinct species of the genus Poospiza, quite un- 

 known to me, though it may possibly be identical with the bird de- 

 scribed in Bonaparte's ' Conspectus ' as P. dominicensis. If this be 

 the case, however, the locality assigned is quite erroneous, and I pro- 

 pose to give the bird a new specific name. 



P. bonapartii is most nearly allied to P. torquata, as I have 

 pointed out above, having a similar black breast-band, which is almost 

 obsolete in the female bird. 



" Resident with us a few weeks every year, and usually met with 

 in company with Zonotrichue and Spermophili &c." — \V. N. 



