i8SS.] Allen on a Nc-jj Tityra. Z^>1 



A. m. sennetti. Juv. in first plumage: — Prevailiiii^ color above gray- 

 brown, streaked with black, broadly so on the interscapiiluni. Below 

 pale fnlvous white, strongest on sides of neck, jugulum, and flanks, where 

 also sparsely streaked with black. (One specimen. No. 4956, Coll. G. B. 

 Sennett — Corpus Christi, Texas, June 14, 1SS7.) 



The name poiirisnlce was given to Scott's vScaside Sparrow 

 betbre the Louisiana material came to hand. I'he name is thus 

 not happily cliosen, as the form is doiiI)tless locally common 

 along not only tlie Gulf coast of Florida, hut westward at least 

 to Western Lotiisiana. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS 

 TITTRA, FROM ECUADOR. 



BY J. A. ALLEN. 



A SMALL collection of birds, collected maiidy in the vicinity of 

 Qtiito, Ecuador, was recently purchased of Mr. Ludovic Soder- 

 strom by the American Museum of Natural History. It con- 

 tains a number of rare species, and others of special interest foi 

 the locality of their capture ; an annotated list of the collection 

 will be given later in anotlier connection. It contained four 

 specimens of Tityra^ two of which are referable to T. personata ; 

 one of these has much more than the usual amoimt of white in 

 the tail — thus approaching T. semifasciata — and the other very 

 much less than the normal amoimt. One of the other specimens 

 I refer with hesitation to T. albitorqiics^ from which it differs 

 in tiie small amount of white at the base of the tail, there 

 being little more tiian is seen in T. inqiiisltrix. This specimen 

 thus has the head-markings of T. albitorqjtes and nearly the 

 tail of T. iuquisitrix. The fourth specimen is so different from 

 any of the described species of this genus that I venture to char- 

 acterize it as new. 



Tityra nigriceps, sp. nov. 



Sp. Char. Adult $ : — Similar to T. personata, but with the whole 

 head and throat black, and the white at the base of the tail restricted to 

 the extreme base of the feathers, which are rnerely white centrally for 



