4: Description of New Sj)ecics of Birds from 



brown, barred with darker brown ; upper mandible brown, the under 

 yellowisli- white, dusky at the end ; tarsi and toes yellowish-brown. 

 Length (fresh) 5 in.; wing 1^; tail If ; bill f ; tarsi f. 



Habitat. Socorro Island, Mexico. Collected by Col. A. J. 

 Grayson. Type in Mns. Smithsonian Institution, '^o. 50810. 



RemarJcs. This somewhat resembles T. ioiquietus from 

 Panama, but that species has a stouter bill, the colors are more 

 rufous, and the bars more clearly defined ; the flanks and under- 

 tail coverts are of a darker rufous, the former faintly barred, 

 the latter with dark brown bars and ending with white. 



Note hy Col. Grayson. 



^^ Socorro Wren. Iris brown; bill dark brown above, under 

 mandible paler ; feet brown, nails black; wings much rounded, 

 the fifth and sixth primaries longest. 



" This busy little wren is the most common bird I met with 

 upon the Island, and everywhere its cheerful song may be 

 heard in the ti'ees, or among the brambles and rocks ; like all 

 the birds peculiar to this Island, it is very tame. I often saw it 

 feeding upon dead land-crabs ; and I may here remark, that all 

 the birds inhabiting the Island, with the exception of doves and 

 parrots, subsist more or less upon this crustacean." 



4. Pariila iiisiiilnris. 



Male. Plumage above of a clear bluish-gray, a patch of dull green- 

 ish-yellow in the middle of the back ; a blackish mark sun-ounds the 

 fore part of the eye ; tail feathers brownish-black, with margins the 

 color of the back, the outer two feathers on each side have a small 

 spot of dull white on the inner web near the end ; the smaller wing 

 coverts and exposed portions of the others, and of the inner quills, 

 are the color of the back ; the concealed parts of the middle and 

 lai'ger coverts are black, the ends of both largely marked with white ; 

 the quills are blackish-brown, the outer with narrow whitish edges ; 

 inside of wings white ; under-plumage bright yellow, deepening to 

 orange on the upper breast and on the flanks, lower part of abdomen 

 light fulvous, in the middle and on the under tail coverts creamy- 



