52 BANGS — A NEW HONEY CREEPER [ever 
Coereba cerinoclunis’* sp. nov. 
Type, from San Miguel Island, Bay of Panama, J adult, no. 4962, coll. of 
E. A. and O. Bangs, collected April 29, 1900, by W. W. Brown, Jr. 
Specific characters.— Nearest to C. duteola; of about the size of that species 
ora triflelarger; back not such an intense black, but grayer and duller; rump 
patch much smaller and dull wax-yellow instead of bright gamboge-yellow ; 
yellow of breast paler; gray of throat paler. From C. mexicana the new 
species differs in larger size; in grayish black, instead of olivaceous gray, 
back; in clear pale yellow, instead of greenish yellow, breast. 
Color.— Type®: crown and sides of head black; , broad superciliary streak 
white; back, wings and upper tail coverts dark grayish black; small rump 
patch wax-yellow; throat cinereous; breast and middle of belly canary-yellow 
(a little darker and brighter in some much worn specimens); sides and flanks 
dull olivaceous; under tail coverts soiled white; tail grayish black, two outer 
rectrices white-tipped on inner webs; bend of wing pale yellow; lining of 
wing white; white wing spots about as in C. /s#teo/a. Female similar to the 
male, but a trifle smaller. 
Measurements.— Type, adult g: wing, 58.; tail, 35.; tarsus, 17.; culmen, 
13.2 mm. 
No. 4965, adult 9, topotype: wing, 57.; tail, 33.; tarsus, 17.2; culmen, 
13. mm. 
1 Cerinus — of the color of wax, and clunis — rump. 
2 The type and one or two others are in unworn plumage, with clear yellow breasts; many 
specimens have the plumage much abraded, and some are irregularly marked with deep orange 
on the yellow of the breast. This, I am inclined to think, is an artificial stain, got no doubt from 
the pollen of some flower. 
