382 Recently jmblished Ornithological Works. 



Cauda dorso concoloribus, hujus rectricibus mediis ad 

 apicem et rhachide tota nigris, rectricibus lateralibus 

 obsolete fusco transfasciatis, illis interne flavis immacu- 

 latis; genis et tectricibus auricularibus albidis cinereo 

 teuuiter fasciatis : subtus oleagineuSj fasciis pallide viridi- 

 albicantibus hastatiformibus vittatus, gula cinerea albo 

 punctata^ stria malari sanguinea. Long, tota 8*0, alse 

 4*6, caudse 2*65, rostri a rictu 1-1^ tarsi 0"7 poll. Angl. 

 Hab. Xautipa, Sierra Madre del Sur in the State of Guer- 

 rero [Mrs. H. H. Smiili). 



A very distinct and interesting species, of which Mrs. Smith 

 obtained a single adult male specimen in July 1888, at the 

 above-mentioned locality. 



This Woodpecker resembles C. (sruginosus in the form of 

 the hastate bands of the under surface, but comes closer to 

 C. yucatanensis in the barred rump. It differs from both 

 these species in the absence of the red nuchal patch and red 

 supercilium of both those species (this sexual character being 

 restricted to the malar region) , and in the banded ear-coverts, 

 which in the adult of the allied species are uniform. 



XXXVIII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued from p. 256.] 



69. Brewster on new Birds from Western North America 



and Mexico. 



[Descriptions of supposed new Birds from Western Nortli America and 

 Mexico. By William Brewster. The Auk, vol, y'l. p. 85.] 



Mr. Brewster describes as new species and subspecies 

 Psittacula cyanopyg a pallida, from Sonora; Empidonax pul- 

 verius, from Chihuahua; E. griseus, from Lower California; 

 Melospiza lincolni striata, from British Columbia ; Euphonia 

 godmani, allied to E. minuta, from the coast region of 

 Western Mexico ; Progne subis hesperia, founded on differ- 

 ences in the female sex only, the males being identical, from 

 California ; Compsothlypis pulchra, from Chihuahua ; Den- 

 droica nigrifrons, from Chihuahua ; Thryophilus sinaloa cine- 

 reus, from Sonora ; and Polioptila nigriceps restricta, from 

 Sonora. 



