| OCR Text |
Show 1866.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON NEW AMERICAN BIRDS. 321 At the same time I may remark that I was already aware of the existence of a species of this form in Santa Lucia, from its being represented in some drawings of the birds of that island by Lieut. Tyler, which are in the Society's Library, and which I now exhibit. It will be remarked that the bird is called "The Trembler" in Lieut. Tyler's MS., '^La Merle Trembleuse " being the name applied in Martinique to its representative species. There is little difference in general form, except in its more elongated and incurved bill, between C. macrorhyncha and its two allies. The first (spurious) primary is large as in the other two species, measuring 1*5 inch from its insertion, and being rather more than half the length of the second primary. The third is slightly shorter than the fourth, fifth, and sixth, which are equal and longest. The present specimen of C. macrorhyncha has the tarsus covered anteriorly with a continuous horny sheath, the divisions of the tarsal scutes having become obsolete. In specimens of C. ruficauda and C. gutturalis, which I now exhibit, these divisions are distinctly indicated and the scutes are five in number, which is probably the normal form of the genus. 3. THRYOTHORUS MARTINICENSIS, sp. nov. Supra murino-brunneus, uropygio et lateribus capitis rufescenti-bus, alis et cauda saturate fuscis, extus subobsolete nigro trans-fasciatis : subtus fulvus, fere unicolor ; tectricibus subalaribus pallide fulvis : mandibula superiore cornea, inferiore flavida ; pedibus pallide fuscis : long, tota 4 3, alar 2-2, caudar 1*4, rostri a rictu 0*8. Hab. in insula Martinicensi. Mus. Parisiensi et P. L. S. Obs. Similis Troglodytar furvo, quoad colores corporis superi, sed rostro multum longiore, et subtus unicolor rufescens. I have had specimens of this Wren in m y collection for several years ; but as they were purchased of the dealers in Paris I was never certain of their true patria. I was first induced to believe that they 'were from Martinique, from seeing similar examples in the small collection of birds from that island exhibited by M . Belanger, Director of the Botanical Gardens of St. Pierre, in the International Exhibition in 1862*. I have been recently confirmed in this opinion by having had the opportunity of examining specimens of the same bird from Martinique in the collection of the Jardin des Plantes, obtained by M . Alexandre Rousseau in 1842, and by M . Ple'e in earlier years. I have little doubt also that this Wren, or a form closely allied to it, is likewise found in Santa Lucia, as among Lieut. Tyler's drawings alluded to above is an unfinished one marked " Le Rossignol," which has every appearance of having been intended for the present species. 4. HYLOPHILUS PECTORALIS, sp. nov. Olivaceus, capite cinereo, subtus albus, pectore hypochondriis et subalaribus limonaceo-flavis: alis caudaque fuscis olivaceo * See Ibis, 1862, p. 288. |
