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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



witli a suffusion of black above it on each side of the vertex. Cheek feathers 

 white, narrowly edged all round with black ; lores and stripe behind eye black. 

 A black line on each side the chin and upper part of the throat, all the feathers 

 of which are faintly and inconspicuously edged with black. Exposed surfaces 

 of secondaries like back, with obscure transverse lines of black, still more 

 indistinctly seen on the greater coverts. Tail feathers similarly marked. 

 IS'o white spots on the coverts, and but faint indications on the alular feathers. 



The grayish feathers of the belly have generally a lighter tip, or obscure 

 terminal light spot ; sometimes with a faint appearance of broad bars of 

 whitish and gray. 



Total. length, 4.00; wing, 2.25 ; tail, 1.30; exposed portion of 1st primary, 

 .87, of 2d, 1.33 ; length of bill from forehead. .65, from nostril, .40, along gape, 

 .75 ; tarsus, .90; middle toe and claw, .7(3 ; hind toe and claw, .tii. 



A specimen in Mr. Lawrence's collection, from Guatemala, differs 

 in a mucli deeper and more purplish rufous on the back. 



Specimens from Mexico are similar, but differ in having the top 

 of the head and nape reddish-brown, similar to the back, only a shade 

 lighter, instead of olive-gray. Should this be constant, as a geo- 

 graphical difference, the Mexican form will be entitled to a distinctive 

 ■name. None of the specimens agree very well with the description 

 by Lafresnaye of his Merulaxis griseicollis, and may all be really 

 distinct, especially in view of the widely different loealities. 



This species, with a close resemblance to prodheleucus and leu- 

 costictus, may be readily recognized by the plumbeous ashy under 

 parts, the narrow, scarcely appreciable black edgings of the throat 

 feathers, the absence of white spots on the wing coverts, etc. The 

 bill is smaller and more slender. 



Locality. 



Xalapa, Mex. 



[Guat. 



Volcaii de Fuego, 

 Guatemala. 



When 

 Collected. 



Received from 



J. Krider. 

 Verreaux. 

 Cab. Lawrence 

 0. Salvin. 

 Cab. Lawrence. 



Collected by 



D'Oca. 



Salvin & Godm. 



(22,389.) " C. prostheltucus." 



IleterorBiina lewcoplirys. 



Troglodytes leucopkrys, Tschudi, Conspectus Fauna Peruana. — CijpJw- 

 rinus leucophrys, Cab. Wiegm. Arch. 1847, i, 206. — Sclatek, Catal. 

 1861, 19, no. 123. 



Troglodytes giittatiis, Haktl. Verz. Mus. Brem. 1844, 28. 



Hab. Peru to Costa Rica ? 



(30,486.) Above dark rufous brown, brightest towards the rump; top of 

 head dusky blackish, the feathers obscurely sullused at the ends with olivace- 



