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of bird:> from the Tring Museum : Macnrcjoria pvlclrra and 

 Astrojjia sj^lthdUIissii/ia {vriih. thehitlierto undescribeu female) 

 from Ne^■^ Guinea^ Mijiadestes coracina from Colombia. 

 ZosicTOps bahelo from tbe Talaut Islands, Scops alfredi from 

 FloreSj and a female of Eudyriamis liovorata, in nearly com- 

 plete barred ijlumaire, but I'etaining still some black feathers 

 of the nrst plumage,. Avhen both males and females are 

 entirely black. 



]\Ir. Ilartert vras also able to announce that good results 

 might shortly be espected from the expeditions despatched 

 by ^Ir. Rothschild to the Galapagos Islands and the Pwiver 

 Orinoco. 



Mr. OsBERT Salvix forwarded descriptions of five species 

 of South-American birds: four of them from British Guiana, 

 Trhence the specimens had been sent by the late Henry "Whitely 

 and received in this country after his death. The fifth -was 

 from ilr. Pratt, who is now exj^loring in the Cauca Valley, 

 Colombia^ and was sent in a collection of birds made at a 

 place called Valparaiso, not far .from Antioquia, and 3800 

 feet above the sea-level. 



Platykhynchus GRisEicEPs, sp. n. 

 P. sent similis, sed capite summo multo grisescentiore^ dorso 

 pallidiore, et abdomine fiavescentiore distinguendus. 

 Long, tota 4-2 poll., als 2-6, caudse 1"4, tarsi O'oo. 



Hab. Aunai, British Guiana [H. Whitehj). 



Obs. In his last collection the late Henry Whitelv sent 

 jseverai specimens of this species. It is closely allied to 

 P. senex, Scl. & Salv., of Eastern Ecuador, and, like the 

 latter, has the concealed spot of the crown pure white, but 

 differs in the points mentioned above. 



TODIROSTIIUM PICTUM, Sp. n. 



Supra olivaceum, dorso medio indistincte nigro striato ; pileo 

 toto, nucha et capitis lateribus nigerrimis; loris dimidio 

 . superiore, et stria lata sub oculos ducta, albis ; gula 

 alba, distincte nigro striata ; gastreeo reliquo flavo, 

 pectore distincte et Ijypochondriis indistincte nigro 

 striatis ; alls nigris, secundariis flavo limbatis, tectricibus 

 majoribus et mediis quoque flavo maculatis ; cauda 



