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Picolaptes compressus insignis, new subspecies. Broadly 

 Striped Woodhewer. 



Type, No. 154647, U. S. Nat. Museum, Dept. Agric. coll., J, Otatitlan, 

 Vera Cruz, Mexico, April 15, 1894. Collected by E. W. Nelson and E. A. 

 Goldman (Orig. No. 193S). 



Distribution. — Lowlands of Vera Cruz. 



Similar to Picolaptes compressus of Costa Rica, but distinguished 

 by broader white shaft-lines on top of the head, neck and back,, 

 and their farther extension down the back. The white markings 

 below are also broader than in ordinary Central American birds. 

 The wings are of about equal length, but the tail of insignis is 

 decidedly longer than in true compressus. 



Automolus pectoralis, new species. Oaxaca Automolus. 



Type, No. 154672, U. S. Nat. Museum, Uept. Agric. coll., $ , Pluma, 

 Oaxaca, Mexico, March 18, 1895. Collected by E. W. Nelson and E. A. 

 Goldman (Orig. No. 2571). 



Distribution. — Found by us only in the heavy forest of the temperate 

 zone near Pluma, Oaxaca, where they were not numerous. 



Description. — Crown, nape, and back to rump, dull tawny brown, a 

 little lighter on forehead ; rump rich rufous ; tail a little darker shade of 

 same; lores and line under eye with ear-coverts united in a uniformly 

 brown area; breast, throat and sides of neck and extending forward above 

 the ear-coverts to eye a nearly uniform dark rufous brown ; chin a slightly 

 paler shade of same; middle of belly dark fulvous in marked contrast to 

 breast; flanks dark, tawny olive ; under tail-coverts like breast ; exposed 

 parts of folded wings dull rufous. 



The uniform color on the top of the head and back, with the 

 generally lighter coloration of the entire bird distinguishes this 

 from other known Mexican and Guatemalan species of this genus. 

 Wing 94, tail 86, culmen 25, tarsus 27. 



Otocoris alpestris oaxacae, new subspecies. Oaxaca Horned 



Lark. 



Type, No. 145003, U. S- Nat. Museum, Dept. of Agric. coll., $ , San 

 Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca, May 15, 1895. Collected by E. W. Nelson and E. 

 A. Goldman (Orig. No. 2700). 



Distribution. — Valley of Oaxaca and coast plain immediately bordering 

 the Oaxaca shore of the Gulf of Tehuantepec, from Salina Cruz to the 

 border of Chiapas; ranging from sea level up to about 6000 feet. 



