Mr. P. L. Sclater on new Mexican Birds, 421. 



cum crisso rosaceo-coccineis : lateribus postice alhis : alls cauda- 

 que nigricantibus, plumbeo extus marginatis : rostro crasso, pau- 

 lulum incurvo, nigricanti-plumbeo ; vibrissis fere nullis : pedibus 

 pallide brunneis. 

 Long, tota 5*2, alae 2-4, caudse 2-3. 

 Salle, no. 129. Cordova. 



This very pretty bird, of which M. Salle only procured a single 

 specimen, is, I think, upon reconsideration hardly to be placed in the 

 genus Setophagay although so closely resembling many species of 

 that genus in its style of colouring. The bill is quite different from 

 that of Setophaga, and is more like that of Nemosia, being even 

 thicker than in some species of the latter form, but rather more in- 

 curved. The characters given by Prince Bonaparte for his genus 

 Granatellus (founded upon a bird figured in an unpublished plate of 

 DuBus' Esquisses Ornithologiques) seem to agree better with this 

 bird, and from the description of the only species of that genus 

 (which I have never seen) I cannot help thinking that it may have 

 something to do with the present bird. I therefore place them for 

 the present in the same genus. 



9. PaRUS MERIDIONALIS. 



Supra cinereus : alls caudaque nigricantibus brunnescenti-cinereo 

 limbatis : pileo toto cum nucha, gutture et cervice antica nigerri- 

 mis : genis et capite laterali albis : abdomine cinereo brunnescente 

 tincto ; pectore et ventre medio albidis : rostro nigro : pedibus 

 plumbeis. 



Long, tota 4*8, alse 2 '65, caudse 2-3. 



Salle, no. 167. ElJacale. 



This Titmouse is a very close ally of P«rw5 atricapillus and Parus 

 carolinensis. I am sorry I have not been able to compare it with 

 authentic specimens of those species, but, as far as I can judge from 

 Mr. Cassin's excellent synopsis of American Parinse given in his 

 * Birds of California,' it would appear — as by the locality it comes 

 from would seem most probable — to be distinct from either of those 

 species. 



From P. ca7'olinensis it appears to differ in its greater size, being 

 nearly half an inch longer than the dimensions assigned to that bird 

 by Mr. Cassin. It would hardly seem likely that it is the same as 

 P. atricapillus, which is an inhabitant of the more northern states 

 of the Union, and the slightly inferior size and white medial line 

 on the lower parts seem to distinguish it from that species. 



10. FORMICARIUS MONILIGER. 



Supra brunnescenti-olivaceus, colli lateribus et uropygio rufescen- 

 tioribus, pileo nigricantiore : macula in loris triangulari alba : 

 gutture toto nigro, infra vitta angusta rufa cincta : abdomine toto 

 nigricanti-griseo, lateribus et crisso olivaceo perfusis : regione 

 oculari nuda: teciricibus subalaribus ochraceis, nigro variegatis : 

 Cauda parte apicali nigra : rostro nigro : pedibus clqre brunneis. 



Salld, no. 105, J et 9 similes. Cordova. 



