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Mr. O. Salving Visit to the 
2 mare vix minor: capite toto quam dorsum paulo ob- 
scuriore, nucha rubra : abdominis plumis (recenter acquisitis) 
viridescentioribus : long. tot. circ. 6*7, alse 4*3, caudse 2*6, 
rostri a rictu 095, tarsi 0*7. 
Hah. Chiriqui et Costa Rica in prov. Talamanca. 
Ohs. C. calloptero, Lawr., affinis sed stria flava infra oculos 
absente, et gula oleaginea nee pallide viridescenti-fulva facile 
distinguendus. 
Syrnium lineatum, Lawr. Ann.Lye.N. Y. vii. p.462 (1862). 
The species known as Ciccaha virgata (Cass.) varies greatly 
in the markings of its plumage; but the tail, being banded with 
white, always exhibits a character by which the species may 
be distinguished from its more southern allies. Syrnium 
lineatum shows perhaps extremes of body-coloration, but is 
not, I think, to be separated specifically from C. virgata . 
American Museum of Natural History , Central Park , 
New York. 
Such of the contents of this rapidly growing museum as I 
wished to examine, were kindly shown me by Mr. Albert J. 
Bickmore. 
At present the, to me, most interesting portion of the birds 
is the late Prince Maximilian of Neuwied^s collection, which 
was purchased some years ago, and is now exhibited in a tem¬ 
porary building in the Central Park. A new museum is in 
course of construction, which promises to be capable of hold¬ 
ing and worthily exhibiting this and many more interesting 
collections. 
Cham^epetes goudoti (Lesson). 
A typical specimen of Tschudf’s Penelope rufivevitris is in¬ 
cluded in Prince Max/s series, a species about which many 
doubts have hung. It belongs most certainly to LessoAs 
Ortalida goudoti, described from specimens obtained by Gou- 
dot in the Quindiu Mountains of New Granada, whence we 
have recently received examples from Mr. T. K. Salmon. 
The bird also occurs in Ecuador, where Fraser obtained it, 
and whence we have also an example. Specimens from Bogota 
