Compendium der neu beschriebenen Gattungen und Arten. 109 



sous, qui dans la femelle est beaucoup plus jaune; la difference 

 de l'aile est de 8 mm. 



157. Spermophila palustris. 

 Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club Vol. 8 p. 92. 



Above, from bill to rump, clear bluish ash; below, froin bill 

 to middle of breast, including lower eyelid, earcoverts, and sides 

 of neck, pure white; rest of under parts, rump, and most of upper 

 tail-coverts, bright cinnamon-brown. Wings and tail brownish- 

 black edged with whitish; inner secondaries deep black, their tips 

 and outer edges broadly white (pure in highest plumage, at other 

 times soiled or even rusty) ; a white patch across the base of all 

 the primaries except the first two. Bill and feet black; iris dark. 

 Length about 4,50 inches; extent about 7,00; wing about 2,18; 

 tail about 1,70. 



$: Above, uniform greenish-olive obscurely streaked with dusky ; 

 below, light yellowish-buff; wing and tail nearly as in male but 

 duller, and the inner secondaries with narrower and more yellowish 

 edgings; white spot on primaries sarae as in male. Upper man- 

 dible brown, lower pale yellowish. Length 4,15 inches; extent 

 6,65; wing 2,07; tail 1,65. 



Hab.: Lower Uruguay. 



158. Spermopliila parva. 



G. N. Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sc. Vol. 2_p. 382. 



Upper plumage of a light, warm, earthy-brown, a little deeper 

 in color on the crown, and brighter under the eyes ; the throat is 

 grayish- white ; rest of the under parts of a very light shade of 

 brown, whitish on the middle of the abdomen; the smaller, and 

 middle wing-coverts are dark brown, the latter ending with 

 whitish; the larger coverts are also dark brown and margined 

 with whitish ; quills dark umber-brown ; the outer tertials edged 

 with light fulvous, the inner with whitish; tail, umber-brown, 

 ending with dull white ; iris brown ; bill light-brownish ; feet dark 

 grayish-ash. Length (skin) S-^/g inches; wing 2; tail P/g; tarsus 72- 



Hab. : Mexico, Tehuantepec City. Type in National Museum 

 Washington. 



4-159. Sycalis intermedia. 



J. Cabanis, Journ. Orn. 31. Jahrg. S. 216. 



Steht in der Mitte zwischen 8. brasiliensis Gm. und S. Pel- 

 zeini Sclat. Ist kleiner als erstere, aber grösser als letztere Art. 

 Das Hochgelb an der Oberseite des Kopfes scheint auf die Stirn 

 beschränkt zu sein. 



Hab. : Central- Argentinien, Küstengebiete nördlich bis Monte- 

 video. 



Farn. SYLVICOLIDäE. 



160. Anfhus Stejnegeri. 



R. Rigdway, Proc. Un. St. Nat. Mus. Vol. 6 p. 95. 



[Der Autor führt diese, von den Commandeur-Inseln stammende 

 Art zunächst als Änthus ja.ponicus Tem. und Schi, auf, schlägt 



