398 FEING-ILLID^. 



The term melanotis given to this species by Mr. Lawrence cannot unfortunately be 

 retained, for it has been previously applied to H. rufescens by Bonaparte, who called 

 that bird Geospizopsis melanotis. This being the case, we have introduced Lichten- 

 stein's undefined name acuminata, which is attached to the label of a specimen in the 

 Sclater collection derived from the Berlin Museum. 



B. Caput stria verticali nulla, superciliis elongatis nullis, loris tantum albis. 



7. Haemophila humeralis. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 1.) 



HcsmopMla humeralis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 132 \ 

 Amphispiza ferrariperezi, Ridgw. Auk, iii. p. 332°. 



Supra dorso medio rufescente-fusco guttulato, capite summo et cervice postica obscure mgricante-cinerea, dorso 

 postico rufescente-fusco, alls et cauda fusco-nigricantibus, iUis et tectricibus suis albido limbatis, scapulari- 

 bus pure rufis ; fronte, capitis lateribus et torque pectorali nigris ; loris, stria utrinque mystacali, gnla et 

 abdomine medio albis, hypochondriis paUide cinerascentibus ; rostri maxilla nigricante, mandibula pallida, 

 pedibus corylinis. Long, tota 6-0, alse 2'5, caudaB 2'8, rostri a rictu 0-6, tarsi 0-85. (Descr. exempl. ex 

 Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. Mexico ^ {Boucard), Chietla, State of Puebla {Diaz ^). 



We know very little of this well-marked species, which was described by Prof. 

 Cabanis from Mexican specimens as long ago as 1851. No mention is made of it in 

 any of Mr. Sclater's lists of the collections of Salle, Boucard, and others ; nor does 

 Sumichrast ever seem to have met with it. We have a single example furnished us 

 by M. Boucard, but without special locality. 



Mr. Ridgway has recently described a Mexican Finch under the name of Amphispiza 

 ferrariperezi ^, and he kindly sent us a photograph of the types (male and female). We 

 have no difficulty in recognizing them as representing Hcemophila humeralis. These 

 birds are now in the National Museum of Mexico, and were obtained near Chietla 

 in the State of Puebla, and are the only examples we know the precise locality of 

 which has been recorded. 



Mr. Eidgway compares the bird with Amphispiza quinguestriata, but its relationship 

 certainly lies with Hcemophila mystacalis. 



Our figure is taken from a bird in our collection, probably a female. The male, of 

 which there is an example in the British Museum, has the head of a more uniform 

 black. 



8. Hsemophila mystacalis. 



Zonotrichia mystacalis, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1852, p. 3' ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 305 '; 1859, p. 379'; 

 Lawr. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 21 \ 



H. hwmerali simiUs, capite summo cinereo nigro striate, subtus gula antica nigra nee alba, cervicis lateribus et 

 pectore toto cinereis nee nigris, inter alia prime visu distinguenda. (Descr. maris ex Oaxaca, Mexico. 

 Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. Mexico ^ ^, Tehuacan {Sumichrast ^), Oaxaca {Boucard ^). 



