-"" List of a Colled 'not of Birds 



Male. Fnmt, sides of t he Lead and throat of a brownish 

 fawn-color; chin whitish; crown tinged with bine; neck, 

 breast, abdomen and under tail coverts of a line brownish 

 cinnamon, a Blight purplish tinge on the breast, the abdomen 

 a little reader, and the under tail coverts rather lighter in 

 color : sides and under coloring of the wings clear grayish-blue ; 

 upper plumage brownish-olive, with an ochreous tinge, brighter 

 on the smaller wing coverts and rump; the metallic color on 

 the 6ides of the neck is reddish-violet; the auricular spot is 

 deep prussian-blue ; the central tail feathers are the same color 

 as the back, with an interrupted blackish bar about an inch 

 from the end ; the other feathers are bluish cinereous at base, 

 each with a black snbterminal bar; the three pairs next the cen- 

 tral have their ends bluish cinerons; in the three outer pairs, the 

 ends are white with a slight cinereous tinge; the primaries are 

 blackish-brown, narrowly margined with white ; the secondaries 

 ami larger wing coverts blackish cinereous of a bluish cast, the 

 former have their outer webs more or less black next the mar- 

 gins, and their ends conspicuously white ; the tertiaries and 

 BCapulars are blotched with black; bill black; tarsi and toes 

 yellowish flesh-color in the dried ^taie. 



Length (skin) 11] in.; wing, <! ; tail, 4j ; bill, £ ; tarsi, '■';. 



Habitat. Merida. Collected by Dr. A. Schott, April 3d, 1865. 



Type in Mu-. Smithsonian Institution, No. 39,325. 



The distinctness of this Bpecies from Z. carolinensis is appar- 

 ent at first Bighl ; in their upper coloring they are much alike, 

 hut entirely different in the coloring of the under plumage, 



which is uniform in the new species, with none .if the pale 



ochreous prevailing on the abdomen ami under tail coverts of 

 oa/rolinensis , the auricular spot is dark blue instead of black, 



and the metallic color mi the neck without any tinge of gold- 

 en J the central tail feathers are not pointed, retaining their 

 width nearly to the end, ami their coloring is similar to the 



back, not darker as in ca/rolineth8is y it also differs in the ends 



ondaries being conspicuously white. 



