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description does not altogether suit the bird now under consideration. Moreover, the 
true H. ruficauda does not, we believe, occur in Mexico, whence v. Miiller’s bird is 
stated to have come. This statement, however, is not of much value, as v. Miiller’s 
catalogue contains names of many birds certainly not Mexican. 
5. Hemophila lawrencii, sp. n. 
Hemophila ruficauda, Lawr. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 227 (nec Bonaparte). 
A. ruficaude similis, sed striis capitis albis haud flavido tinctis, striis nigris haud rufo intermixtis, tectricibus 
auricularibus pure nigris et dorso minus guttato distinguenda. (Descr. exempl. ex Juchitan, Mexico. 
Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Juchitan, near Tehuantepec (Swmichrast }). 
We have a specimen of this Hemophila obtained from Sumichrast through M. 
Boucard, named “ H. ruficauda,” and therefore, as we suppose, the bird so called in 
Mr. Lawrence’s list of Tehuantepec birds}. For some time we had placed it with 
H. melanotis, Lawr., but its well-defined ashy breast, as well as the spots of the back 
being more restricted in extent, suggest its distinction from that species. They both 
have the stripes of the head pure black and white, and thus differ from the more 
southern H. ruficauda. 
6. Hemophila acuminata. 
Zonotrichia melanotis, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. viii. p. 473"; Pr. Ac. Phil. 1868, p. 430 *. 
Aimophila melanotis, Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 277°. 
Hemophila melanotis, Salv. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 422 * 
Fringilla acuminata, Licht. 
H, ruficaude quoque similis, longitudine alarum minore, pectore albicantiore, dorso magis striato et capitis 
striis albis et nigris differt. Ab H. lawrencii quoque longitudine alarum minore, dorso mnagis striato, et 
pectore haud cinereo discrepat. Long. tota 6°5, alee 2°65, caudee 3:1. 
Hab. Muxico, Yuantepec (Deppe), plains of Colima (Xantus 8), Acapulco (A. H. Mark- 
ham*), between Puebla and Chiatla (Rébouch). 
We are not quite sure if this bird should be referred to Mr. Lawrence’s H. melanotis, 
which is said to have a wing three inches long, but which agrees in other respects. 
The only bird it can be confounded with is H. lawrencii, and this has a well-defined 
cinereous breast, and the spots of the back restricted to the interscapular region. The 
latter bird, too, seems to have been referred by Mr. Lawrence to H. ruficauda, rendering 
it more than probable that the present species is the true H. melanotis. 
The bird originally obtained by Xantus at Colima was referred to Zonotrichia, but it 
clearly is a Haemophila, as Mr. Lawrence subsequently discovered. It with H. rufi- 
cauda and H. lawrencii form a small section of the genus, distinguished inter alia by 
the white vertical streak. 
Of the habits of this species Xantus says nothing. 
