202 List of a Collection of Birds 



17. Contopm schottii, sp. nov. 



Plumage above of a light olivaceous-brown with awash of 

 dull rufous, rather darker on the head; tail liver-brown with 

 reddish-brown shafts : wing coverts and quills dark liver-brown; 

 the middle and larger coverts, the secondaries and ternaries 

 margined with dull grayish-white ; under wing coverts <lull 

 pale ochreous; chin and upper part of throat dull yellowish- 

 gray; neck, breast and Bides of a brownish ochreous, the mid- 

 dle of the abdomen and under tail coverts light ochre. us wl- 

 low; upper mandible black, the lower yellowish white ; feet 

 black. 



S ond and third quills equal ami longest, fifth a little long- 

 er than the first. 



Length (skin) 5| in. ; wing 2|-| ; tail 2| ; bill ^ ; tarsi \. 



Habitat. -M srida, collected by Dr. A. Schott, Feb. 21st, 1865. 



Type iu Museum Smithsonian [nst., No. 37,965. 



This resembles my 0. lugvhris from Costa Rica, in its dull 

 dark coloring, but it is much smaller ; the color above is quite 

 different, being reddish brown in place of dark olive-brown, 

 and the throat ami breast are dull ochreous instead of olive- 

 brown; the bill is much smaller than that of lugvibris. 



[ have conferred upon this species the name of Dr. Arthur 

 Schott, the energetic naturalist of the Commission. 



t8. Myiarckus coop* ri I Kaup). 

 r.i. " rru xicanus i A '</'//>). 



The two 8] imens before me are quite distinct from my .'/. 



cinerascens {Ann. /.//<•., V. }'.. vol. '•., /'. 121), which is re- 

 ferred by Prof. Baird (Paoif. /.'. /.'. Rep., vol. w;., p. 179) to .'/. 

 icatius, Kaiip. 'Kaup's description {Proo. Zool. Soc, /.<>/<- 

 don t l s .M.y. 51) is short and unsatisfactory. ELesays: "With 

 Bhorl wings; all the wing-feathers, except the first, with rufoue 

 margins; breast light ash-gray ; above lighter." 



K in p's character of short wings, applies to the Yucatan ape 



