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first met with it in the month of March 1852, on one of the wooded 

 slopes of the Pir Pinjal Mountains, westward of the valley of Cash- 

 mere ; its habits closely resemble those of P. erythrocephala, fre- 

 quenting as it does thick bushy places, and being usually seen in 

 small societies. It is not uncommon in the valleys and jungles 

 around Cashmere. Dr. Adams remarks that, although the two 

 species are so similar in their habits and in the localities they fre- 

 quent, he never met with them in company ; but noticed that while 

 the P. erythrocephala is tolerably abundant in the ranges around 

 Simla, the present species was only seen on the hills in the neigh- 

 bourhood and to the westward of Cashmere. Its call is not so loud 

 as that of P. vulgaris, and somewhat resembles the chirp of the 

 Greenfinch, Chlorospiza chloris. 



For a new Motmot Mr. Gould proposed the name of 



MOMOTUS JLQUATORIALIS. 



Crown of the head deep black, surrounded by a zone of verditer 

 green, to which succeeds a line of fine deep blue from the anterior 

 portion of one eye round the occiput to the anterior portion of the 

 other ; to this succeeds a fringe of deep black from the nostrils 

 round the back of the neck ; lores, space below the eye and ear- 

 coverts black, with a very fine fringe of blue on the lower edge and 

 a small tuft of verditer green at its hinder extremity ; all the upper 

 surface green, washed with cinnamon on the shoulders ; primaries 

 green on their external webs, black on the inner ; tail dark bluish - 

 green ; under surface green, washed with cinnamon and with a tuft 

 of broad round black feathers, margined at their base with verditer 

 green, in the centre of the breast ; bill black ; feet blackish-brown. 



Total length, 1G inches; bill, 2\ ; wing, 6^-; tail, 8f ; tarsi, li. 



Hab. Archidona, near the Equatorial line, on a branch of the Rio 

 Napo. 



Remark. — This is a large and robust species, and diifers from all 

 others in the' broad spatulate feathers of the breast tuft. 



A very fine Odontophorus, remarkable for the rich chestnut-red 

 colouring of its under surface, received the appellation of 



Odontophorus hyperythrus. 



Crown of the head, wings, and upper surface of the body dark 

 brown, minutely freckled with black ; orbits naked, beset with minute 

 white feathers continued in a stripe behind the eye ; on the centre 

 of the back and wing-coverts are large blotches of velvety-black ; 

 and at the tip of the innermost secondaries a small oval spot of buff; 

 throat, sides of the chest, breast, and abdomen dark chestnut-red ; 

 vent, thighs, and under tail-coverts blackish-brown, indistinctly 

 banded with dark sandy red ; tail nearly black ; bill and feet blackish- 

 brown. 



Total length, 10 inches; bill, |- ; wings, 5f ; tail, 2\; tarsi, 2\. 



Hab. Santa Fe' de Bogota. 



