54 LAWRENCE ox Sforophila morellet? sharpet. {January 
identical with my S. farva from Western Mexico (Ann. N. Y. 
Acad. Sciences, Vol. II, p. 382), and as it could not retain the 
name of adzgular¢s, placed it under S. parva. 
With his determination I cannot agree, and am sustained in my 
opinion by all our ornithologists to whom the specimens have 
been submitted. 
Besides being from very different localities, the two species 
appear to differ as stated below. The type of S. parva being a 
female, I have made the comparison with specimens of that sex. 
Four fine female specimens from Lomita, Texas, kindly loaned 
me by Mr. G. B. Sennett, are all at first sight larger in appear- 
ance than S. parva, though the wings of each species are of the 
same size; the wing-coverts of S. skarpfez are whitish at their 
ends, forming two decided bars across the wings, whereas in S. 
parva only the middle coverts end in whitish, though more nar- 
rowly, and the greater coverts have their sides and ends margined 
with duller white; in S. farva the tertiaries are more conspicu- 
ously margined with dull white than those of S. sharpez; the 
upper plumage of S. Jarva is of a warm light brown, that of 
S. shurpet being decidedly ash-colored; the entire under plu- 
mage of the latter is of a light fulvous color, that of S. parva 
being whitish with just a tinge of fulvous on the breast; the taie 
of S. parva is shorter and the feathers are much broader; the 
bill of S. Aarva is lighter in color than that of S. sharped. 
The most mature males of S. skarpe? are grayish above, with 
the crown and sides of the head black, and the back blotched with 
black ; the under parts are pale fulvous white with an indistinct 
collar of black, though this latter character is seen in but few 
specimens. 
In the true S. morellet¢ the upper plumage is jet black, with 
the rump more conspicuously pale fulvous, than in S. sharpez; 
the under plumage is light fulvous, with a strongly marked black 
collar across the lower part of the throat and the upper part of 
the breast. Types in American Museum of Natural History, 
New York. In my opinion the Texas bird requires to be named, 
and I have conferred upon jt that of my friend, Mr. R. B. Sharpe, 
as he is the only one who has recognized it as being distinct from 
S. morellett Bp., based on Guatemalan specimens. 
