Mr. G. N. Lawrence on new American Birds. 383 



T. E. Buckley in some rushy ground on the 8th Feb., 1872, 

 and was, I believe, the only specimen we saw. Later, when 

 we met with the true tricollaris, Vieill., in South Africa, both 

 Mr. Buckley and myself came to the conclusion that our 

 Fantee bird was distinct. 



Mr. J. E. Harting most generously lent me his valuable 

 notes which he had made from the type specimen of Lesson^s 

 indica, which at once enabled me to assign that name to the 

 Fantee bird. I trust that Mr. Harting will give some further 

 details respecting this species in another of his exhaustive 

 papers on rare or little-known Limicolae. 



XXXIV. — Descriptions of five new Species of American Birds. 

 By George N. Lawrence. 



(Plate IX.*) 



Chlorospingus? speculiferus. Plate IX. fig. 1. 



Entire upper plumage and sides of the head olive-brown ; 

 the feathers of the crown have their centres dark brown with 

 their margins greyish ; the two central tail-feathers are coloured 

 like the back, the others are light reddish brown and are 

 closely crossed with nearly obsolete darker bars ; quill-feathers 

 dark brown, first edged with grey on the outer primaries, the 

 outer webs of the fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries are marked 

 near their bases with white, partly concealed by the wing- 

 coverts, the portion beyond the coverts appearing as a small 

 triangular spot ; the under plumage is greyish white, and has 

 a somewhat mottled appearance, owing to the darker bases of 

 the feathers showing a little ; the sides are dusky, with a tinge 

 of rufous ; under tail-coverts light rufous, with dusky centres ; 

 upper mandible dark brown, the under pale brownish white ; 

 tarsi and toes brownish black. 



Length 6| inches, wing 3|, tail 2|, bill f, tarsus |. 



Hab. Porto Rico. Discovered by Dr. J. Gundlach. 



Type in National Museum, Washington, U. S. 



Remarks. This is a peculiar-looking bird, and I am not sure 

 [* This Plate will be issued with the October Number. — Ed.] 



