283 



I should hardly have venturcd to separate it specifically ou my 

 own authority ; but, as the MS. name has attained circulation, I 

 tlimk lt nght to point out the apparent differences. 



3. Parra melanopygia, sp. nov. 



Capite toto cum cervice supera et corpore infra nigris : interscapulio 

 alis caudague purpurascenti-brunneis : dorso imo et tectricibus 

 cauda superiorihus nigris : hypochondriis et tectricibus sub- 

 aiaribus nigris : remigibusflavescenti-viridibus, nigro extus partim 

 margtnatis. 



Hab. S. Martha in New Grenada {Verreaux). 



MM Verreaux's specimens of this bird are labelled P. hypomeUna, 

 but that name is properly applicable to the next species. 



4. Parra HYPOMELiENA. 



Parra hypomelana, Gray & Mitch. Gen. of B. pi. 159. 



Nigra : alis fusco -nigris purpurascente tinctis : remigibus fiaves- 



centi-viridibus, nigro extus partim. marginatis. 

 Hab. New Grenada, S. Martha {Verreaux) ; Bogota (Mus. Brit ) • 

 Cartagena {Mus. Paris.) ; Chiriąui, Panama (Bridges). 



B. Species caruncula frontali trilobata : carunculis rictalibus 

 nullis. 



5. Parra gymnostoma. 



Parra gymnostoma, Wagl. Isis, 1831, p. 517. 

 Parra cordi/era, Less. R. Z. 1842, p. 135 ; Desmurs, Icon. Orn. 

 pi. 42. 



Capite toto cum cervice supera et infra ad medium pectus nigris 

 (Eneomicantibus: dorso toto alisgue castaneis : uropygio purpuras- 

 cente : abdomine purpurascenti-brunneo : remigibus flavescenti- 

 viridibus, nigro marginatis. 

 Hab. Southern Mexico ; Mazatlan (Mus. Brit.); Acapulco (A 

 Lesson);^eyv Grenada, S. Martha (Verreaua:) ; Hondūras (Dyson). 

 VVagler s accurate diagnosis of this bird has been generally passed 

 over, and Lesson's more recent appellation is generally employed for 

 this species. ^ *^ 



7. Catalogue of the Birds collected by M. Auguste 

 Salle in Southern Mextco, with Descriptions of New 

 Species. By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., F.Z.S., etc. 

 (Avės, PI. CXX., CXXI.) 



M. Auguste Sall^, one of the most active and successfui of the 

 present generation of traveUing Naturalists— on his recent retuin to 

 Lurope from Southern Mexico, brought \vith hira a very fine col- 

 lection of birds obtained principally near the town of Cordova in the 

 State of Vera Cruz, and partially also in the vicinitv of the peak of 



