1S90.] Elliot on the Genus Dendrornis. I 79 



Dryocof>usflavigaster Df.s Murs, Icon. Ornith. Text. (iS-jq). 

 Dendrornis eburneirostris Sclat. Cat. Am. B. p. 164, sp. ion (1862). — 



Bouc. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S83, p. 450. 

 Nasiea /lavigaster L.PLeK. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1S50, p. 2S3. 

 Dendrornis mentalis Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. Vol. VIII, 1867, p. 4S1. 



Habitat. — Mexico, Yucatan, Guatemala, Honduras, Nica- 

 ragua, Costa Rica. 



Top of head and nape black; the centre of each feather with a pale buff 

 stripe, widest at the tip, very small on the forehead, where it is merely an 

 apical spot, larger and broader on the nape. Back light rufous, with 

 broad pale buff or buffy white stripes margined with black. Rump and 

 upper tail-coverts cinnamon, darkest on tail-coverts. Wings cinnamon, 

 tail cinnamon-red, considerably darker than the wings. Throat buffy white 

 without spots in adults ; in some specimens the feathers of lower part of 

 throat are edged with dark brown. Underparts grayish olive with con- 

 spicuous broad, pale buff stripes margined with black, largest and most 

 numerous on upper part of breast, becoming narrower on flanks and lower 

 part of breast and indistinct on abdomen and vent. On either side of 

 throat is a more or less distinct black line sometimes extending from base 

 of mandible to lower part of the throat, in other examples again only 

 seen on a portion of the lateral part of the throat. Bill white, dark brown 

 in some specimens on the basal portion. Feet brownish black. 



Description taken from an example from Orizaba, No. 31,737, Museum 

 Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. Total length, 10^ in. ; wing, 

 4! in. ; tail , 4! in. ; bill, if in. 



Other specimens vary as follows: Wing, 4^, — 4111.; tail, \% — -3^ in. ; 

 bill, it? — \\ in. 



Sixty specimens of this species are before me from nearly all 

 the localities in which it is stated to dwell, among them being the 

 types of Lafresnaye's I). albirostris, a MS. name, and Lawrence's 

 />. mentalis from Mazatlan. The latter is a light colored speci- 

 men, that is possibly seasonal, as other specimens from Mazatlan* 

 are as dark colored as those from various other localities, and it is 

 impossible to separate them from specimens obtained at Orizaba, 

 and Tampico in Mexico, and other places in Guatemala, Hon- 

 duras, etc. The stripes on the back vary in width in different 

 specimens, even from the same locality, and this has no specific 

 value, aTul I can perceive nothing in the large series at my com- 

 mand to indicate that there is more than one species of this form. 



* Specimen 58,237, National Museum, from Mazatlan. Back olivaceous brown. 

 Stripes rusty buff. 



