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spotted with scarlet as in that form; ditlers in bein;^' much more greenish, less 

 brownish throughout; throat greenish white instead of fulvous ; sides of 

 breast and back much greener, less brown, striping of belly less well marked, 

 the dusky stripes paler in color and much less distinct. 



Color. — Adult $ , type, pileum black with small, round white spots on 

 occiput, and brilliant orange-scarlet tips to the feathers of crown and forehead, 

 back dull olive-green without l)rownish tinge ; wings dusky, the lesser coverts 

 edged like back ; secondaries and tertials edged with rather paler, more yel- 

 lowish green ; central upper-tail coverts yellowish ; tail black, the inner wel)s 

 of central rectrices yellowisli wliite and the two outer pairs much marked with 

 the same color; lining of wing dull greenish white; throat and malar region 

 greenish white slightly marked with blackish; auriculars dusky brown; 

 breast dull olive-green ; belly, sides, and tinder-tail coverts, pale, dull olive- 

 yellow striped with dull olive — the striping rather indistinct and irregular. 



The adult $ differs from the J only in having the whole pileum black with 

 small, round white spots. 



Measurements. — Adult $ , type, wing, 52.; tail, 26.5; tarsus, 11.8;e.\posed 

 culmen, 12.2. Adult 9 topotype, No. 10,329 ; wing, 52. ; tail, 27. ; tarsus, 1.3. ; 

 exposed culmen, 11.4. 



Remarks. — The new form ranges through Honduras and Nicaragua, though 

 its exact limits are not at present known. It is, however, wholly isolated from 

 the South American species it most nearly resembles, by Picumnus olivaceus 

 flavotindus Ridg., which occupies Panama, Chiriqui, and Costa Rica. In the 

 large series I have examined (my specimens from Panama, Chiriqui, and Hon- 

 duras and the considerable series in the U. S. National Museum) I find no 

 sign of intergradation between P. olivnceus flnvotinctus and P. dimotus. 



Much confusion of the various races of this group of Picumnus has pre- 

 vailed, until very recently, when Hartert (Novitates Zoologicoe, 1902, Vol IX., 

 pp. 606 and 607) distinguished them in a masterly way. The northern form 

 which I have just described appears, however, to have been wholly unknown 

 to Hartert. 



Todirostrum cinereum (Lixx.). 



Two males ; Ceiba and Yaruca. 



Myiopagis placens placens (Scl.). 

 One J; Ceiba. 



Elainea flavogastra subpagana (Scl. and Salv.).i 

 Two specimens, ^ and 9 ; Ceiba. 



1 Dinnberg, Ibis, April, 1903, pp. 241-242. 



