Descriptions of Two New Species of Birds. 71 



in having the sides of the head, the tail feathers and the outer 

 margins of the quills dark red ; in P. fuscicauda these parts 

 are dusky. 



Myiarehus flammulatus. 



Entire upper plumage of a light greenish-olive, the crown just per- 

 ceptibly of a darker shade ; tail feathers of a rather light brown, the outer 

 margins light rufous and the inner webs just edged with very pale salmon 

 color; loral space and eyelids grayish-white: chin, throat, and upper 

 part of breast grayish-white, the centres of the feathers on the upper part 

 of the throat are very pale ash, but the lower part of the throat and the 

 breast are marked with distiuct light colored ashy flammulations, lower 

 part of breast, abdomen and under tail coverts pale yellow; thighs of a 

 light rusty-brown, quill feathers of a darker brown than the tail, the pri- 

 maries edged with very pale rufous, the secondaries margined with gray- 

 ish white, and the tertiaries broadly edged with grayish-white ; the wing 

 coverts eud rather broadly with very pale rufous, forming three distiuct 

 bars across the wings ; under wing coverts pale yellow, inner margins of 

 quills pale salmon color; bill dark brownish-black, with a whitish spot on 

 the angle of the lower mandible ; tarsi and toes brownish-black. 



Length 6 in. ; wing 2£; tail 2&; tarsi | ; bill |, width at base 7-16. 



Habitat. Mexico, "Tehuantepec, Cacoprieto." Type in 

 the National Museum at Washington. Procured by Prof. 

 F. Sumichrast in June, 1872 ; original number 1555. 



Remarks. Prof. Sumichrast thought it would prove to be 

 a new species, and forwarded it to me for examination, but 

 I did not receive the specimen until the summer of this year, 

 the box containing it having been lost sight of for several 

 months. 



Its dimensions are less than those of M. laivrencii, and 

 the colors throughout are paler ; it also differs in having a 

 whitish throat and flammulated markings on the breast ; these 

 parts in 31. laivrencii being of a clear bluish cinereous ; the 

 lores and eyelids are grayish-white, in 31. laivrencii they are 

 brown like the crown ; the bill in the new species is much 

 broader. 



In reply to my inquiry for other facts concerning it, and 

 its relationship to 31. laivrencii, Prof. Sumichrast wrote as 



