184 Mr. G. N. Lawrence on new Birds from Panama. 



7. Platyrhynchus superciliaris, sp. nov. 

 Platyrhynchus cancroma, Lawr. (nee Licht.), Ann. Lye. N. Y. 



vol. vii. p. 330. 



Upper plumage greenish olive; crown chestnut-red, orange- 

 yellow in the centre, and bordered with black ; adjoining this 

 black border is a superciliary stripe of pale yellow, which runs 

 from the upper mandible to the occiput; the ear-coverts are 

 yellowish olive, bordered above and below with black ; quills and 

 tail umber brown, the former edged with olive-green inclining 

 to rufous, the latter with light rufous ; under plumage yellow, 

 brightest on the throat and abdomen, with the breast and sides 

 olivaceous ; under wing-coverts yellow ; upper mandible black, 

 the under dusky, pale at the tip ; legs and feet brown. 



Length Sj inches ; wing 2j ; tail 1^; tarsi f. 



Resembles P. coronatus, Scl., in the colouring of the crest, 

 but appears to differ from that and all others in having a pale 

 yellow superciliary stripe. 



Fam. PICIDiE. 



8. Celeus squamatus, sp. nov. 



Female. Entire head, neck, and upper plumage bright reddish 

 cinnamon, darkest on the upper part of the back and on the 

 wing-coverts, and paler on the lower part of the back ; there are 

 a few black spots on the front, and the feathers of the back, 

 rump, and wing-coverts are marked with narrow black bars ; the 

 tail is rather light cinnamon, crossed with black bands, and black 

 at the end ; quills bright cinnamon, sparingly marked on both 

 webs with small black spots and brownish black at their ends ; 

 inside of wings cinnamon ; breast, sides, abdomen, and under 

 tail-coverts of a much paler cinnamon, each feather bordered 

 with a conspicuous submarginal black band, giving a scaly ap- 

 pearance to the entire under plumage; legs and bill plumbeous. 



Length 8 inches; wing 4| ; tail 3^ ; bill | ; tarsi f. 



This species resembles C. fraseri, but apparently differs from it, 

 especially in having the tail banded with black. In the figure of 

 C fraseri given by Malherbe the tail is brown, with fulvous 

 spots only on the outer edges of the webs *. 



* [Not the same as C. fraseri, of which the unique specimen is in my 

 collection, but nearly allied to that species. — P. L. S.] 



