76. HiEMOPHILA. 723 



Hah. Mexico. 



a. Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Mexico. Sclater Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Mexico. J. Gould, Esq. 



e. Ad. sk. Mexico. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



f. Ad. sk. Mexico (Boucard). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 9, h. $ 2 a< b sk. Ciudad Durango, Mexico, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



June (A. Forrer). 



2. Haemophila acuminata. 



Fringilla acuminata, Licht. MSS. in Mus. Berol. 



Aimophila acuminata, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 43 (1854). 



Zonotrickia melanotis {nee Bp.), Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 473 



(1866) ; id. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1868, p. 430. 

 Haemophila melanotis, Scl. fy Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 33 (1873) ; 



Salvin, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 422. 

 Aimophila melanotis, Lawr. Mem. Lost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 277 (1874). 

 Haemophila acuminata, Salvin fy Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, 



i. p. 397 (1886). 



Adult. General colour above rufous-brown, all the feathers 

 streaked with black, and shaded with brighter rufous ; lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts more uniform rufous-brown, the latter 

 with dusky tips ; scapulars light chestnut, with black streaks ; 

 lesser wing-coverts light chestnut ; median and greater coverts 

 blackish, edged with ashy white, before which is a rufous shade ; 

 bastard-wing dark brown with ashy margins ; primary-coverts and 

 quills dark brown, edged with pale rufous-brown, more distinctly 

 rufous on the secondaries, the innermost of which have broader pale 

 margins ; tail-feathers brown, with paler edges and dusky centres, 

 especially on the centre ones : crown of head white along the 

 centre, with a broad band of black along each side of the crown ; 

 lores and a broad eyebrow white ; feathers round eye and below the 

 latter as well as the ear-coverts black ; cheeks, throat, and under 

 surface of body white with a creamy tinge ; sides of neck ashy grey 

 like the hind neck, and streaked with black ; a patch of rufous on 

 the sides of the upper breast ; sides of body, flanks, and under tail- 

 coverts pale sandy buff ; thighs white, sandy buff externally ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries pale sandy buff; quills below dusky, ashy 

 rufous along the inner edge. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-6, 

 wing 2-6, tail 2-85, tarsus 085. 



Hub. Mexico. 



a. S ad. sk. Quantepec, Mexico (Deppe). Sclater Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. 18 leagues from Puebla towards Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Chiatla, Mexico (Bebouch). 



c. Ad. sk. Acapulco, Mexico, March 1880 (A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



H. Markham). 



3. Haemophila lawrencii. 



Hsemophila ruficauda (nee Bp.), Later. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, 



p. 22 (1874). 

 Haemophila lawrencii, Salvin 4" Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves,i. 



p. 397 (1886). 



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