Species of Birds from America. 489 



Mr. Salvin was kind enough to send me for examination 

 all the specimens of P. salvini and P. rubicoides contained 

 in the mus. Salv.-Godm. ; so I have been able to study 

 the differences between these two species in a satisfactory- 

 manner. The result arrived at is that P. salvini has only a 

 superficial resemblance to P. rubicoides, being perhaps more 

 closely related to P. fuscicauda, Cab., from Costa Rica, 

 agreeing with it in the form of the crest, which is short and 

 concealed, and in the blackish colour surrounding the bill 

 laterally and on the chin. It has also the more compressed 

 and elongated bill of P. fuscicauda, from which it is never- 

 theless quite distinct as a species, having the wings and tail 

 red as in P. rubicoides. 



From P. rubicoides it is easily distinguishable by the form 

 of the crest, which in the new species is very short, in P. ru- 

 bicoides long, full, and much apparent. In P. salvini the ver- 

 milion of the crest is quite concealed, all the red feathers being 

 broadly tipj)ed with the colour of the back. In the adult 

 male of P. rubicoides the red feathers of the crest are not 

 margined with dusky, only the young male showing blackish 

 tippings to some of them. In P. rubicoides the red crest is 

 always bordered laterally with a broad blackish stripe; this 

 is altogether absent in P. salvini, which has the sides of 

 the crown of the same reddish -brown colour as the back. 

 The distinct blackish colour of the lores, sides of bill, and 

 chin (in which character P. salvini agrees perfectly with P. 

 fuscicauda) is always replaced in P. rubicoides by reddish. 

 The reddish brown of the upper parts is somewhat paler in 

 P. salvini, and has a more greyish cast. 



It appears also that P. salvini, as a rule, is somewhat larger 

 than P. rubicoides, having longer wings and tail and a longer 

 bill too. The latter seems to be always somewhat slender and 

 not so broad at the base as in P. rubicoides. The obtuse tooth 

 in the middle of the cutting-edge of the upper mandible, which 

 is sometimes much developed in P. rubicoides, is nearly or 

 quite absent in the new species. 



The females of the two species show but little resemblance. 

 The very dark brown upper plumage, the want of the olive- 



