BULLETIN 



NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



VOL. VI. J ULY ? I obi. No. 3. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF FOUR NEW SPECIES OF 

 HAITIAN BIRDS. 



BY CHARLES B. CORY. 



Picumnus lawrencii. (Plate I.) 



$ ad. Tail soft, composed of ten feathers. General plumage above 

 olive-green. Forehead showing a tinge of black; top of the head bright 

 yellow, cut by a band of red, again becoming yellow at the base. Under 

 parts yellowish, palest on the throat, mottled and streaked with brown 

 feathers; on the sides of the neck marked with dull white, nearly joining 

 above, forming an imperfect collar. Wing-coverts and outer webs of 

 primaries and secondaries, olive-green ; inner webs brown, becoming pale 

 on the edges. Bill, legs, and feet dark slate color. Iris reddish brown. 



5 ad. Differs from the male in wanting the red band on the head. 



Length, 5.25; wing, 2.75; tail. 1.75 : tarsus, .56; bill. .62. 



Dr. Bryant refers to a Picumnus taken in Haiti (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist. Vol. XI, p. 96) but considers it to be P. microtncirus of Sundevall 

 (Consp. Avium Picin., 1S66, p. 95) ; but that species came from Brazil and 

 I cannot make his description agree with the Haitian bird. In all proba- 

 bility Dr. Brvant's specimen was the present species wrongly identified. 



I have named it in honor of Mr. Geo. N. Lawrence of New York. 



Phcenicophilus dommicensis. 



(J ad. Forehead and sides of the head black: a spot of white above 

 and below the eye and on each side of the forehead ; chin white, extend- 

 ing in two stripes down the sides of the throat to the breast, bordering the 

 black of the head. The rest of the head, neck, and underparts grayish- 

 plumbeous. Back, wing-coverts, tail and coverts, and outer edges of wing 



