PROCEEDINGS 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 10, 186". 



A. R. Wallace, Esq., F.Z.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. P. L. Sclater exhibited some specimens of birds from the 

 recent collections of M. Adolphe Boucard, C.M.Z.S., in Southern 

 Mexico*, and pointed out the characters of a new species of Finch, 

 of which examples had been obtained by M. Boucard in the vicinity 

 of La Puebla. This was proposed to be called 



— ZoNOTRiCHiA BorcARDi, sp. nov. (Plate I.) 



Supra cinerea, plumis medialiter brunneis cinereo late marginatis; 

 pileo fere otnnino rufo, cinereo paulum mixto; linea superciliari 

 ante oculos et ciliis oculorum albis : genis et cervicis lateribus 

 pure cinereis : remigibus et rectricibus intus nigricantibiis, ex- 

 tus brunnescenti-cinereo marginatis, alarum secundariis colore 

 magis brunnescente et latins marginatis ; tectricibus extus dorso 

 fere concoloribus : subtus albicanti-cinerea, gutture toto albo, 

 striga utrinque nigra ; ventre medio lactescenti-albo, utrinque 

 cum crisso fulvescente tincto : rostro superiore nigra, inferior e 



* See P. Z. S, 1865, p. 397. 

 Proc, Zool. Soc. — lfi57, No. I. 



