346 Birds from Central and South America. 



under surface closely banded with black, the under tail coverts are also 

 dark rufous, without bands but marked with a few minute black spots; 

 tail dark chocolate brown ; quills blackish-brown with olive brown mar- 

 gins ; under wing coverts rufous banded with black; upper mandible 

 black, the under brownish horn color, lighter underneath and at the 

 base ; tarsi and toes dark fleshy brown. 



Length of skin 9£ in.; wing 6 ; tail 2-f; tarsi 2| ; middle toe and 

 claw ]|; hind toe T \, its claw f ; bill from front (curve) \\, high at 

 base \\, wide \\. 



Habitat. Ecuador. 



Specimen in Mus. Smith. Inst., No. of type 35101. 



Remarks. — This appears to be the largest of the genus yet 

 discovered; the only species it at all resembles is G. squami- 

 gera. and that only in the transverse markings on the under 

 plumage, but in the new species these bands are regular, more 

 distinct, and extend over the entire under surface, whereas in 

 G. squamigera the markings are almost confluent on the neck 

 and upper part of the breast, gradually lessening in size and 

 number, until on the abdomen there are none ; the coloring of 

 the new species below, especially on the sides of the head, 

 neck, and breast, is bright rufous, which parts in the other are 

 of a rather light tawny color; in the upper plumage they are 

 not at all alike ; the bill and legs are strikingly much stouter 

 than those of squamigera. 



4. Grallaricula Costaricensis, nov. sp. 



Male. Plumage above of a brownish olive-green duller on the head, 

 the front adjoining the bill tinged with rufous ; tail dark olive-brown, 

 quills blackish-brown, the outer margins of a snuff-brown ; larger wing 

 coverts of a dark rich or Vandyke brown, narrowly edged with dark 

 rufous; the spurious wing feathers are also dark brown, the outer web of 

 the outer feather pale rufous ; under wing coverts pale bright rufous; 



