NO. 3 NEW BIRDS FROM PANAMA AND VICINITY NELSON 2T, 



Description of type. — Entire upper parts, including a broad post- 

 ocular streak, tops of wings and tail tawny brown : wings indis- 

 tinctly barred with dusky brown ; top of tail feathers with transverse 

 series of small dusky spots and imperfect bars more regularly placed 

 than in ochraceus; lores, chin and sides of head below eyes from 

 malar region back to include lower two-thirds of ear coverts and 

 lower part of sides of neck bright ochraceous but not so rich as in 

 ligea; supra- and postocular streak, ending abruptly at posterior 

 border of ear coverts, ochraceous burly ; middle of throat, under side 

 of neck and breast dull ochraceous buffy; abdomen dull white; sii 

 of breast and flanks ochraceous brown ; under tail coverts dull 

 ochraceous indistinctly and irregularly barred with dusky. 



Measurements of type. — Wing, 44 ; tail, 27.5 ; culmen, 14.5 ; tarsus, 



Remarks. — Although the present species is much like ochraceus 

 yet owing to the two species belonging to high mountain areas widely 

 separated by lowlands it is probable that intergradation does not 

 occur. Goldman only secured a single specimen and saw one other 

 during his stay of nearly a month on Mount Pirri so they appear 

 to be uncommon. The present bird is much less reddish fulvous than 

 T. ochraceus ligea from Chiriqui and differs from it more than from 

 typical ochraceus. Compared with T. solstitialis paliidipectus of 

 western Colombia festinus is smaller, with longer bill and brighter 

 more reddish ochraceous on sides of head and neck and upper parts 

 of head and body, and less strongly marked bars on wings and tail. 



MYADESTES COLORATUS, sp. nov. 



Varied Solitaire 



Type. — Xo. 232601, adult male, U. S. National Museum, Biologi- 

 cal Survey Collection, from Mount Pirri (at 5,000 feet altitude), near 

 head of Rio Limon, eastern Panama; collected March C\ 1912, by 

 E. A Goldman (collector's number 15309). 



Distribution. — Known from type locality only. 



Specific characters. — Head, neck and under parts of bod) gray 

 with a jet black mask about base of bill, extending hack to eyes as in 

 M. melauops, with top of back and wings rufous nearly as in rat- 

 io ides. 



Description. — Front of head covered by a Mack mask surrounding 

 base of bill, covering forehead and sides of head to middle of eye-. 

 malar region and chin; rest of head, neck and under parts of body 

 clear dark ashy gray a little paler than in melauops, sometimes 



