460 Ant. Reich enow und Her man Schalow: 



Spring plumage: Entire upper parts, excepting forehead, 

 clear, bright, olive green, with a tinge of yellowish in certain 

 lights; quills and rectrices dark plumbeous brown, their outer 

 webs fringed with olive green like that of the back. Below, 

 including crissum, bright cadmium yellow of nearly the same 

 shade throughout. Forehead, bright yellow, this color bounded 

 anteriorly by a very narrow black line from lores, and behind 

 gradually merging into the clear olive green of crown; feathers 

 of Vertex with a median concealed area of black. Lores velvety 

 black, auriculars black, tipped with yellowish-green , giving them 

 a mottled appearance. A yellow area beneath the eye separates 

 the black of lores from that of auriculars. 



Greater and lesser wing-coverts tipped with greenisch-yellow, 

 forming two indistinct wing-bars, outer primary edged with whitish. 

 Inner webs of two outer tail feathers narrowly margined with 

 white near the tip. 



Bill, in the üesh, black, excepting extreme tip, and base of 

 lower mandible, which are bluish horn-color; culmen slightly 

 decurved, with trace of a notch at tip. Rictus with fairly deve- 

 loped bristles extending nearly or quite to nostrils, here differing 

 from any other species of the genus. Eyes, dark brown; tarsi 

 and toes, pale brownish ; claws paler. Dimensions : Length 4,75 ; 

 wing 2,50; tail 1,85; culmen 0,44; from nostril 0,34; tarsus 0,70. 



142. Nemosia chrysopis. 



Sclater and Salvin, F. Z. S. 1880 II p. 155. 



Cinerea; dorso superiore, alis extus et pileo toto flavicante 

 lavatis; loris, capitis lateribus et gutture toto flavis, hoc colore 

 in pectore et ventre dilutiore; alis intus et cauda fuscis; remigum 

 marginibus interioribus albis; rostro corylino; pedibus plumbeis: 

 Lg. tot. 5,2; al. 2,7; caud. rotund. 2,2; tars. 0,8. 



Hab.: Sarayacu, Ecuador, (Buckley). 



Obs.: Species affinis N. rußcipiti et N. sordidae, sed colore 

 uniformi insignis. 



Fam. RHACNEMWIDAE. 



143. Arrenga melanura. 



Salvador!, Ann. Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Genova XIV 1879 

 p. 227. 



[Vergl. Serie I Journ. f. Orn. 1879 p. 321.] 



i44. Catkaropeza nov. gen. 



P. L. Sclater, Ibis Vol. 4 No. 13 Jan. 1880 p. 79. 



Ditfers from Leucopeza in its shorter and broader bill, the 

 slight bristles on the rictus, the shorter tail and rather shorter 

 and stouter tarsi. 



Typus: Leucopoza hisliopi Lawr. 



145. Margarops dominicensis. 



G. N. Lawrence, Proc. Un. St. Nat. Mus. 1880—81 (March 

 27, 1880) p. 16. 



The entire upper plumage is of a rieh dark brown, the crown 



