Descriptions of New Species of American Birds. 473 



by Alfred C. Garsia, Esq., Consul for the Kepublic of Costa 

 Rica at Boston, who kindly permitted me to take it from the 

 collection, together with some other species I desired to 

 possess. 



10. Passerciilus giitiatus. 



Male. The plumage above is of a dull grayish brown, the centres 

 of the feathers blackish ; a stripe of pale yellow runs from the bill 

 to the eye, a longer stripe of pale yellow extends from the under 

 mandible down the side of the throat, the throat is white, and is 

 separated from the yellow stripe by a line of dark brown spots ; 

 tail and wings umber brown, the latter margined with dull pale 

 fulvous ; breast, upper part of abdomen, and sides, conspicuously 

 marked with elongated spots of dark brown, the lower part of the 

 abdomen white ; the under tail coverts white, sparingly streaked 

 with brown ; bill dusky yelloAV, the culmen dark brown ; " iris 

 dark brown, legs pale brown." 



"Length 5.15 ; wing 2.60 ; " tail 2 ; tarsi Jf. 



Habitat. — Lower California, San Jose. Collected by John 

 Xantus, December, 1859. 



Spec, in Mus. Smith. Ins. 'No. 26,615. 



Remarks. — In the size and form of its bill only, this species 

 resembles P. rostratus, above it is very much darker, and differs 

 from all its allies in the obscure grayish coloring of these parts 

 with no reddish brown, and in having its under plumage more 

 closely and fully spotted. 



11. Zoiiotrichia melaiiotis. 



Male. A line of grayish white runs through the centre of the 

 crown, from the base of the upper mandible to the hind neck, nar-r 

 row on the front and becoming wider behind ; this is bordered on 

 each side by a broad band of black, extending from the bill over 

 the crown and hind neck ; along the edge of the crown on each 



