238 Messrs. Salvin and Godman on Mexican Birds. 



less amount of white behind the eye, the fawn-coloured 

 throat, and the ochraceous chest. 



The young birds, of which there are two in the collection, 

 have the head of nearly the same colour as the back, and 

 the marks round and below the eye are not nearly so well 

 defined. 



PiTYLUS CEL7EN0. 



Deppe's specimens of this species were obtained at Pap- 

 antla, and this was the only record (Biol. C.-A., Aves, i. p. 332, 

 pi. 24) we could find of its exact habitat. Godman secured 

 examples of both sexes near Misantla, and Richardson\s 

 collection contained many specimens both from Tarapico and 

 the eastern Sierra Mad re above Ciudad Victoria, between 

 which place and Montemorelos Armstrong also found it, 

 so that its northern range probably extends to the extreme 

 limits of the forest-clad slopes of this mountain range. 



Amphispiza quinquestriata. 



This beautiful species was hitherto only known to us from 

 a single specimen said to have been obtained in Mexico, but 

 the precise locality of which had not been recorded. Mr. 

 Lloyd has recently sent us a single female specimen from 

 Nuri in Sonora, shot on 22nd April, 1888. 



- Peuc^a cassini. 



When writing on this bird [torn. cit. p. 391) we were not 

 able to speak positively of its occurrence south of the Rio 

 Grande, but we now have a good seri(§S of examples from the 

 frontier States of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. 



• PEUCiEA MEGARHYNCHA, Sp. U. 



Supra brunnea; plumis omnibus medialiter rufescentibus, 

 rachidibus nigris ; capite summo castaneo medialiter 

 griseo intermixto ; loris albis ; capitis lateribus griseis : 

 subtus albida, hypochondriis et crisso pallide brunneis ; 

 stria utrinque mystacali nigra ; rostro nigri canti-plum- 

 beo, pedibus carneis : long, tota 6"0, alae 2*5, caudae 2"5, 

 rostri a rictu 0'65, tarsi 0'85. 

 Hub. Mexico, Santa Ana in Sonora [W. Lloyd). 

 Obs. P. boucardi proxima et affinis, sed rostro multo 



majore et colore suo plumbeo facile distinguenda. 



