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Descriptions of New Species of Birds of the Families CJEBEBIDJE, TAN- 

 AGRID.E, ICTERID.E, and SCOLOPACID.E. 



BY GEO. N. LAWRENCE. 



Fam. CjEREBIDJE. 

 Dacnis ultramarina. 



D cserebicolor, Lawr. nee. Scl., Ann., N. Y. Lye. Vol. vii., p. 291. 



Male. General color ultramarine blue, lores, chin, throat, middle of back, 

 wings and tail black ; the black on the throat dull in color ; the wing coverts, 

 quills and central tail feathers margined with ultramarine blue ; bill black, 

 the base of the under mandible below flesh color ; iris brown ; tarsi and toes 

 reddish yellow. 



Length 4| in.; wing 2|; tail 1| ; bill ; tarsi 9-16. 



The female is yellowish green, with the front, part of the crown and sides 

 of the head bluish ; throat ashy; the under plumage lighter green, the middle 

 of the abdomen yellowish. 



Habitat. New Granada, Isthmus of Panama. 



In distribution of colors this species closely resembles cserebicolor Scl., 

 and cayana ; it is, however, lighter in color than the first, and darker than the 

 last; it differs from both in the black not extending behind the eye, in the 

 dull color of the black spot on the throat, which in the others is of a deep 

 black and more clearly defined ; cserebicolor is purple blue, and cayana 

 greenish or verditer blue. 



Fam. TANAGRIDJE. 

 Saltator intermedius. 



S. mag mis, Lawr. nee. Gm., Ann., N. Y. Lye. Vol. vii. p. 297. 



Male. Upper plumage yellowish olive green ; the front and top of the 

 head intermixed with bluish cinereous ; a white stripe from the bill over the 

 eye ; sides of the head bluish cinereous ; tail of the same color as the upper 

 plumage; quills brownish black, the outer webs same color as the back; 

 chiu white ; on the throat is a tawny or'fulvous spot entirely surrounded by 

 a narrow band of black, which runs down on each side of the throat and 

 assumes a rounding form on the upper part of the breast ; breast and abdo- 

 men cinereous tinged with pale tawny ; under tail coverts bright fulvous ; 

 bill black ; iris brown ; legs reddish brown. 



Length 8 in. ; wing 4 ; tail 4; bill f ; tarsi 1. 



The femtile differs only in the black not extending across the breast below 

 the fulvous spot. 



Habitat. New Granada, Isthmus of Panama. 



At the time of referring this species to S. magnus, I had but a single exam- 

 ple, a female, which much resembles that species, and I. would not have 

 inclined to separate them, but since then receiving other specimens of both 

 sexes, and finding the fulvous spot on the throat of the male to be encircled 

 with black, as in <S. magnoides, I have not hesitated to pronounce it a distinct 

 species. It differs from magnus in the fulvous spot not only being brighter 

 and deeper in color, but of three times the extent ; in having a black band 

 on the breast, and in the color of the under tail coverts being much darker, 

 more rufous. From magnoides it differs in the head above being mixed with 

 olive green, in the white on the chin extending to the bill, whereas, in mag- 

 noides the black lines on the sides of the throat come together on the chin ; 

 the fulvous on the throat is not quite so bright, but is of twice the extent of 

 that of magnoides, and the black band on the breast of only about one-third 

 the breadth of it in that species ; the breast of magnoides is of a clear cine- 

 reous and the crissum lighter than in the new bird. 



In color and markings it seems to be intermediate between magnus and 

 magnoides, the crissum, however, in my species is darker than in either of the 

 others. 



[April, 



