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Title: Ornithological miscellany
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Rowley, George Dawson, 1822-1878 Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912, ill Walther, T., lithographer Allen, Edgar W., lithographer Smith, J., lithographer Erxleben, J., lithographer Hanhart, Michael, printer of plates Hanhart, N, printer of plates Chase, Robert William, former owner. DSI Mackintosh, Duncan Robert, former owner. DSI Mintern Bros., printer of plates
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Trübner and Co., Bernard Quaritch, R.H. Porter
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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f that place;none that I can find, however, marks Agua Dulce. Mr. Boucard informs me that this species is found on the hills near thesea, in tropical forests, and is scarce. Small numbers of both sexes are seentogether, always on the ground, feeding principally on worms, insects, andlarvffi, perhaps also seeds. They run very quickly when frightened, andsometimes fly, but not more than a few feet above the ground, making a ODONTOPHORUS CINCTUS. 41 great noise with their wings, hke Snipes; but they cannot stay long inthe air. It is only by accident that they are discovered, as they always keep indense and dark forests. The eggs are laid upon the ground; but Mr.Boucard did not find any. The flesh of these birds is splendid, solid andwhite, capital to eat. This skin was not sent by Arce. It is hard work hunting forspecimens, as at Agua Dulce the forests are magnificent, the country quitetropical, and the heat excessive. Total length about 7 inches. VOL. III. ORNITHOLOGICAL ¥TSCELLA>rf
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.^GKexilemans lith. Ha-nhai-t luip. GEOTRYGON CCSlTARICENSiS, iLaMTence^.J GEOTRYGON COSTARICENSIS (Lawrence). By Mr. G. D. ROWLEY. (Plate LXXXVII.) In A Catalogue of the Birds found in Costa Rica, by George N. Lawrence,p. 136 (reprinted from the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History inNew York, vol. ix. April 1868), we find :— 451. GeOTRYGON COSTARICENSIS, II. Sp. Forehead and the forward part of the cheek next the bill of a brownishsalmon-colour; cheeks and throat white; there is a bar of deep black oneach side from the eye to the bill; and a stripe of the same colour extendsfrom the upper part of the throat along each side of the neck, and bordersthe white cheeks; these black lines approach each other quite closely on thethroat; across the middle of the crown and adjoining the salmon-colouredfront is a narrow band of greyish blue, which gradually merges into the darkgreen of the occiput and hind neck; the lower part and sides of the hindneck, and the upper part of the back, are

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