Miscellaneous. 280 



tnfjinpce to elaborate anew, he should not hesitate to redncc con- 

 siderably the number of species, " and perhaps to refer some entire 

 sections to a single specific type." Perhaps even the greater part 

 of two sections, we may add ; for of two sections in the ' Prodromus,* 

 one is founded ujion substerile and the other upon truly fertile forms 

 of the same species, or set of species : and in another part of the 

 genus, one wide-spread American species figures under at least a 

 dozen names. — Asa Gray, in SiUlman s American Journal, J an. 1858, 



Description of a neto Genus and some new species of American Birds. 

 By P. L. ScLATF.n, M.A., F.L.S. &c. 



Neochloe, gen. nor. 



Neochloe (/enus novum Vireoni affine, sed ad Sylvicolam et hujus- 

 modi yenera sjiectans. Rostrum rnagis carinatum, basi latiore, 

 apice mayis acuta : alee breves, qiiadratce, remiye prima brevi, 

 secundu longiore, (ptarta, rpiinfa, sexta et septima fere cequali- 

 bus et tertiam jiaulo superanfibus ; secundariis lonyis et pri- 

 mariam tertiam excedentibus : pedes ut in yenere Vireone. 



Neochloe brevipennis. 



N. cinereus, dorso murino et viridi jjaululum lavato : capite toto 

 supero cum maryinibus alarum et caudce favicanti-viridibxis ; re- 

 miyibus et recfricibus intus niyricanti-cinereis : abdomine medio 

 crissoque albis. 

 Long, tota j'O, alee 2*2, caudpe 2*1. 



Of this little bird must, I think, be constituted a third genus of 

 T'ireonince ; the peculiar form of the wing rendering it impossible to 

 arrange it as either a Fireo or Vireosylvia. It has much of the 

 general form of a small species of the former genus, but is readily 

 separable by the short and square wing, all the secondaries (except 

 the three outer) exceeding the second primary in length. 



M. Botteri's collection contains one example of this bird (num- 

 bered 277), which is labelled "Orizaba, 8 Oct. 1850." 



ZONOTRICHIA BOTTERII. 



Supra ex cinereo rufescens, capitis et dorsi medii pennis media- 

 liter fusco-niyris,harum uutem maryinibus rufescentibus, colore 

 nifescente fusco viixtis : alis niyricantibus, tectricibus omnibus 

 pallido fusco late, remiyibus rufo anyuste, extus limbatis : 

 Cauda yraduata, niyricante ; rectricum externarum apicibus 

 vulde dilutiorihus, pallide cinereis : subtus albidus, pectore 

 cinerasceiitiore, yula clariore, pireecipue ad latera rufescente 

 irroratus : carpo Jiavicante : alis et cauda subtus cinereis : 

 rostro phnnbeo ; tomiis pallidioribus : pedibus flavis. 



Long, tota (»"0, altE2"5, caudce 2'G. 



I have in vain attempted to identify this bird with any of the 

 known species of N. American Zonotriehlce, and am forced to the 

 conclusion that it is probably uudescribed. It comes nearer to Z, 



