360 FEINGILLIDJE. 



Supra oUvacea ; vertice antico, genis et pectore toto nigris, stria superciliari a naribus ducta et gula Isete flavis ;: 

 abdomine fusco, orisso olivaceo intermixto ; nostro nigro, pedibus corylinis. Long, tota 4-0, alae 2"0, 

 caudse 0-7, tarsi 0"6. (Descr. maris ex Paraiso, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 



2 olivaoea, subtus paUidior et fusco lavata, gula et abdomine medio sordide albicantibus. (Deser. feminse ex 

 Sarchi, Costa Eica, Smiths. Inst. no. 41,387. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. Mexico 2 23 24^ Temiscaltepec, Eeal del Monte (Bullock^), valley of Mexico 

 {White '^), Cor Aoya (SallS^), Jalapa (Pease ^^, de Oca% Orizaba (Sumickrast ^^), 

 Totontepec (Boucard ^), Dondominguillo [Swmichrast ^^), Merida in Yucatan 

 (Schott ^% Gaumer ^^) ; Guatemala, Sakluk near Peten (0. S.^^) ; Costa Eica (v.. 

 Frantzius^ ^^), San Jose {v. Frantzius^, Carmiol ^^), S&xchi (Clfl!/'m«oP), Turrialba, 

 (ArcS); PAifAMA, Chitra", Santa Fe^^ (ArcS), Lion Hill {M'Leannan^ ^% Paraiso 

 Station {SugJies). — Colombia ^^ 20_ 



The little species was first sent from Mexico by Bullock \ and it has since been 

 found over the greater part of Southern Mexico, being common in the valley of 

 Orizaba up to an elevation of 4600 feet ^^. These Mexican specimens have the darkest 

 heads, cheeks, and under plumage of any of our series. In Yucatan and thence 

 southwards through Peten, Costa Eica, the State of Panama, and Colombia individuals 

 have slightly more olivaceous cheeks, and the black of the head is more restricted ; they 

 thus approach the Cozumel bird, where these characters become more definite, these 

 last-named birds forming a step towards the Antillean P. olivaoea. We doubt, how- 

 ever, if the links connecting aU these birds together exist, though in all probability the 

 continental ones belong to one somewhat variable but indivisible species. 



Salmon found P. pusilla breeding in the Colombian State of Antioquia, the eggs 

 being white, marked, especially at the larger end, with brown spots ^^. 



In Guatemala P. pusilla must be considered a rare bird ; we ourselves only once met 

 with it in the savana of Sakluk near Peten ^^. 



2. Fhouipara intermedia. 



Phonipara pusilla, Salv. Ibis, 1885, p. 190'. 



Euetheia olivacea intermedia, Ridgw. Descr. Cozumel B.p. 2 '; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. viii.p. 568'. 



P.pusUlce affinissima. Bed pUeo dorso concolori, fronte stricte nigra, regione parotica olivacea a gula flava lineola 

 nigra bene definita separata, forsan distinguenda. 



Hab. Mexico, Cozumel Island ofi' the coast of Yucatan (Benedict ^ ^, Devis ^, Gaumer). 



Mr. Gaumer has recently sent us a good series of specimens of this bird, which is 

 certainly intermediate between P. pusilla on the one hand, and P. olivacea on the 

 other. The difiierences from the latter consist in its larger blacker bUl and the darker- 

 upper surface. At present it is only known from Cozumel, where it has been found by 

 all the collectors who have recently visited that island. 



