18 dr. p, l. scla.ter on some birds from mexico. [jail. 28, 



2. On some Birds recently Collected by M. Boucard in 

 Southern Mexico. By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., 

 Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. 



(Plate III.) 



I am again indebted to M. Auguste Salle 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. Salle himself, M. 

 Boucard, Signor Botteri, and Seiior 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 nigricantiorihus, hujus rectri- 



cibus et illius tectricum apicibus alho terminatis : loris et regione 

 oculari sordide albis : subtus albiis, abdomine nigro conspicue 

 ocellato, gutture puro immaculato, hypochondriis et capitis la- 

 teribus paulum rufescentibus : rostro nigro, pedibus fusco-nigris. 

 Long, tota 13*5, alee 4*1, caudse S'G, rostri a rictu TS, tarsi 1*5 

 poll. Angi. et dec. 



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' f. 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. Salle, which I have retained for my own 

 collection, was procured at Oaxaca by M. Boucard in November 1860, 

 and is marked "male." 



2. Troglodytes hypae don, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 128. 

 M. Boucard has sent examples of this species, which I have lately 



distinguished from the N. American T. aedon, from Totontepec and 

 Capulalpam, as also of T. brunneicollis, mihi (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 297), 

 from La Parada. 



3. POLIOPTILA MEXICANA (Bp.). 



Males of this species have no appearance of the black frontlet, and 



* Xantus in Proc. Acad. Philad. 1859, p. 298. 

 t P. Z. S. 1859, p. 339. 



