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marked with pencilings of pinkish red and scattered spots of the same colour; these 

 markings are much blended and concentrated at the larger end, 



H. aglaice is included in the birds of North America as an inhabitant of the Eio 

 Grande Valley, but it has not yet, so far as we know, occurred north of the river. The 

 western form, H. albiventris, is found in Southern Arizona ^^. 



2. Hadrostomus homochrous. 



Hadrostomus homochrous, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 142'; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 334 ^ 

 Hadrostomus homochrous ?, Bidgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. y. p. 397 '. 

 Pachyrhamphus homochrous, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 473 *. 



Supra niger ; capite summo saturatiore ; scapularibus ad basin albis ; subtus cinereis ; rostro et pedibus nigri- 

 cantibus. Long, tota 7"0, alse 3-5, caudse 2-6, rostri a rictu 1-0, tarsi 0-85. (Descr. maris ex Ecuador. 

 Mus. nostr.) 



2 supra cinnamomea fere uriicolor ; subtus multo pallidior. (Descr. feminsB ex Lion Hill, Panama. Mus. 

 nostr.) 



Hob. Costa Eica {%), La Palma [Nutting ^) ; Panama, Lion Hill (M'Leannan). — South 

 Ameeica, from Colombia to Peru. 



This species very closely resembles examples of E. aglaice in which the rosy patch 

 on the throat is not developed, a character which is never seen in southern specimens, 

 but it is evanescent in examples from Nicaragua. 



Its southern range extends to Peru, and it is apparently common in Western 

 Ecuador i. Its range northward of the Isthmus of Panama is a little doubtful, and rests, 

 so far as Costa Eica is concerned, on a female specimen obtained by Mr. Nutting at 

 La Palma ^- We have no examples from Chiriqui, but a female from the Isthmus of 

 Panama agrees best with others from Western Ecuador. Salmon described the nest 

 and eggs of a bird referred to H. homochrous, but his description differs so widely 

 from that of the nest and eggs of the allied H. aglaice sent us by Mr. Owen, about 

 which we have not the smallest doubt, that we think Salmon wrongly identified the 

 nest he found. 



PACHYEHAMPHUS. 



Pachyrhynchus, Spix., Av. Bras. ii. p. 31 (1825). 



Pachyrhamphus, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 31 (1840) ; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 337. 



Of the fourteen species included in this genus, six occur within our limits, the most 

 northern of which, P. major, extends its range to the middle of the Mexican State of 

 Tamaulipas. The genus is strictly a neotropical one, and spreads over South America 

 as far as the Argentine Eepublic. 



As compared with Hadrostomus, the species of Pachyrhamphus are smaller and more 

 slender birds, usually with more mottled plumage, longer wings, and rounder tails, and 

 a wide difference in the coloration of the sexes ; but P. cinnamomeus and P. rufus are 



