Descriptions of New Species of Birds. 28 5 



Habitat. — Isthmus of Panama. 



Eemarks. — This species is about the size of my J/, cinerascens, 

 but the colors are much darker, and the bill longer and broader. 

 Compared with M. crinitus, the color of the throat is of a 

 deeper shade and the dark coloring on the sides more extensive, 

 the abdomen is of a rather lighter yellow, the bill is about the 

 same width at the base, but longer. From both species it dif- 

 fers in having no rufous coloring on the wings or tail, except the 

 very slight tinge on the edge of the latter, in having the inner 

 edges of the quill feathers pale yellow and the wings much 

 shorter. In the absence of ferruginous it resembles 31. phcBo- 

 cejphalus, Sclater. 



Two specimens were obtained by Mr. J. McLeannan, who 

 states that it sits on the top of a tree, and has a cry very simi- 

 lar to that of the Koyal Tody {Ifuscivora Mexicana\ so much 

 so that when he shot these specimens he mistook them for that 

 species. 



Phlo^opsis MeliCaamaBii. 



Head above umber brown, with a slight ochreous tinge, 

 there is a deep black spot on both the upper and lower eyelid ; 

 hind neck encircled with a band of bright chestnut red ; back, 

 wing-coverts, tertiaries, and rump light umber brown, tinged 

 with ochraceous or dull ferruginous yellow ; feathers of tlie 

 back, scapulars, tertiaries and wing-coverts ending with large 

 spots of deep velvet black, and having pale ferruginous mar- 

 gins ; these markings exist on the rump and upper tail-coverts, 

 but become rather obscure towards the latter, when they are 

 almost obsolete ; tail deep blackish brown, with the two exter- 

 nal feathers on each side tipped with white; primaries and 

 secondaries dark umber brown with light brown edgings; 

 throat and neck in front of a deep glossy black ; breast and 

 upper part of abdomen bright chestnut red, each feather being 

 marked with a subterminal round spot of deep black ; irame- 



