. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution: pt. 1 . Birds. 394 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIEDS. [part I. have a line of feathers of the same colour as in the other species. The bill is stout and deep, aud the culmen much curved. Smith- soniaa No. Collec- tor's No. Sex and Age. Locality. When Collected. Received from Collected by 278a Eabahoyo, Ecuad. Cab. P. L. Sclater. Fraser. (27Sa,) Cyclorhie nigrirostris. Cyclorhis nigrirostris. Cyclaris n. Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1842, 133 (Colombia).—Ib. Mag. de Zool. 1843, pi. 33.—Cyclorls n. Bon. Consp. 1850, SSO.—Cyclorhis nig. S
. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution: pt. 1 . Birds. 394 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIEDS. [part I. have a line of feathers of the same colour as in the other species. The bill is stout and deep, aud the culmen much curved. Smith- soniaa No. Collec- tor's No. Sex and Age. Locality. When Collected. Received from Collected by 278a Eabahoyo, Ecuad. Cab. P. L. Sclater. Fraser. (27Sa,) Cyclorhie nigrirostris. Cyclorhis nigrirostris. Cyclaris n. Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1842, 133 (Colombia).—Ib. Mag. de Zool. 1843, pi. 33.—Cyclorls n. Bon. Consp. 1850, SSO.—Cyclorhis nig. ScLATEE, P. Z. S. 1855, 151; 1858, 448.—Ib. Catal. 1861, 46, no. 280 (Bogota). Sab, Bogota. (No. 279a.) Above olive green, with a short stripe from each nostril (not confluent anteriorly) of dark orange brown, extending over and bejond the eye, for a considerably less distance than anterior to it. A frontal band (ex- tending faintly along side of vertex), lores, cheeks below, and a little behind the eye, chin, and most of the throat and breast ashy, paler below, and passing behind into soiled buffy gray. Sides of neck and the ears, continued into a narrow, almost interrupted band across the upper part of jugulum, the sides of breast, and more faintly the flanks, olive green, but little paler than the hack. Inner wing coverts, axillars, and inner edges of quills yellow. Bill entirely blackish, except at base of lower mandible, where it appears to be flesh color. Legs quite pale, though hardly flesh color. The hill is lower and the oulmen straighter than in other species, and has the exclusive character of black maxilla. The first quill is less than half the longest; the 2d less than the 10th ; the 3d about equal to the 8th ; the 4th and 5th longest. (No. 279a.) Total length, ; wing, ; tail, ; exposed portion of 1st primary, , of 2d, , of longest (4th and 5th) (measured from ex- posed base of 1st primary), ; length of bill from forehead, .75, fro
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