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Mr. O. Salving Visit to the 
America—one in the collection of the Smithsonian Institu¬ 
tion, and one in that of Yassar College, Poughkeepsie. The 
former is labelled as having been obtained at Esmeraldas, 
Ecuador; the latter was collected by Professor Orton at 
Chillo, in the Valley of Quito, on the western slope of the 
volcano of Antisana, at an elevation of about 10,000 feet 
above the sea. 
Chlorospingus axillaris, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. x. p. 395 
(1874). 
The type of this species is quite a young bird, and is, I 
have no doubt, a young male of Tachyphonus nitidissimus, 
Salv., a few black feathers of the adult dress showing amongst 
the general green plumage of the young bird. 
Chlorospingus brunneus, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. x. p. 395 
(1874). 
Through Mr. Lawrence’s kindness I have carefully ex¬ 
amined the type of this species, and find that it agrees per¬ 
fectly with a specimen in Mr. Lawrence’s collection ascribed 
to the female of Tachyphonus delattrii. This latter deter¬ 
mination is, I have no doubt, correct, and the bird figured 
in r Exotic Ornithology’ (t. 34) as the female of T. delattrii 
belongs to some other species. This skin was obtained by 
Eraser, and is that of a young bird, the proper determination 
of which I am not at present able to decide. 
Buarremon assimilis (Boiss.) ? 
I carefully examined the specimen attributed with doubt to 
this species by Mr. Lawrence in his list of Costa-Eica birds 
(Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix.p.101), and found the differences between 
it and a New-Granadan skin to be extremely slight. The 
feathers round the bill are rubbed and wanting, giving the bill 
the appearance of being larger than that of the southern B. 
assimilis, it being in reality of hardly larger dimensions. The 
difference in the colour of the cheeks is due to the form of 
the skin, the feathers being more compactly set. I think the 
query may be removed and the species called B. assimilis. 
Arremon rufodorsalis, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1865, p. 170. 
It has surprised me that no other specimens of this bird 
