I 7 J. Elliot on the Genus Dendromis. [April 



Dendrornis nana. 



Dendromis nana Lawr. Ibis, 1S63, p. 1S1, ex Panama. — Salv. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1S70, p. 193. 



Dendrornis laivrencei Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. X, p. 509 

 (1SS7), ex Panama. — Sclat. Ibis, 1SS9, p. 353. 



Dendromis laivrencei costaricensis Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 

 X, p. 510 (18S7). — Sclat. Ibis, 1SS9, p. 353. 



Habitat. — Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Co- 

 lombia. 



Head and nape blackish brown, each feather with an apical pear-shaped 

 ochraceous spot, smallest on the forehead, becoming more elongated on 

 the nape. Back brownish olive, the upper part with narrow, lanceolate 

 dark buff stripes bordered with black; lower part of back, rump, tail and 

 wings cinnamon-red, the wings of a rather lighter color than the tail. 

 Throat pale buff, unspotted; cheeks pale buff, feathers edged with dark 

 brown; underparts pale yellow-olivaceous-brown, marked conspicuously 

 on the breast and lower part of neck with rather broad, deep but!" stripes, 

 edged with black; these stripes becoming narrower on lower breast, and 

 nearly obsolete on flanks and abdomen. Under tail-coverts washed with 

 rufous, more strongly defined in some specimens than in others. Maxilla 

 dark brown, mandible yellowish, brownish at the tip. Feet blackish 

 brown. Length, S| in. ; wing, 4^ in. ; tail, 4^, in. : bill, 1^ in. 



Specimen described from Lawrence collection, No. 43,274, Am. Mus. 

 Cat., from Panama, obtained by McLelland in 1862. 



The type of this species is before me, but being in moult with 

 the tail and wings not fully developed, I have taken another ex- 

 ample obtained in Panama at the same time, as the type of my de- 

 scription. A number of specimens are before me, seventeen iu 

 all, from all the localities of which it is stated to be an inhabitant, 

 among which are the types of D. lawrencei Ridgway and D. I. 

 costaricensis Ridgw. From an investigation of the labels, I find 

 the various specimens of D. nana have been referred to pardalo- 

 tus Vieill. and susurrans Jard., sometimes to both of these spe- 

 cies, and sometimes left undetermined. The throat entirely 

 unspotted, easily distinguishes this species from all its near allies, 

 and on comparison with a series of these, the different coloring 

 of the underparts with the shape and arrangement of the spots 

 make it readily recognizable. 



I Kegret to place as synonyms Mr. Ridgway's species and sub- 

 species from Panama and Costa Rica, as I can find no characters 

 to separate them from typical nana. Mr. Ridgway in his descrip- 



