1862.] DR. p. L. SCLATER ON NEW BIRDS FROM BOGOTA. 109 



It affects sluggish streams, tanks, and paddy-fields ; in this respect it 

 diilPers from the Tanuli and Philopotami, which greatly prefer swiftly 

 running water. P. spiralis (from the north province of Ceylon) 

 and P. aeutus (from Madras, Trichinopoly, &c.) have similar habits 

 to P. chilindides, and are probably merely well-marked varieties of 

 the latter. 



" Helix (Nanina) ceylanica is a local variety of H. bistrialis. 

 The former inhabits the hills up to about 3000 feet ; the latter the 

 plains of the north provinces of Ceylon, and a great part of Southern 

 India. I send you a sketch of the animal of H. (Nanina) bistrialis." 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Characters of Nine New Species of Birds received in 



COLLECTIONS FROM BoGOTA. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., 



Ph.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. TuRDiD^. 



1. TURDUS EPHIPPIALIS. 



Supra cinereus, alis extus, nisi in primai'iorum parte terminali, et 

 interscapulio rufescente indutis : subtus pallide cinereus : gut- 

 ture albo, maculis triangularibus fuscis striata : ventre imo et 

 crisso albis : tectricibus subalaribus et remigum parte interna 

 pallide castanets : rostro plumbeo: tomiis pallescentibus : pedi- 

 bus fuscis. 

 Long, tot-a 8'5, alse 4*7, caudse 4*2 poll. Angl. et dec. 

 Hab. In Nov. Granada int. 

 Mus. P. L. S. 



Obs. Affinis Turdo albiventvi ex Cayenna, 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 amawochalinus, — 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. 



