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de Belgique* for February last. A male bird from the same quarter 
has been kindly entrusted to me for examination before being depo- 
sited in the British Museum, where the female I originally named is 
also to be found. I cannot agree with the Vicomte DuBus in con- 
sidering this species a Lanio, but, after seeing the male, am the more 
convinced that it is a true Tachyphonus. 
3. TANAGRA NOTABILIS, Jardine. (Pl. XCI.) 
T. flavo-olivacea : capite undique et mento nigris, macula nuchal 
triangulari, a dorso linea nigra divisa, flava: alis nigris ca- 
ruleo marginatis, tectricibus autem summis dorso concoloribus : 
cauda nigra, margine vix cerulescente: subtus lete aurantio- 
flava ; rostro pedibusque nigris. 
Long. tota 7:2, ale 3°7, caude 3°0. 
Hab. in rep. Equatoriana. 
Sir William Jardine has been so good as to lend me the types of 
this and the following species of Tanagers for examination. They 
were lately procured by Professor Jameson of Quito, during a botani- 
cal excursion along the eastern range of Cordilleras to the north of 
Quito, and are to be described with other rare birds, the product of 
the same or similar expeditions, in the forthcoming number of the 
new series of the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. 
The present bird is a most brilliant fourth of the little section 
denominated Compsocoma by Cabanis, easily distinguished from the 
others by its yellow-olive back, triangular nape-spot, black chin and 
orange-yellow under-plumage, and may be therefore called Compso- 
coma notabilis, if that name is used generically. The other three 
species of this group are—(1) Compsocoma victorini, with its dark 
olive back and elongated nape-stripe, which is common in collections 
from Bogota; (2) C. swmptuosa (Arch. du Musée Paris., vil. p. 379. 
pl. 23), with the back black and uropygium olivascent, from Trans- 
andean Ecuador—the same locality as the present—and Peru ; and 
(3) C. flavinucha, a rare species in collections, which seems confined 
to Bolivia, where d’Orbigny discovered it on the eastern slope of the 
Andes of the province of La Paz. 
4, SALTATOR ARREMONOPS, Jardine. (PI. XCII.) 
S. rufo-brunneus, olivaceo parum tinctus, pectore multo clariore 
et rubescentiore: capite toto mentoque nigris ; vitta mediali 
verticis et superciliari utringue postice elongatis cum medio 
ventre cinereis : alis intus et cauda nigricantibus: rostro et 
pedibus nigris. 
Long. tota 7°25, alee 3°2, caudze 3°5. 
Hab. in rep. Equatoriana. 
This peculiar Tanager in style of plumage and general habit cor- 
* The article is entitled ‘“ Note sur quelques espéces inédites d’Oiseaux.’’ The 
Nemosia torquata therein described (sp. 10) is my Dacnis pulcherrima, Rev. et 
Mag. de Zool. 1853, p. 480-—(a true Dacnis to my mind) ; and, is not Vireosylvia 
Ffrenata, DuBus, sp. 1, the same as V. altilogua, Vieill.—Cassin, Birds of Cal. pl. 37. 
p. 221—and Phyllomanes mystacalis, Cab. Wiegm. Arch. 1844, p. 348? 
