NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELnilA. 233 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF BIRDS OF THE FAMILIES 

 TROGLODYTID^ AND TYRANNID^. 



BY GEO. N. LAWRENCE. 



TROGLODYTIDiE. 



1. Catherpes sumiclirasti. 



Upper plumage and wing coverts of a deep reddish-brown, sides 

 of the head lighter, and the rump more of a blackish-brown ; 

 quills dark brownish-black, the secondaries narrowly edged with 

 the same color as the back, and crossed with darker nearly obso- 

 lete bars ; throat of a dull light grayish-rufous, breast and sides 

 of the neck of a clear rather dark rufous, each feather of the 

 lower neck and breast crossed with several faint dusky narrow 

 bars ; the abdomen is dark reddish-brown, besprinkled with small 

 round white .spots, which are surrounded narrowly with black, 

 the sides of the breast and abdomen are of a dark reddish-brown, 

 crossed with not very conspicuous black bars ; the sides under 

 the wings, thighs, and under tail coverts deep blackish-brown 

 like the rump ; upper mandible black, tlie under is yellow, except 

 at the end and on the sides for its terminal half, where it is black- 

 ish-brown ; "iris brown ;" tarsi and toes black; the tail, unfortu- 

 nately, is deficient. 



Length to rump, 5 inches; wing, 2^ ; bill, l^; tarsi, 1^; hind 

 toe and claw, |. 



Habitat. " Mata Bejuco (Yera Cruz)." 



" Collected by Mr. T. Labarraque." 



Type in Museum Smithsonian Institution, from the collection 

 of Prof. F. Sumichrast. 



Remarks. — This is rather a remarkable looking bird, and seems 

 to be a second species of Catherpes., though of a much stouter 

 form and darker colors than C. mexicanus ; the bill is precisely 

 of the same form, though proportionally stronger, and the mi- 

 nute white spots on the abdomen are similar to those on the back 

 of that species ; the wings are very short and rounded, and the 

 feet large and strong. 



It was received over two years since, and I delayed its descrip- 

 tion hoping to get others, that b}' the character of the tail its 



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