Mexico^ Central America^ and South America. 7 



erii Mexico, belonging to the Smithsonian Institution, and sub- 

 mitted to me for examination by Prof. Henry. It contains many 

 species of much interest, but so far this is the only one I feel 

 satisfied to describe as new. 



Since my determination of it as a new species, I have 

 received a letter from Pi"of. Suniichrast, containing a full 

 description and an accurate drawing of the head, apparently 

 of the same bird, which he writes he is tempted to con- 

 sider new. It is, therefore, with much pleasure I dedicate 

 it to him. 



6. Pipilo cariiiani. 



Male. Whole upper plumage, head, tlix-oat, and upper part of 

 the breast olivaceous brown, with a reddish cast ; there is a spot of 

 white on the centre of the throat (this last character varies in size in 

 different individuals) ; tail blackish-brown, edged with olivaceous and 

 crossed with almost obsolete dusky bars, the outer two feathers on 

 each side with an irregular oval spot of white on their inner webs at 

 the end ; cpiills dark hair-brown, Avith grayish mai-gins ; the wing 

 coverts blackish-brown, the greater and middle coverts, the scapulars 

 and the tertiaries spotted with white at their ends ; lower jiart of 

 breast and middle of abdomen white, sides broadly marked with 

 bright ferruginous, the under tail coverts pale ferruginous ; upper 

 mandible brownish-black, the under paler ; tarsi and toes light fleshy- 

 brown. 



Length 6^ in. ; wing 2f ; tail 3 ; bill ^ ; tarsi 1 



The female differs only in having the color of the upper 

 plumage and that of the throat of a lighter brown ; the 

 coloring of the abdomen, and the sides are the same in both 



sexes, 



Ilahitat. Socorro Island, Mexico. Collected by Col. A. J. 

 Grayson, June, 1865. Types in Mus. Smithsonian Institution, 

 No. 508tl:3, No. 39990. 



Remarks. As will be seen, this is quite a diminutive species; 

 its style of coloring is like that of P. erythrojythaliniis^ P. 



