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4. Peucwa notosticta. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 1.) 
Peucea notosticta, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. 8S. 1868, p. 322". 
Supra fuscescente-cinerea, interscapulio et alarum tectricibus distincte nigro striatis ; pileo medio cinereo, utrin- 
que rufescente-brunneo nigro striato; superciliis et oculorum ambitu albis; alis et cauda nigricante- 
cinereis, plumarum marginibus dilutioribus, secundariis extus brunescente limbatis; subtus alba cinereo, 
preecipue in pectore et lateribus lavata; ventre medio et crisso dilute cinnamomeis ; striga mentali utrinque 
nigricante ; rostro nigro, pedibus flavicantibus. Long. tota 6°5, ale 2°7, caude 3, rostri a rictu 0°5, 
tarsi 0°7. (Descr. exempl. ex Mexico merid. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico (Boucard), Oaxaca (Boucard 1). 
This species was described from a single specimen obtained in Southern Mexico, 
probably in the State of Puebla, by M. Boucard, but the exact locality where it was 
shot is not stated on the label. 
Though allied to P. boucardi it is certainly distinct; the rufous-brown sides of the 
crown are clearly marked with black, and there is a definite median streak ; the middle 
of the back, too, is much more clearly striped, and the bill is wholly black, though this 
may be a seasonal character. 
In Mr. Sclater’s collection, now in the British Museum, there is a second specimen 
of this species, but in more immature plumage. The crown is uniformly rufous without 
the black lateral streaks and the median stripe, and the general tint of the plumage 
above is more rufescent. In spite of these differences we do not hesitate to consider 
this bird to be a young example of P. notosticta. 
HAMOPHILA. 
Aimophila, Swainson, Anim. in Menag. p. 113. 
We know of nine normal species of Hemophila. A tenth has been recently described 
by Mr. Sclater as H. pulchra (Ibis, 1886, p. 258, t. 8) from Western Peru; but this 
has evidently some aberrant characters, one of the most obvious being the white lateral 
tail-feathers. 
Of the nine species only one (H. stolzmanni) occurs beyond our limits in Western 
Peru. Of the other eight, six are purely Mexican, one reaches Guatemala, and one is 
found from Guatemala to Costa Rica. 
In their range the species of Haemophila enjoy considerable diversity, so far as 
altitude is concerned—Z. rufescens being found in the mountains as high as 8000 feet 
and as low as 1500, and ZH. rujficauda between 2000 feet and the sea-level. ‘The species 
with which we are acquainted are inhabitants of scrubby forest and brushwood, and 
are not found in the denser and more lofty tropical forest. 
Hemophila rufescens has a stout bill, the culmen slightly arched and produced back- 
wards towards the forehead ; the tomia is angulated and slightly undulating anteriorly ; 
the nostrils are at the lower anterior end of the nasal fossa, and are bordered above by 
a membrane; below the nostril the maxilla is slightly tumid. The wings are short 
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