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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TITTRA FROM WEST- 

 ERN MEXICO. 



BY ROBERT RIDGWAY. 



Tityra personata griseiceps Riucw. 



Tityra personata Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. II, pt. iii, No. j, 1874, ::S9 

 (Mazatlan and Sierra Madre of Coliina) ; «ec Jakd. iV Sklhv. 



SuBSP. Char. — Similar to true T. personata, but female much paler 

 and grayer, with pileum and sides of head pale brownish ash-gray, Ixeotn- 

 ing lighter anteriorly, instead of deep brownish gray or grayish brow n 

 abruptly contrasted with white of throat; chin without trace of grayish 

 or dusky. 



Hab. — Western Mexico (Mazatl.m and Sierra Madrc of Colima). 



Type. No. 58,235,11. S. Nat Mus., ? ad., Mazatlan ; Col. A. J. Graysf)n. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF HUMMING- 

 BIRD OF THE GENUS AGTRTRIA. 



BY D. G. ELLIOT, F. R. S. E. 



Agyrtria alleni, sp. nov. 



Top of head and occiput dark greenish blue, not metallic; nape, back 

 and shoulders, shining grass-green ; rump and upper tail-coverts glitter- 

 ing bronze. Tail shining bronze, with the tips of the feathers pale grav, 

 widest on the outermost rectrices, and diminishing to the central ones 

 which have a mere indication of gray at the tip. Wings purplish brown. 

 Sides of neck shining bluish green. Throat and centre of breast white, 

 speckled with shining green; sides of breast and flanks metallic grass- 

 green. Abdomen whitish. Under tail-coverts pale brown, edged wilh 

 white. Maxilla black, mandible fl«sh color, tip black, Feet black. 



Total length, 3 1-2 in. ; wing, i 7-S in. ; tail, i 7-16 in. ; bill, 3-4 in. 



Hab. — Yungas, Bolivia. (Rusby. ) 



Type, No. 30,784, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. 



A single specimen of the bii'd described above was contained 

 in a small collection of birds brought from Bolivia by Dr. H. II. 

 Rusby and purchased by the American Museum of Natural His- 



