334 Zoological Society : — 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



May 14, 1861.— Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



Descriptions of Three New Species of Birds from 

 Guatemala. By Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.Z.S. 



The three birds I propose to describe iii this paper form part of 

 a collection lately brought to this country by Mr. Robert Owen, 

 Corresponding Member of this Society, from Vera Paz, Guatemala. 

 The greater part of this collection was formed by one of the col- 

 lectors I employed during a visit to Coban in the early part of last 

 year : the low-lying lands of Central Vera Paz in the neighbourhood 

 of a village called Chisec, situated on one of the confluents of the 

 Rio de la Pasion, is the locality from which they were derived. The 

 rest of the collection was formed by Mr. Owen himself at Coban, or 

 in the adjacent mountains. Amongst the known forms are many of 

 considerable rarity, besides several additions to our knowledge of the 

 Avi-fauna of the country from which they come. 



1. CYPHORHINUS PHILOMELA. 



Supra brunneus, plumis anguste nigro marginatis,pileo et nropygio 

 obscurioribus : subtus fuliginosas, plumis medialiter nigris, et 

 nigro terminatis, gula pallidiore,lateribus brunneis nigro trans- 

 fasciatis : alis caudaque nigris, plumis tectricvm remigum ma- 

 cula parva subapicali ocliracescenti-alba : rostra nigro, pedibus 

 fuscis. 

 Long. tot. 4, alae 2*3, caudse 1 poll. augl. et dec. 

 Hab. In Prov. Verse Pacis sylvis montium. 



Obs. Afhnis Cgphorhino ba?nblcc exC&yenna, sed tectricibus alarum 

 maculatis et non albo vittatis facile notabilis. 



Tbis Wren belongs to the division of this genus which Dr. Sclater 

 has classed under the name of Microcerculus. It is known to the 

 natives as the ' Ruisefior, ' or Nightingale — a name it has acquired 

 from its great vocal powers. 



2. Embernagra chloronota. 



Supra olivacea, pileo cinereo : snbtus cinerea, gula et ventre 

 medio albis, crisso Jtavidiore, la'teribus olivaceis : vitta utrinque 

 pilei vittaque angusta per oculos transeunte nigris: alis fuscis, 

 extus dorso concoloribus : tectricibus subalaribus et campterlo 

 Icete flavis : rostro snperiore nigro, wferiorc corneo, pedibus 

 carneis. 



Long. tot. 5*/f>, aloe 2'6, caudse 2*5. 



Hab. In Prov. Verse Pacis regione calida. 



Obs. Affinis Embernagra conirostri ex Nova Granada, sed statura 

 minore, dorso olivaceo pectoreque cinereo dignosccnda. 



Several specimens of this Embernagra are in the collection, all 

 closely agreeing in the above characters. 



