76. H^aioPHiLA. 729 



like the inner greater coverts ; tail-feathers black, narrowly edged 

 with ashy fulvous, the two outer ones paler towards the ends and 

 edged with white, which extends round the top of the outermost 

 feather ; head and hind neck more ashy than the back, and streaked 

 with black, broadly on the crown, less distinctly on the hind neck; 

 the forehead blackish, with a tiny streak of white at the base 

 of the bill; a second small streak of white from the base of 

 the nostril over the eye ; eyelid white ; lores and feathers below 

 the eye black ; the ear-coverts dark ashy like the crown, with a 

 narrow line of black along their upper edge ; cheeks white, forming 

 a broad band ; throat black, with a tiny white chin-spot, and the 

 lower part of the black throat slightly streaked with white ; lower 

 throat, fore neck, and chest ashy grey, extending on to the sides of 

 the breast ; breast and abdomen white ; sides of body pale cinna- 

 mon, rather clearer and brighter on the under tail-coverts ; thighs 

 white, dusky posteriorly ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, 

 with ashy bases ; edge of wing white ; quills dusky below, ashy 

 along the edge of the inner web. Total length 6 - 7 inches, culmen 

 0*5, wing 2 - 9, tail 3*3, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but rather paler. Total length 

 6 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-9, tail 3-7, tarsus 085. 



The winter plumage is brighter than the summer plumage when 

 the feathers get much worn, and the back becomes darker and more 

 closely streaked with black as the light edges to the feathers 

 become abraded. 



Bab. Mexico. 



a. Ad. sk. San Juan del Rio, Mexico. E. Eebouch [C.]. 



b. S ad. sk. Puebla. A. Boucard [0.]. 



c. S ad. sk. Oaxaca, March (A. Boucard). Salvin-Clodman Coll. 



d. 2 a d. sk. Oaxaca (Fenochid). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Mexico. Sclater Coll. 



10. Hsemophila pulchra. 



Hseniophila pulchra, Sclater, Ibis, 1886, p. 259, pi. viii. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above brown, the feathers 

 of the back more or less chestnut at the base ; scapulars light chestnut ; 

 lesser and median coverts slaty grey ; greater coverts chestnut, the 

 outer ones slaty grey, washed with chestnut externally, or slaty grey 

 with hoary grey edges ; bastard-wing black, edged with ashy grey ; 

 primary-coverts and quills black, edged with ashy grey, more hoary 

 on the primaries, the secondaries with broad margins of chestnut ; 

 upper tail-coverts slaty grey; tail-feathers black, margined with ashy, 

 the two outer ones for the most part white, with a longitudinal black 

 mark along the end of the outer web and an oblique black base to 

 the inner web, the black increasing in extent on the penultimate 

 feather, the white on the third feather reduced to a small wedge- 

 shaped mark at the end of the inner web ; crown of head and hind 

 neck brown like the back, deepening in colour on the former ; base 



