220 rOEMICAEIIDJ<:. 



' p. 383*; Ibis, 1883, p. 95 '; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv. p. 261"; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, 

 p. 399"; P.Z. S. 1864, p. 356 ^ 1879, p. 525'; Lawr, Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. pp. 6", 

 183 " ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 145 " ; 1870, p. 195 " ; Ibis, 1869, p. 319 " ; Nutting, Pr. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. pp. 386 ", 405 "; Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 581 ". 



Supra cinereus, eapite summo et nucha cum alis- extus leviter rufescente tinctis, capitis lateribus et corpore 

 toto subtus (gu]a alba excepta) pallide rufis ; caiida rigricante, rectricibus tribus externis (extima rhachide 

 et pogonio externo fere tota alba) albo terminatis ; subalaribus albidis rufescente lavatis : rostro corj"lino, 

 mandibula pallida, pedibus plumbeis. Long, tota 4'8, alae 2-0, caudae rectr. med. l"7o, rectr. lat. 1*2, 

 rostri a rictu 1'2, targi 0-9. (Descr. maris ex V. de San Miguel, Salvador. Mus. nostr.) 



5 mari simUis. 



Jffab. Mexico, Vera Cruz {W. B. Bichardson), San Andres Tuxtla {Salle % Playa 

 Vicente {Boucard ^) ; British Hondueas, Orange Walk (Gcmmer) ; Guatemala 

 (Velasquez'^), Choctum ^, Chisec, Lanquin ^, Eetalhuleu (0. S. & F. I). G.); 

 Honduras, Truxillo (Townsend ^'^) ; Salvador, La Libertad, Volcan de San Miguel 

 {W. B. Bichardson); Nicaragua, Chinandega (W. B. Bichardson), Sucuya ^^, Los 

 Sabalos ^^ (Nutting), Greytown [Holland ^^) ; Costa Kica, Bebedero de Nicoya 

 [Arce 14) ; Panama, Bugaba i^, Santa Fe 12, Calobre is {Arce), Lion Hill (M'Lean- 

 nan ^ i**). — Colombia ^. 



The first specimens of this bird that reached Europe were those obtained by Col. 

 Velasquez in Guatemala, and described by Prince Bonaparte in 1837 1. The bird is 

 now known as an inhabitant of the hot forest region of the whole of Central America, 

 beyond which area it reaches the middle of the Mexican State of Vera Cruz in one 

 direction and the northern part of Colombia in the other, being nearly everywhere 

 tolerably abundant. It is absent from Western Mexico, but occurs on both sides of 

 the mountain-range of Guatemala. It is only in Costa Eica that this bird seems to be 

 rare, for though Ave have a specimen from Bebedero in that country 1*, it appears from 

 Mr. Zeledon's most recent list of the birds of Costa Rica that only a Guatemala 

 example of B. rujiventris exists in the National Museum of Costa Rica. 



Mr. Nutting 1^ 1^ obtained his specimens in dense forest, and he tells us that these 

 birds climb about trees like Nuthatches (Sitta). Salmon says ^ that the iris in life is 

 red, and that this bird feeds on insects and builds its nest in low bushes. He does 

 not, however, tell us how the latter is constructed, nor give us any information about 

 the eggs. 



Stolzmann, writing of the closely allied B. albiventris, says that the only specimen 

 he shot at Yurimaguas was in the top of a low tree in the forest, its movements 

 recalling those of a Polioptila. 



