DesGripiions of tliree New Species. 137 



YII. — Descriptions of tliree New Species of American Birds, 

 with a Note on Eugenes spectabilis. 



By GEO. N. LAWRENCE. 



Read November 27th, 1871. 



1. MiBBftum iDig'B*iIorij!!$. 



Plumage above dusky cinereous, each feather with the centre black- 

 ish-brown ; a superciliary stripe of creamy-white extends from the 

 front as far as the occiput ; lores dee[) black, and behind the eye a broad 

 stripe of brownish -black ; sides of the head and the throat dull white 

 with a slight fulvous tinge, the latter bordered on each side by a nar- 

 row stripe of black ; across the side of the neck is a broad mark of 

 pale fulvous ; tail feathers blackish-brown, having a hoary appearance 

 above for the greater part of their length from the base, the outer 

 three on each side are light dusky fulvous at their ends for rather 

 more than an inch in extent ; quills blackish-brown edged with dull 

 ochreous, wing coverts dark brown with whitish-gray margins, the 

 pi-imary coverts end largely in creamy- white, forming a conspicuous 

 bar over the primaries ; vmder wing coverts brownish-ash, edged 

 with dull white, the inner margins of the quills are very pale fulvous 

 white ; breast brownish-ash, the feathers with grayish margins ; ab- 

 domen and under tail coverts dull white just tinged with fulvous ; 

 sides the color of the breast and sparingly striped with blackish- 

 brown ; bill black, except the basal half of the under mandible, where 

 it is yellowish-white ; tarsi light hazel-brown in front, whitish behind. 



Length 10^ in. ; wing 4|- ; tail b^ ; tarsi \^ ; bill ^. 



Habitat. Mexico. 



Remarks. I obtained the above-described bird from Dr. 

 C. H. Yan Patten, of Costa Rica, who got it in exchange from 

 Mr. Gruber, of San Francisco, bj whom it was labelled as 

 coming from Mexico. As it looked so unlike all other lS"ortli 

 American species of J/'mw6', I thought the locality given might 



