1 88 Elliot on the Genus Dendrornis. [April 



Habitat. — Mexico, Jalapa (DeOca), Guatemala, Costa Rica, 

 Veragua (Salv.), Panama (Lion Hill, near Aspin wall, McLean- 

 nen), Chimbo, Ecuador (Stol/.mann). 



Top of head and nape olive brown, each feather with a small apical 

 light buff spot and a terminal blackish brown margin. Back olive brown 

 each feather with a conspicuous, rather elongated, bully white spot near 

 the tip. Lower back ami upper tail-coverts cinnamon-red. Throat och- 

 raceons, with a small dark olive spot at the tip of each feather, these spots 

 becoming terminal bars on the lower part of the throat. Entire under- 

 parts dark olive, with a large pale yellow ovate spot at the tip of each 

 leather. Wings and tail cinnamon, the tail slightly the darker in coloring. 

 Rill: maxilla dark brown ; mandible yellowish white. Feet black. Total 

 length, 9$ in.; wing, 4;,' in.; tail, 4^ in.; bill, i\ in. Ex Jalapa, Sp. 

 Other examples vary as follows: wing. .\^ to 4 in.: bill, i\ to 1 in. 



The range of this species, as defined by sonic writers, seems 

 peculiar. It goes from Mexico on the north (the type ami the 

 bird above described both having been procured at Jalapa) 

 through Guatemala, possibly Honduras and Nicaragua, although 

 1 have not seen specimens from those countries, and the Isthmus of 

 Panama, whence thoroughly typical specimens were obtained bv 

 McLeannen. The typical form does not seem to be found in Costa 

 Rica. It is apparently very distinct from D. triangularis, and 

 it is somewhat surprising that so keen an ornithologist as Lafres- 

 naye should not have perceived that he had two species before him. 



Dendrornis punctigula. 



Dendrornis punctigula Ridow. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. XI, p. 544 

 (iSSS).— Sclat. Ibis, 1889, p. 352. 



Habitat. — Costa Rica, Colombia, Truando (Schott). 



The only difference I can see between specimens from Costa 

 Rica and those of D. erythropygia from all localities, is that 

 the back is neatly uniform in its coloration with narrow whitish 

 yellow stripes on the upper portion instead of the conspicuous 

 spots seen on Sclatcr's species. My material is not sufficient (I 

 have only eleven specimens from Costa Rica), to enable me to 

 determine the value of the claim that this bird represents a dis. 

 tinct species. The fact that it is apparently surrounded by D. 

 eryt&ropygia on the north and south, and that it also appeals in 

 Colombia, as I have a specimen of the Costa Rican form from 

 Truando collected by Schott, would seem to indicate that it 



