164 AntHony, New Birds from Lower California. ee, 
It might naturally be thought that our bird would be C. massazca 
of Fischer and Reichenow, which comes from the base of 
Kilimanjaro, but this species is said to be nearly related to C. 
natalensis; it is also considerably larger than C. szmz/is, and has 
the top of the head dark brown. 
The single male collected by Dr. Abbott is not quite adult, and 
a female has therefore been chosen for the type. 
10. Melanobucco abbotti, new species. 
Type.—No. 117957, U. S. N. M.; female, adult, Plains of Taveita, 
July 22, 1888. 
Entire head, nape, sides of neck, throat, breast, upper portion of abdo- 
men, under tail-coverts, rump, upper tail-coverts, and entire tail (even 
concealed portion of base) white, with a faint sulphur yellow tinge on 
the rump, breast and upper abdomen; sides of breast, sides of body, 
lower abdomen, and flanks, brownish black, most of the feathers 
with whitish tips or triangular shaft spots of the same color. Scapulars 
brownish black, with whitish triangular shaft streaks; back and wings 
brownish black, the feathers of the former and of the wing-coverts and 
tertiaries faintly tipped with whitish or pale brown; thighs white, with 
a slight admixture of brown; under wing-coverts dark brown, with a 
slight mottling of white; axillaries dark brown; under surface of wings 
dusky brown, the inner webs of the wing feathers (except first primary) 
with basal half or more edged with white. Wing, 3.90 inches; tail, 2.26; 
tarsus, .g8; culmen, 1.02. 
This bird is closely related to both J/. albicauda and M. senex, 
but differs from the former in having a white breast and white 
tail (even to the base), and from the latter in the blackish brown 
abdomen, sides of body, and scapulars. ‘The three species appear 
to have the same dimensions. 
NEW BIRDS FROM THE ISLANDS AND PENINSULA 
OF LOWER CALIFORNIA. 
BY A. W. ANTHONY. 
THE past summer a small collection of birds was made by the 
writer, assisted by Mr. Horace Gaylord, along the west coast of 
