18 DR. P. L. SCLATER ON SOME BIRDS FROM MEXxIco. [Jan. 28, 
2. On some Birps RECENTLY COLLECTED BY M. BoucarpD IN 
SournerN Mexico. By Puinie Luriey Scuater, M.A., 
Pu.D., F.R.S., SecRETARY TO THE SOCIETY. 
(Plate III.) 
I am again indebted to M. Auguste Sallé for his kindness in send- 
ing me for examination a series of 110 skins of birds, belonging to 
about 68 species, which he has selected, as likely to be of interest, 
out of the extensive collections lately forwarded to him by his 
correspondent, M. Adolphe Boucard, in Southern Mexico. The 
ground having been already so ransacked by M. Sallé himself, M. 
Boucard, Signor Botteri, and Sefior R. Montes de Oca (whose re- 
spective labours in Mexican ornithology I have already had, on seve- 
ral occasions, the pleasure of bringing before the notice of this 
Society), it is not to be expected that many novelties remain unga- 
thered. But there are, nevertheless, one striking new species and 
a few others of great interest among the present results of M. Bou- 
card’s recent explorations, concerning which I beg leave to offer the 
following remarks. 
1. HARPORHYNCHUS OCELLATUS, sp. nov. (PI. III.) 
Brunnescenti-cinereus, alis et cauda nigricantioribus, hwus rectri- 
cibus et illius tectricum apicibus albo terminatis: loris et regione 
oculari sordide albis: subtus albus, abdomine nigro conspicue 
ocellato, gutture puro immaculato, hypochondriis et capitis la- 
teribus paulum rufescentibus: rostro nigro, pedibus fusco-nigris. 
Long. tota 13:5, ale 4°1, caudee 5-6, rostri a rictu 1°5, tarsi 15 
poll. Angl. et dee. 
Hab. In Mex. merid., prov. Oaxaca. 
This fine bird is one of the most distinctly marked of the group 
to which it belongs. Whilst in colour it comes nearest to the 
recently discovered H. cinereus* of Lower California, in the shape 
of the bill it rather resembles H. curvirostris, and so serves to 
link together the two sections of the genus, as they are arranged in 
my ‘Synopsis of the Thrushes of the New World’+. The large 
round black spots on the clear white under-surface render it easily 
distinguishable from every known member of the group. The single 
example sent me by M. Sallé, which I have retained for my own 
collection, was procured at Oaxaca by M. Boucard in November 1860, 
and is marked “ male.” 
2. TROGLODYTES HYPAEDON, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 128. 
M. Boucard has sent examples of this species, which I have lately 
distinguished from the N. American 7. aédon, from Totontepec and 
Capulalpam, as also of T. brunneicollis, mihi (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 297), 
from La Parada. 
3. PoLIopriLa MEXICANA (Bp.). 
Males of this species have no appearance of the black frontlet, and 
* Xantus in Proc. Acad. Philad. 1859, p. 298. 
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