PHAINOPTILA MELANOXANTHA, Sahin^ 



By Mr. G. D. ROWLEY. 



(Plate LXXIX.) 



In the ^Proceedings of the Zoological Society/ part ii. 1877, pp. 367, 368, 

 we find : — 



" Description of a New Genus and Species of Oscines from Costa Rica, 

 By OsBERT Salvin, M.A., F.R.S. 



[Received April 17, 1877.] 



' " The ornithology of Costa Rica has lately attracted much attention ; 

 and it might have been supposed that our knowledge of this subject was 

 tolerably complete. During the past seventeen years many large collections 

 of birds have been made in that Republic ; and the results derived from their 

 examination have been published by Dr. Cabanis* in Germany, and by 

 Mr. Lawrencef in America; while several new species have been brought 

 to notice by Mr. Sclater and myself J in this country. 



^' It appears, however, that the mountainous districts of Costa Rica 

 have still attractions left for the naturalist, as will be manifest from the 

 remarkable new form which I now proceed to describe. 



^ See Journ. fiir Ornitli. 1860, pp. 321, 401 ; 1861, pp. 1, 81, 241. 



t See Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, ]868, p. 86. 



t SeeP.Z.S. 1869, p. 416. 

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