JS'liic S2)ecies of JJinls from Jle-rico. iTo 



the first of March and were about to breed. They were commonly seen 

 probin.y for food in the clay mud on the fiats and all the specimens 

 killed had their feet and bills (to the angle t)f the gape) coated with 

 dried mud. 



. Merula plebeia differens new subspecies. Forest Kobin. 



Type Xo. 142,532, $ ad., U. S. National Museum, IJiological Survey 

 collection, from Pinabete, Chiapas, Me.xico. Collected February 8, 

 189(5, by K. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman. 



Distribution. — Known only from type locality in southern Chiapas. 



Stifhsperifr rhdi'arter.s. — Entire upperparts including head, wings and 

 tail decidedly browner than in M. plebcin; lower parts more uniform and 

 darker brown; throat uniform with breast with scarcely a trace of dark 

 streaks: feet and bill darker than in J/, plebcin. 



BimenKions of type. — Wing 141; tail 10;); culmen 23: tarsus :!."). 



JiciiKO'h:^. — Seen only in the heavy forest above ToOO feet. 



