328 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON NEW AMERICAN BIRDS. [May 12, 
6. Notices of some new or little-known Species of South- 
American Birds. By P. L. Scuarer, M.A., Ph.D., 
F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. 
I beg leave to offer to the Society some remarks on new or rare 
American birds that have lately come before me, including the de- 
scription of the fine new Woodpecker of the genus Melanerpes. 
The species of which I have to speak are four in number, namely :— 
1. THRYOTHORUS RUFIVENTRIS. 
Thryothorus rufiventris, Natt. MS. 
Thryothorus galbraithi, Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 47. 
Murino-brunneus, uropygio rufescente lavato: alis extus et cauda 
nigro distincte transfasciatis ; superciliis elongatis, albis ; re- 
gione auriculari alba nigro striato: subtus gutture albo, abdo- 
mine rufescente, medialiter paulo dilutiore: long. tota 5:0, 
ale 2°6, caude \°7, rostri a rictu ‘85 poll. Angl. 
Hab. Brasil. prov. Goiaz et Matto-Grosso (Natt.). 
Similis 7’. longirostri, sed rostro breviore, rectiore, et colore cor- 
poris supra minus rufescente distinguendus. 
Herr von Pelzeln has referred this Wren, of which I have a single 
Nattererian specimen, received in exchange from the Imperial Cabi- 
net, to Thryothorus galbraithi of Lawrence. But the latter bird, of 
which I possess several Panama examples, is in my opinion nothing 
more than a slight local form of Thryothorus leucotis, Lafr. (7. 
albipectus of my American Catalogue), a wide-ranging Guianan and 
Amazonian species. I have examined skins of it from Cayenne, the 
Island of Marajo, near Para (Wallace), the Ucayali, Bogota, and 8. 
Martha, New Granada. I cannot distinguish between those from 
the last-named locality and Fraser’s specimens from Western Ecua- 
dor and the Panama bird, upon which Mr. Lawrence’s name gal- 
braithi was founded, aud regard the examples from all the localities 
above mentioned as referable to the same species. 
Under these circumstances, I propose to restore to the present 
bird (which is wholly distinct from 7’. /eucotis, and much more 
nearly allied to J. /ongirostris) the name by which it was desig- 
nated in Natterer’s MS. 
2. PHILYDOR CONSOBRINUS, Sp. nov. 
Supra brunneus, pileo toto cum fronte et cauda tota castaneo- 
rufis, pileo paulo obscuriore: alis nigricantibus, extus rufo, 
dorso fere concolori, marginatis, intus, precipue ad basin, cum 
subalaribus pallide castaneis: subtus magis dilute brunneus, 
lateraliter obscurior, in pectore et gutture medio dilutior : ros- 
tro nigricante, mandibula versus apicem corylina : pedibus fu- 
scis: long. tota, 7:0, ale 3:4, caude rectr. ext. 2°3, med. 3:1, 
tarst 1°85, rostri a rictu 1:0. 
Hab. in Nova Granada int. 
