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Show PROCEEDINGS 01' THE SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. January 10, 1867. A. R. Wallace, Esq., F.Z.S., in the Chair. Mr. P. L. Sclater exhibited some specimens of birds from the recent collections of M . Adolphe Boucard, C.M.Z.S., in Southern Mexico*, and pointed out the characters of a new species of Finch, of which examples had been obtained by M . Boucard in the vicinity of La Puebla. This was proposed to be called ZONOTRICHIA BOUCARDI, sp. nov. (Plate I.) Supra cinerea, plumis medialiter brunneis cinereo late marginatis; pileo fere omnino rufo, cinereo paulum mix to; linea superciliari ante oculos et ciliis oculorum albis : genis et cervicis lateribus pure cinereis : remigibus et rectricibus intus nigricantibus, extus brunnescenti-cinereo marginatis, alarum secundariis colore magis brunnescente et latius marginatis; tectricibus extus dorso fere concoloribus: subtus albicanti-cinerea, gutture toto albo, striga utrinque nigra ; ventre medio lactescenti-albo, utrinque cum crisso fulvescente tincto : rostro superiore nigro, inferiore * See P. Z. S. 1865, p. 397. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1867, No. I. |