in specimens from the localities recorded below, but a slight approach to it is seen in 

 examples from various parts of South America, though never to the same extent as in 

 the birds of Central America and Ecuador. 



The present species was first named by Mr. G. N. Lawrence, from specimens pro- 

 cured by McLeannan in Panama, and several individuals collected by him on the line of 

 railway in this State are in the Salvin-Godman collection. 



Mr. Salvin himself noticed the species in abundance at Obispo in May 1873, its 

 favourite resting-place being the telegraph-wires placed along the line of railway. Schott 

 found it on the Truando Biver, and specimens obtained at Chitra near Chiriqui in the 

 State of Panama by Arce are in the Salvin-Godman collection. It extends northwards 

 to Costa Pica (von Frantzhis, Zeledon), and Carmiol procured examjdes at Angostura 

 in that country, in June and August. 



In South America it has not a very extended range, but it occurs not unfrequently 

 in " Bogota " collections. Mr. Wyatt met with it at Ocaha and Bucarramanga in the 

 Magdalena A 7 alley. Salmon also found it at Santa Elena and Pemedios in the Cauca 

 Valley : at the latter place it was breeding. A Venezuelan specimen is in the British 

 Museum. 



In Ecuador Eraser procured specimens of the present species at Esmeraldas and 

 Babahoyo, and an example obtained by Stolzmann at Lechugal in "Western Peru, on the 

 5th of October, is recorded by Dr. Taczanowski ; and a specimen from Paucal is in the 

 Paimondi collection. 



A skin said to be from Bahia is in the British Museum, but there must be some 

 mistake as to the locality of this specimen. 



No further notes on the habits of this species have been published, but they will 

 doubtless be found to be identical with those of its congener, S. riificollis. The eggs 

 procured by Salmon at Pemedios are white. 



The adult bird figured in the Plate is drawn from a specimen in Mr. Wyatt 's 

 collection from Ocaha, and the young bird from a Costa P-ican example in the Salvin- 

 Godman collection. The descriptions are from birds in the British Museum. 



