DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS TITTRA, FROM ECUADOR

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i8SS.] Allen on a Nc-jj Tityra. Z^>1

A.m.sennetti. Juv. in firstplumage:

—

Prevailiiii^color abovegray- brown,streaked with black,broadly so on the interscapiiluni. Below pale fnlvous white, strongestonsidesof neck,jugulum, andflanks,where also sparsely streaked with black. (One specimen. No.4956, Coll. G.B.

Sennett

—

Corpus Christi,Texas,June 14,1SS7.)

The name

poiirisnlce

was

given to Scott's vScaside

Sparrow

betbre theLouisianamaterial

came

tohand. I'he

name

^is thus not happily cliosen, as the form is doiiI)tless locally

common

alongnot onlytlieGulfcoastof Florida, hut westward at least toWesternLotiisiana.

DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS TITTRA, FROM ECUADOR.

BY_J. A.

ALLEN.

A SMALL

collectionofbirds,collectedmaiidyin the vicinityof Qtiito,Ecuador,

was

recentlypurchased ofMr. LudovicSoder- strom by the

American Museum

of Natural History. It con- tains a

number

of rare species,andothers of special interestfoi the localityof theircapture; anannotated list of the collection will be given later in anotlier connection. It contained four specimensof Tityra^

two

of

which

are referableto T.personata_; one of thesehas

much more

than the usual

amoimt

ofwhitein thetail

—

^thusapproaching T. semifasciata

—

andtheothervery

much

lessthan thenormal amoimt.

One

of the otherspecimens

Irefer with hesitation to T.albitorqiics^ from

which

it differs in tiie small

amount

of white at the base of the tail, there beinglittle

more

tiian isseen in T.inqiiisltrix. This specimen thus has the head-markings of T. albitorqjtes and nearly the tailof T. iuquisitrix.

The

fourthspecimenisso differentfrom anyof the described species ofthis genusthatIventuretochar- acterize itasnew.

Tityra nigriceps,sp.nov.

Sp.Char. Adult

$

^:

—

^Similar^to ^T. ^personata, but with the whole headand throat black,and thewhiteat thebase of thetailrestricted to theextremebase of the feathers, which are rnerely white centrally for

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2ob

Elliot 0)i the yacauidce. rj"'y

about an inch,botli vanes being widely borderedwith black externally.

Tiicwhole plumage, both above andbelow,exceptingof course theblack ofwingsand ^tail,ismuchlighter

—

almost purewhite

—

^thanⁱⁿexamples of T.personata fromotherlocalities. Sizeof T.personata.

Type, No.30,489,

Am.

Mus.Nat.Hist.,

New

YorkCity.

Habitat. Headwaters

of the

Napo,

Ecuador.

In T. personata^the onlyspecies with

which

this need be compared, the black of the head is restricted to the chin, the malar region, the anterior half of the ear-coverts, and a broad

band

behindand abovethe eyes,joining the black of the front of thehead,

which

extendsfromthebase of thebilltoa lineabout oppositetothe middleofthe orbits. In T.nigricefstheblack covers the wliole throatandhead,extendingtothenape, and in-

cluding the

whole

of the auricular region.

The

nape is also black, with the feathers in part edged with white.

The

black

oftheheadis

thus quite as extended as in T. cayaiia.,\y\\\\ the addition ofaivhollyblack throat.

The

material

examined

inthis connection

numbers

ii3 specimens, representing,in

good

series,allthe

known

species of the genus. InthisconnectionIdesireto

acknowledge my

indebted- ness to the kind offices of

Mr.

Robert

Ridgway

insending

me

forexaminationthe specimensofTityra containedin theU. S.

National

Museum.

THE JACANID^.

BY

D. G.ELLIOT,F. R. S. E.

My

materialfor thisreview hasbeen obtainedfromthefollow- ing sources.

The

Jacanida;inthegeneral collection of the

Amer-

ican

Museum

of Natural History,

New York,

specimens from the

Lawrence

collectionandthose ofMessrs.

Smith

and

Rusby,

also in the

Museum. From

Boston Ihave received specimens fromtheBostonSociety ofNaturalHistory,and

Mr.

C. B.

Cory

;

andalsoallthespecimensintheNational

Museum

at

Washing-

ton, amountingaltogethertoabout onehundred examples,quite