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flanks. These points of distinction are not difficult to recognize ; and as they appear to 

 be strictly associated with a definite area, the use of a distinct name for the bird seems 

 to be justified. The best accounts of Harporhynchus longirostris are those given by 

 Dr. Merrill ^ and Mr. Sennett ^'^, who both observed it in considerable numbers on the 

 Texan side of the valley of the Eio Grande, where it is a resident bird. The habits of 

 the species are fully described by these authors in their respective papers. 



Several years before Lafresnaye described the bird ^ Deppe met with it at Jalapa ; and 

 his specimens are still in the Berlin Museum. Most of the more recent collectors have 

 since met with it in the same district ; and Prof. Sumichrast ^ says that it is quite common 

 in the temperate region in the vicinity of Orizaba, ranging from an elevation of 3300 

 feet to 6600 feet above the sea. We have no record of the occurrence of the bird in 

 any part of Western Mexico ; and its range seems to be strictly confined to the eastern 

 part of the country, from the valley of the Rio Grande on the north to the State of Vera 

 Cruz on the south, 



2. Harporhynchus ocellatus. 



Harporhynchus ocellatus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 18, t. iii.^ 



Supra fusco-cinereus ; alarum tectricibuB albo terminatis ; caudte rectricibus, prseter quatuor medias, albo stricte 

 terminatis ; subtus albus, pectore et bypocbondriis maoulis rotuudatis nigris conspicue notatis ; gula et 

 abdomine medio immaculatis ; hypochondriis et capitis lateribus paulo rufescenti tinctis ; rostro nigro, 

 pedibus corylinis. Long, tota 11-5, alee 4-1, caudae 5-5, rostri a riotu 1-5, tarsi 1-5. (Descr. maris ex 

 Oaxaea, Mexico merid. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. Mexico, Oaxaea {Boucard ^, Fenochio). 



Of this species hardly any thing is known. It was described from a single male spe- 

 cimen sent by M. Boucard from the neighbourhood of Oaxaea ; and from the same dis- 

 trict we have received another bird of the same sex from Don A. Fenochio. No account 

 has reached us of its habits. The species is a well-marked one, as Mr. Sclater says i, the 

 large round black spots on the clear white under surface rendering it easily distino-uish- 

 able from every known member of the group. 



3. Harporhynchus curvirostris. 



Orpheus curvirostris, Swains. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 369 \ 



Toseostoma curvirostre, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 212^ 



Harporhynchus curvirostris, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 370' ; Baird, Rev. A.m. B. p. 45 *; Sumichrast, 



Mem. Boat. Soc. N. H. i. p. 543 = ; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 267°; Lawr. Bull! 



U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 4, p. 12'; Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 4'; Merrill, Pr. U. s! 



Nat. Mus. i. p. 119". 

 Thrdus deflexus, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vog., cf. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 57"; 

 Pomatarhinus turdinus, Temm. PL Col. 441 ". 

 Tossostoma vetula, Wagl. Isis, 1831, p. 528 ". 



