Descriptions of New Species of Birds. 303 



XXIX. — Descriptions of Three New Species of Birds. 



By Geo. N. Lawrence. Read April 22, 1861. 



€ir.*)llaria perspicillata, 



Male. Upper part of liead and bind neck dark greyish slate ; back 

 dark yellowisb olive, some of the featbers marked down tbeir centres 

 witb narrow stripes of pale orange or fulvous yellow ; tail olive brown ; 

 wing coverts of the same color as the back, each feather having a spot at 

 the end of fulvous yellow ; spurious wing black with a pale orange stripe 

 on the outer edge ; primaries and secondaries blackish brown, broadly 

 edged with rather dull rufous, brightest on the former, on the base of 

 which, below the spurious wing, is a lighter colored spot; tertiarics olive 

 on the outer webs, and blackish brown on the inner; lores, eyelid:*, and 

 ear coverts pale orange buff or salmon color, the front half of the buff 

 colored circle around the eye is bordered with a narrow edging of bhick ; 

 a black stripe extends from the lower mandible down the sides of the 

 neck ; throat white, pale yellowish orange down the side of the neck ; 

 the feathers of the upper part of the breast are of the same color as the 

 side of the neck in their centres, with the edges broadly marked with 

 black ; on the lower part of the breast, and sides of the abdomen, the 

 feathers are similarly edged with black, but the centres are white, giving 

 a striped appearance to the under parts, a portion only of the lower part 

 of the abdomen in the centre being free from stripes ; the sides under 

 the wings are olivaceous with broad stripes of dusky black; thighs and 

 under tail coverts dull pale orange ; under wing coverts deep salmon 

 color, spotted with black near the outer edge of the wing; inner edges 

 of primaries pale salmon color; upper mandible dark horn color, lower 

 mandible yellowish white, dark at the end ; legs and feet yellow, claws 

 ^ale. 



Length about 5tV in., wing 3:^; tail ly\ ; bill l|i ; tarsi/g. 



Habitat. — New Grenada, Isthmus of Panama. 

 The female similar in plumage to the male. 



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