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nigro terminatis : rostro et pedibus corylinis. Long, tota 7*5, alse 4*0, caudse 2-7, rostri a rictu 1-0, 

 tarsi I'O. (Descr. maris ex Chimalapa,- Tehuantepec. Mastr. nostr.) 



Hab. Mexico, Teotalcingo (Boucard^), Chimalapa, Tehuantepec (W. B. Richardson), 

 Northern Yucatan (Gaumer), Mugeres I., Meco I. off the coast of Yucatan 

 (Gaumer^); British Honduras, Orange Walk {Gaumer); Guatemala, Kancho 

 Tuilha on the Cahabon-Peten road, Choctum, Volcan de Agua above San Diego 

 {0. S. & F. D. G.); Nicaragua, Chinandega, and El Volcan near Chinandega 

 {W. B. Bichardson), Sucuya (Nutting ^°) ; Costa Rica {Carmiol), Navarro {J. 

 Cooper ^) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui [Arce ^). 



Bendrodncla homochroa was one of M. Boucard's discoveries ^, the first specimen 

 having been obtained by that traveller at Teotalcingo, a village on the eastern slope of 

 the mountains of the Mexican State of Oaxaca. As its name is not included by 

 Sumichrast in his list of the birds of Vera Cruz, and as none of our collectors who 

 have worked in that State have sent us specimens, we conclude that the bird is not 

 found to the northward of Teotalcingo. Southward of this place and over the whole 

 of the forest-region of Yucatan and Guatemala, on both sides of the Cordillera, it is to 

 met with pretty frequently. It occurs also in various parts of Nicaragua, on both 

 sides of the great lakes, and in Costa Eica and the adjoining district of Chiriqui. 



Whether the bird found at Panama is really distinct must remain for the present in 

 some doubt. No specimen of the large series of the more northern bird quite corre- 

 sponds with the type of B. rufieeps ; some equal it in size, and some have the head of 

 the same rufous tint, but none have so large a bill, and all are rather more rufescent 

 both above and below. 



B. homochroa is not unfrequently found in company with B. anabatina in some 

 numbers together picking ants from the trunks of the forest-trees. They are less 

 active than the other members of the climbing Dendrocolaptidae. 



3. Dendrocincla rufieeps. 



Dendrocincla, sp.?, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 320 ' ? 



Dendromanes homochrous, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 466 '' ? 



Dendrocincla rufieeps, Sel. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 54'; Sel. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv. p. 164*. 



Brunnescenti-olivacea : pileo, alis extus, efc cauda tota castaneis : subtus, praecipue in gula, paulo dilutior ; 

 remigum qiiinque externorum apieibus nigricantibus ; rostro corneo, pedibus corylinis. Long, tota 8-0, 

 alas 4-2, caudae 3-2, rostri a rictu 1-2, tarsi 0-9. (Descr. exempl. typ. ex Panama. Mus. Brit.) 



Hab. Yanama. (Chambers^). 



Mr. Eidgway includes all the birds found between Nicaragua and the line of the 

 Panama railway under the name Bendrodncla homochroa rufieeps ; but our series hardly 

 confirms this view, for amongst the specimens from Chinandega and its neighbourhood 

 are some not to be distinguished from the Mexican type, whilst others are darker. 

 Moreover, there is a considerable difference in size, the males being apparently a little 



