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tlie secondaries and outer greater coverts; primaries black (without 

 white on outer webs, except at extreme base of the inner quills, and a 

 very narrow edging to the outer quills), but each bordered terminally 

 with white. Eump and upper tail-coverts white, marked longitudinally 

 with black. Tail black, the inner webs of the infcrmedicc partly white, 

 this crossed by oblique bars of black; lateral tail-feathers barred at 

 ends and on outer webs with white, the next pair with incomplete bars, 

 at end only. Lower part of abdomen, anal region, flanks, and crissum, 

 soiled white, the flanks transversely spotted, or irregularly barred with 

 black, the crissum with irregular V-shaped marks of the same; anal 

 region with smaller, nearly obsolete spots. Adult 9: Similar to the 

 (?, but lacking the crimson crown-patch. Wing, 4.90-5.00; tail, 3.70; 

 culmcn, .85-.90; tarsus, .80. "Iris brown: bill blackish; feet ashy-blue." 



(SUMICHKAST, MS.) 



This species is very peculiar in its coloration, and needs no compari- 

 son with any other. Its nearest ally is perhaps G. clegans, with whiclt 

 it agrees in the dark color of the breast and the blaclc surrounding the 

 eyes, although C. uropygialis is about equally related, in the uniform, 

 brown color of the nape, and the squarish crimson spot ornamenting 

 the pileum of the male alone. It is a much smaller and decidedly' more 

 delicate species than either of those named, however, and differs widely 

 in other characters of plumage. The absence of any red or yellow tinge 

 on the abdomen, and the longitudinal markings of the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts, which characterize this species, are unique features in this 

 genus. 



Of the single pair of specimens which I have been able to examine, 

 the female (E. Mus. Salv.-Godm. "Mexico; ex Darmstadt Mus.") differs 

 from the male (3Ius. Salv.-Godm. "Valley of Mexico ; II. S. Le Strange"), 

 besides in the absence of the red coronal patch, in having much nar- 

 rower and sparser streaks of black on the rump and upper tail-coverts, 

 and in having the white spots on the outer greater wing-coverts larger, 

 or even so nearly coalesced as to form a broken longitudinal patch. 



9. CENTUEI7S ELEGANS. 



Ficus elegans, SwAixs. Philos. Mag. 1827, 439 ( <? ad.; "maritime land." of Mexico). — 



Less. Compl. Bufif. ix,1837, 318.— Fixsch, Abb. Nat. Brem. 1870, 356 (Mazatlau). 



Centurus clegans, Gray, Gen. B. ii, 1849, 44*2. — Boxap. Cousp. i, 1850, 119; Cousp.. 



Zygod. 1854, no. 219.— Reich. Handb. 1854, 411.— ScL. Catal. 1862, 342, no. 2043 



(Mexico) ; P. Z. S. 1884, 177 (city of Mexico).— ScL. & Salv. Nom. Neotr. 1873, 



101 (Mexico). — Lawr. Mem. Boston Soc. ii, pt. lii, no. ii, 1S74, 294 (Mazatlau, 



Guadalajara, Tepic, and Sonora ; habits). 



Zebrapicus clegans, Malh. Mon. Pic. ii, 1862, 225 ; iv, 1832, pi. 102, figs. 5, 6 ( <? , 2 ad. ). 



Piczebre elegant, Malh. 11. c. 



Sab. — Western Mexico. 



Adult $\ Crown and occiput scarlet-crimson; nape bright orange- 

 yellow, sometimes abruptly defined against the red, often grading in- 



