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phorus from Veragua_, two specimens of which^ througli M. 
Boucard^s kindness^ we have been able to add to our collec¬ 
tion. They were received by him direct from Veragua a few 
weeks ago. I propose to call the bird^ from its grey chesty 
4- Odontophorus spodiostethus^ sp. n. 
Pileo rnfescenti-brunneo^ collo postico et dorso antico eodem 
colore^ plumis singulis medialiter cinerascentibus j dorso 
postico_, cum tectricibus supracaudalibus^ nigro_, fulvo 
et cinereo minutissime irroratis; primariis fusco-nigris, 
secundariis fulvo irregulariter transfasciatis et vermicu- 
latis ; alarum tectricibus maculis magnis nigris notatis et 
fulvescenti-albo vermiculatis ; fronte et capitis lateribus 
cum mento Isete rufis, tectricibus auricularibus fusco- 
brunneis j pectore toto cinereo ; ventre medio cervino ; 
hypochondriis fuscis obscure fulvo vermiculatis; ventre 
imo et crisso nigro irregulariter transfasciatis; rostro 
nigro; pedibus corylinis : long, tota cir. 7*5, alse 4*2, 
caudae 1*7, tarsi 1*3^ rostri a rictu *7. 
Hah. Veragua. 
Mus. nostr. 
This species has no near relative that I am acquainted with^ 
but agrees in dimensions with the bird recently described by 
me (Ibis^ 1876^ p. 379) as Odontophorus cinctus, which Mr. 
Bowley has figured in his ^Ornithological Miscellany’ (iii. 
p. 39^ pi. Ixxxvi.). In coloration_, however^ it differs widely_, 
the forehead and sides of the head being bright rufous^ the 
chest cinereous^ instead of rufous^ and the belly buflp^ instead 
of white. Moreover the well-defined black crescentic marks 
of the flanks in 0. cinctus are absent in this species. The 
second specimen of O. spodiostethus is evidently in immature 
plumage. It has_, however^, all the characteristics of the adult, 
the colouring of the sides of the head being less clearly 
defined. 
Some few years ago Mr. Godman and I obtained from Mr. 
Gould by exchange a Pigeon, which I took at the time to be a 
specimen of the little-known species Osculatia sapphirma, Bp., 
the type of which graces the gallery of the Paris Museum. 
This original specimen, according to Prince Bonaparte, who 
described it (Consp. ii. p. 73, and Compt. Bend. xl. p. 101), 
