ANNALS 



LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



I. — Descriptions of New Species of Birds from Mexico^ Cen- 

 tral America^ and South America, with a Note on Ral- 

 lus longirostris. v^o^^ 



By GEO. N. LAWKENCE. 



Read January 30 th, 1871. 



Some of the birds described in this paper were obtained by 

 the late Col. A. J. Grayson, of Mazatlan, most of tlieni on the 

 Island of Socorro, off the Paciiic coast of Mexico. Col. Gray- 

 son's collection, with others made in Northwestern Mexico, were 

 kindly placed in my hands by Prof. Henry, of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, for examination, with a view to furnishing a cata- 

 logue of tliem, in which the notes of Col. Grayson are to be 

 incorporated. As some time will elapse before this can be pre- 

 pared and published, I have thought best, preliminary to its 

 appearance, to describe the new species. 



Several of the species have MS. names given them by Prof. 

 Baird, which in all such cases have been retained. 



1. Harpoi'hynchii^ graysoni, Baird, MS. 



Male. Above of a rather dull reddisli-bro^vn, the front paler, a 



blackish .spot in front of and under the eye ; chin, upper part of 



throat and sides of the head pale ochi'eous, the latter marked with 



narrow faint dusky bars ; tail dark liver-brown, the outer three 

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