SPERMOPHILA. 3550 
Spermophila gutturalis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, pp. 88°, 293*; Ibis, 1871, p. 15°; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. 8. 
1864, p. 852°; 1879, p. 5077; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 328°; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 225°; 
Tacz. P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 519”. 
Phonipara gutturalis, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 298". 
Spermophila gutturalis pallida, Berlepsch, J. f. Orn. 1884, p. 295”. 
Olivacea ; pileo antico, capitis lateribus et gutture toto ad medium pectus nigris; abdomine et tectricibus 
subalaribus flavicantibus ; rostro pallide flavido ; pedibus obscure corylinis. Long. tota 4:2, ale 2-1, 
caudee 1-9, tarsi 0°54. (Descr. maris ex Lion Hill, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Q olivacea, subtus dilutior, ventre medio et subalaribus flavicantibus. (Deser. feminze ex Medellin, Colombia. 
Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Panama, Lion Hill (M‘Leannan® “),—Sourn Amurica from Colombia’ § 12 to Peru 10" 
Brazil! 2, and Guiana. 
This widely-ranging species just enters our fauna as far as the line of the Panama 
railway, where M‘Leannan found it, and sent specimens to Mr. Lawrence and 
to ourselves; we have no record of its occurrence elsewhere within the State. In 
Colombia, Salmon found it breeding near Medellin’, making a nest of dry stems of erass 
rather loosely put together in a bush four or five feet from the ground. The egos are 
pale greenish white, marked with large blotches of several shades of greenish brown. 
Mr. Wyatt, too, found it near a stream at Ocaiia, where it associated in great numbers 
with S. minuta, feeding on the seeds of some low bushes 8. 
From Colombia it is universally spread over Tropical America, having been met with 
by Natterer®, Wallace, Prince Neuwied, and others, and recently by Whitely in the 
mountains near Roraima in British Guiana, at an elevation of 3500 feet above 
the sea. 
Graf von Berlepsch has separated the Colombian bird from the Brazilian on account 
of its having a more olive back with less admixture of dark colour. We notice this 
individual difference, but cannot localize it; both forms are found in Guiana, and 
the Panama bird is intermediate. 
S. gutturalis has no near allies in the genus, but comes next to 8. luctuosa, from 
which species it can readily be distinguished. 
6. Spermophila corvina. 
Spermophila corvina, Scl. P. Z.8. 1859, p. 3791; Ibis, 1871, p.16*; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 33°; 
1867, p.278*; 1870, p. 836°; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. viii. p. 180°; ix. p. 102”; Sumichrast, 
Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H.i. p. 551° ; Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 301°; Salv. Ibis, 1872, p. 317"; 
Nutt. & Ridgw. Pr. U. 8. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 401". 
Sporophila corvina, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1865, p. 169”. 
Spermophila badiiventris, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 172°; Baird, Trans. Ac. Chicago, i. p. 319, 
t. 28. f. 3™. 
Nigra unicolor ; speculo alari et subalaribus albis ; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long. tota 4-4, alee 2:2, caude 1: 8, 
tarsi 0°55. 
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