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latis: rostro clare fulvo; digitis nudis, carneis, unguibus nigris. Long. tota circa 16:0, ale 12°5, 
caude 73, tarsi 2°2. (Descr. exempl. ex Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Guatemata (Constancia*), near Antigua Guatemala (Constancia®), Cahabon 
(Skinner 12), Duefias, Volcan de Fuego (0. 8. & F. D. G.), Volcan de Tacana 
(W. B. Richardson). | 
Guatemala specimens of this Syrniwm in our collection were first described in 1868, 
but examples had long previously been sent to Europe from that country. ae 
the specimen in the Norwich Museum from Cahabon mentioned in the first list ue 
Guatemala birds}, one was sent to Strickland by Constancia from the same country in 
1845, and is now in the Cambridge Museum’. It is nowhere abundant in Guatemala, 
though examples were brought in from time to time during our stay there, mostly from 
the wooded slopes of the Volcan de Fuego, from altitudes between 7000 and 8000 feet 
above the sea. The last specimen that reached us was from Mr. Richardson, who shot 
it on the Volcan de Tacana, just on the frontier of the Mexican State of Chiapas. 
The bird no doubt occurs in that State, but not perhaps beyond the Isthmus of 
Tehuantepec *. 
S. fulvescens can readily be distinguished from its northern allies, S. sartorit and 
S. nebulosum, by its smaller size and by the rich tawny-brown tint of its plumage, and 
by the toes being naked except just at the base. As a species it seems quite distinct, 
though treated asa subspecies by some American authors®. We have never seen a bird 
showing a trace of intermediate characters between it and S. sartorit. 
The iris in life is dark and the toes yellow. 
3, Syrnium occidentale. 
Syrnium occidentale, Xantus, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1859, p. 193°; Baird, Birds N. Am., Atl. p. v, t. 66°; 
Ridgw. in Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. Birds, iii. p. 838°; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
ii. p. 260‘; Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, i. p. 343°; Fisher, Bull. U.S. Dep. Agr. 
no. 3, p. 156°. 
Supra fusco-brunneum, albo fasciatum et maculatum ; facie griseo-albida, indistincte fusco fasciata: subtus 
fusco-brunneum, undique albo fasciatum et guttatum ; plumis abdominis singulis maculis magnis tribus 
utrinque albis ad rhachidem approximantibus, haud attingentibus ; alis fuscis, sordide albo fasciatis; cauda 
fusca, septies albido anguste transfasciata; digitis plumosis. Long. tota circa 16:5, ale 12:0, caude 8-0, 
tarsi 2-2. (Descr. maris ex “ Big Trees,” California. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Nortn America, California!?, New Mexico, Arizona®, &c.—MeExico (Mus. 
Brit.*), Guanajuato (fide Bendire °). 
Syrnium occidentale can be readily distinguished from §. nebulosum and its allies 
by the lower part of the under surface being barred transversely instead of longitu- 
* A specimen in the Norwich Museum is said to be from Mexico. It was obtained from Gould, who most 
likely received it from Skinner, and therefore from Guatemala. 
