Mr. P. L. Sclater on new Mexican Birds. 421 



aim crisso rosaceo-coccineis : lateribus postice albis : alls cauda- 

 que nigrkantibus, plumbeo extus marginutis : rostro crasso, puu- 

 lulum incurvo, nigricanti-plumbeo ; vibrissis fere nullis : pedibus 

 pallide briinneis. 

 Long, tota 5-2, alee 24, caudse 2-3. 

 Salle,, no. 129. Cordova. 



This very pretty bird, of which M. Salle only procured a single 

 specimen, is, I think, upon reconsideration hardly to be placed in the 

 genus Setophaga, although so closely resembling many species of 

 that genus in its style of colouring. The bill is quite diflFerent from 

 that "of Setophaga, and is more like that of Nemosia, being even 

 thicker than in some species of the latter form, but rather more in- 

 curved. The characters given by Prince Bonaparte for his genus 

 Granatellus (founded upon a bird figured in an unpublished plate of 

 DuBus' Esquisses Ornithologiques) seem to agree better with this 

 bird, and from the description of the only species of that genus 

 (which I have never seen) I cannot help thinking that it may have 

 something to do with the present bird. I therefore place them for 

 the present in the same genus. 



9. PaRUS MERIDIONALIS. 



Supra cinereus : alls caudaque nigrkantibus brunnescenti-cinereo 

 limbatis : piko toto cum nucha, gutture et cervice antica nigerri- 

 mis : genis et capite laterali albis : abdomine cinereo brunnescente 

 tincto ; pectore et ventre medio albidis : rostro nigro : pedibus 

 plumbeis. 



Long, tota 4-8, alse 2-65, caudse 2-3. 



Salle, no. 167. El Jacale. 



This Titmouse is a very close ally of P«/-«<^ atricapUlus and Parus 

 carolinensis. I am sorry I have not been able to compare it with 

 authentic specimens of those species, but, as far as I can judge from 

 Mr. Cassin's excellent synopsis of American Parinae given in his 

 ' Birds of Cahforuia,' it would appear — as by the locahty it comes 

 from would seem most probable — to be distinct from either of those 

 species. 



From P. carolinensis it appears to differ in its greater size, being 

 nearly half an inch longer than the dimensions assigned to that bird 

 by Mr. Cassia. It would hardly seem likely that it is the same as 

 P. atricapUlus, which is an inhabitant of the more northern states 

 of the Union, and the slightly inferior size and white medial line 

 on the lower parts seem to distinguish it from that species. 



10. FORMICARILS MONILIGER. 



Supra brunnescenti-olivaceus, colli lateribus et uropygio rufescen- 

 tioribus, pileo nigricantiore : macula in loris triangulari alba : 

 gutture toto nigro, infra vitta aiigusta rufa cincta : abdomine toto 

 nigricanti-griseo, lateribus et crisso olivaceo perfusis : regione 

 oculari nuda : tectricibus subalaribus ochraccis, nigro variegatis : 

 caudce parte apicali nigra : rostro nigro : pedibus dare brunneis. 



Salle, no. 105, (? et 9 similes. Cordova. 



