BULLETIN 
OF THE 
NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 
VOL. VI. JULY, 1881. No. 3. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF FOUR NEW SPECIES OF 
HAITIAN BIRDS. 
BY CHARLES B. CORY. 
Picumnus lawrencii. (Plate I.) 
$ ad. Tail soft, composed of ten feathers. General plumage above 
olive-green. Forehead showing a tinge of black ; top of the head bright 
yellow, cut by a band of red, again becoming yellow at the base. Under 
parts yellowish, palest on the throat, mottled and streaked with brown 
feathers; on the sides of the neck marked with dull white, nearly joining 
above, forming an imperfect collar. Wing-coverts and outer webs of 
primaries and secondaries, olive-green ; inner webs brown, becoming pale 
on the edges. Bill, legs, and feet dark slate color. Iris reddish brown. 
$ ad. Differs from the male in wanting the red band on the head. 
Length, 5.25; wing, 2.75; tail, 1.75; tarsus, .56; bill. .62. 
Dr. Bryant refers to a Picumnus taken in Haiti (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 
Hist. Vol. XI, p. 96) but considers it to be P. micromegus of Sundevall 
(Consp. Avium Picin., 1866, p. 95) ; but that species came from Brazil and 
I cannot make his description agree with the Haitian bird. ' In all proba- 
bility Dr. Bryant’s specimen was the present species wrongly identified. 
I have named it in honor of Mr. Geo. N. Lawrence of New York. 
Phoenicophilus dominicensis. 
3 ad. Forehead and sides of the head black ; a spot of white above 
and below the eye and on each side of the forehead; chin white, extend- 
ing in two stripes down the sides of the throat to the breast, bordering the 
black of the head. The rest of the head, neck, and underparts grayish- 
plumbeous. Back, wing-coverts, tail and coverts, and outer edges of wing 
