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Show 5G MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON NEW BIRDS. [J W e are acquainted with six species of this genus, which is divisible into two sections as follows :- a. Dendrocops. (1) D. picumnus (Licht.), ex Brasil. reg. sylv. (2) D. puncticollis, nobis, ex Guatemala. (3) D. validus (Tsch.): Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 184. D. multostrigatus, Eyton. Ex Peruvia orient, et Nov. Granada. b. Dendrocolaptes. (4) D. certhia (Bodd. ex Pl. Enl. 621). D. cayennensis, auct. ex Gmelin. Premnocopus undulatus, Cab. Ex Guiana et Amazonia inf. (5) D. radiolatus, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 755, ex Peruv. orientali. (6) D. sancti-thomce (Lafr.), ex Panama, Costa Rica, et Guatemala. (7) D. concolor, Pelzeln, ex Amazonia. There are specimens of all these species in Sclater's collection. W e have not yet met with D. pallescens, Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 61. 3. SCOPS BARBARUS, sp. nov. Scopsfiammeola, Salvin, Ibis, 1861, p. 355 (err.). Niger, pallido rufopunctatus et variegatus : superciliis in torquem nuchalem transeuntibus, albo guttatis: scapularium pogoniis externis distincte albo ocelfatis : primariis fusco-nigris, externo rufescente albo septies transfasciatis: cauda nigricante, rufescente quinquies transfasciata: subtus nigricans, prcecipue in ventre ocellis albis frequenter aspersus; crisso nigro punctato : tarsis pro majore parte dense vestitis horum autem parte terminali cum digitis omnino nudis: long. tota 7, alee 5*4, caudce 2*5, tarsi 1. Hab. Guatemala, prov. Veree Pacis. The type specimen of this apparently undescribed Scops, now in the collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman, was sent to Salvin from Vera Paz in the year 1866. The bird referred to by Salvin as Scops fiammeola, as quoted above, turns out to be a rufous variety of the same species. Scops barbarus, as we propose to term it, the last-mentioned example having been obtained near the village of Santa Barbara, in Vera Paz, is readily distinguishable from every other American Scops, except Scops fiammeola, by its small size. From the latter it may be at once distinguished by the feathering of the tarsus terminating above its distal end, and leaving a narrow naked ring round its lower end (see fig. 2). In Scops fiammeola (fig. 1) the feathering is continued rather beyond the extremity of the tarsus, and covers the basal joints of the anterior phalanges. The present bird is also remarkable for the round white spots which thickly cover its under plu- |