471 Descriptions of New Species of American Birds. 



side, a broad grayish white band runs from the upper mandible 

 over the eye to the hind neck ; adjoining, a wide band of black 

 extends on each side of the head, from the bill through the middle 

 of and below the eye, including the ear coverts ; feathers of the 

 hind neck ashy gray, with blackish brown centres, the feathers of 

 the back are of a rather bright rufous, with lighter edges, and each 

 marked down the centre with an elongated spot of blackish brown, 

 lower part of back and rump light brownish rufous ; upper tail 

 coverts of the same color as the rump, but with dark centres and 

 pale margins ; under plumage grayish white, sides of the lower 

 part of the neck and of the upper part of the breast cinereous, a 

 lighter shade of tins color extending across the lower part of the 

 neck, the sides, lower abdomen, and under tail coverts washed 

 with pale rufous ; the tail is of a reddish brown, w T ith pale narrow 

 margins ; the wing coverts are colored like the back ; the quills are 

 dark brown, the primaries with pale rufous gray edgings, the 

 secondaries with dull rufous, and the tertiaries with broad margins 

 of bright rufous ; upper mandible black, the under yellowish white 

 with the tip dusky ; " iris brown ; " legs yellowish. 



Length (fresh) 7 in. ; wing 3 ; tail 3^; tarsi 15|— 16. 



Habitat. — Western Mexico, Plains of Colima. Collected 

 by John Xantus. June, 1863. 



Specimens in Mus. Smith. Inst. No. of Type, 31,827. 



Remarks. — This is a very fine and well marked species, it 

 has a large bill and may be readily known by the four strongly 

 defined black stripes on the head, separated by the three gray- 

 ish white ones. 



12. €otiirnicultis liiexicaims. 



Female. The feathers of the plumage above have their centres 

 of a dull rufous brown wdth ashy gray margins ; the tail-feathers 

 are livery brown edged with gray ; quills brown with dull pale 

 rufous gray margins ; front edge of wing light yellow ; under 

 plumage ashy white, tinged with pale brownish rufous, hrightest 



