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tail-coverts of a bright rust-colour. Lores with light bases 

 to the feathers. Whole under surface, including the under 

 wing-coverts, rufous ochraceous ; on either side of the throat 

 a dark shaded line, the feathers between this line and 

 the mandible whitish; sides of breast and abdomen with a 

 dark brown suffusion. Iris light brown, feet slaty grey; 

 upper mandible black, lower whitish. Wing 107, tail 45, 

 metatarsus 48, bill 30 mm. 



? ad. Paramba, North Ecuador, 3500 feet. 



Collected by Mr. G. Flemming, one of Mr. Rosenberg's 

 correspondents. 



This bird apparently has no near ally among the recorded 

 species of the genus. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert exhibited some new South-American 

 birds, which he described as follows : — 



Dacnis berlepschi, n. sp. 



$ . General colour above brown (somewhat of a dark 

 sepia-brown), brighter on the rump, and with an ashy grey 

 tinge on the forehead. Remiges deep brown, edged with 

 the colour of the back and inwardly lined with whitish grey ; 

 tail dark brown; throat and jugulum light brown ; breast 

 glossy fiery-red, paler in the centre of the abdomen, which 

 is pale brown with an orange tinge ; sides of abdomen 

 rusty brown ; under tail-coverts rusty buff, under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries cream-colour. " Iris yellow, feet dark 

 grey, bill blackish." Wing 61, tail 42, metatarsus 15, 

 bill 12 mm. 



Hab. Lita, North-western Ecuador, October 1899. 



It is impossible to say whether this specimen is in full 

 nuptial plumage or not. 



This magnificent bird is named in honour of my friend 

 Count Hans von Berlepsch, who has examined the type, and 

 agrees with me that the species is hitherto quite unknown. 



Grallaricula cumanensis, n. sp. 



<£ $ ad. Lores, sides of head, throat, wide breast-band ? 



