1887.] PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 587 



29 Embeinagia striaticeps Lafr. 



Three speciniens, June 12 jiiid An<2;ii.st 2. 



30 Spizella piiietorum Salv. 



Oue specimen in freslilj" acquired lall plumage. This differs from the 

 ^ull or spring plumage exactly as does that of S. socialis, from which S. 

 pinetonim may be distinguished by its much darker coloration. (See 

 Ibis, 1884, p. 81.) 



31. Aimophila rufascens Scl ? 



Seven specimens (July 12 to August 8) in such worn plumage that I 

 am unable to mnke a satisfactory comparison with examples from Gua- 

 temala and ]\rexico. They appear to be uniformly grayer, however, 

 especially on sides of head and neck, with tail less decidedly brown, 

 and the size appears to be a little less. If separable the Honduras bird 

 might be called AimoiiliUa nifcscens discolor. 



32. Sturnella magna iiiexspectata, subp. nov. 



SuBSP. CHAR.— Similar to S. magna (Linn.) and S. magna mexicana 

 (Scl)., but ranch smaller and with shorter and more conical bill than 

 either, and clearer or less brownish coloration than the latter. 



Hahifat. — Honduras (Segovia Eiver). 



Adnlt male (type, No. 112127, Segovia River, Honduras, July 19, 1887; 

 Charles H.Townsend): Pileum black, divided medially by a narrow stripe 

 of dull white; hind-neck pale brownish bufiy, longitudinally spotted with 

 black; feathers of back black, narrowly edged with pale brownish and 

 light bufiy grayish ; the scapulars similar, but light edgings much broader 

 and black median stripes with serrated or irregular edges; rump light 

 grayish buffy, striped with black ; the upper tail-coverts similar, but 

 with black stripes more serrated along edges ; lesser and middle wing- 

 coverts light brownish ash-gra.y, each feather ^\ith a somewhat wedge- 

 shaped, serrate-edged spot of black ; greater coverts and secondaries 

 light brown, with paler, more grayish edges, barred with black, these 

 black bars scarcely touching edges of feathers, and near shafts coalesced, 

 except on terminal portion of some of the feathers ; primaries dusky, 

 edged Avith light brownish gray. Tail-feathers black with deeply ser- 

 rated light grayish brown margins, the two lateral feathers chieHy dull 

 grayish white and next two feathers with a considerable portion of 

 inner webs also dull whitish. Anterior portion of a broad superciliary 

 stripe, chin, throat, lower portion of malar region, and lower parts, 

 deep gamboge-yellow; posterior portion of superciliary stripe (from 

 middle of upper, eyelid backward) plain grayish white; immediately 

 beneath this a deep black postocular stripe; auriculars, suborbital re- 

 gion, and upper and posterior portions of malar region dull grayish 

 white ; sides of neck grayish white, the lower portion streakedwith deep 

 black ; hind-neck brownish white (more brownish towards back), 

 streaked with black ; a broad cresceutic patch of deep black on chest, 

 connected with a black spot immediately beneath the immaculate white 



