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tatus of authors, and it may ultimately be decided that thej belong 

 to that species. All have a slight stain of orange in the end of the 

 yellow feathers of the crown, not quite so decided as in 26,377. 



(22,363.) Crown yellow. (22,.377.) Crown orange. (30,698.) Crown yellow. (120.) Crown 

 orange. (34,601.) ii ; 6^. Crown stained with orange. 



Basileuterus uropygialis. 



Basileuterus nropyglalis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1861, 128 ; 1864, 167.— Ib. 



Catal. 1861, 35, no. 214. 

 Basileuterus semicervinus, Lawrence, Aun. N. Y. Lye. 1861, 322, Panama 

 R. R. (not of Sclater, 1860). 

 Hah. Isthmus of Panama. 



(No. 124, Cab. G. N. L.) Upper parts brownish-olive, the head above slightly 

 tinged with cinereous ; rump, upper tail coverts, and rather more than basal 

 half of tail, with the under parts, yellowish-fnlvous, the latter, however, paler, 

 and quite light on middle of belly, but darker on the crissum. The sides of 

 head, neck and body, inside of wings and breast, washed with olive brown. 

 A line from bill to eye, and eyelids fulvous ; lores, and spot behind eye dusky. 

 Terminal half of tail brownish-olive, becoming darker to tip. Bill black. 

 Legs flesh color. First quill equal to the 8th ; the wings longer than the tail, 

 wliich is rounded. 



Total length, 4.70; wing, 2.30; tail, 2.10 ; graduation, .30; difference be- 

 tween 1st and 4tli quills, .28; length of bill from forehead, .62, from nostril, 

 .36; along gaj^e, .55 ; tarsus, .87; middle toe and claw, .QQ. 



This species was identified by Mr. Lawrence as semicervinus 

 (from Ecuador) before Sclater's description of iwopygialis (from 

 Brazil) appeared. It seems, however, to me to agree better with 

 the description of the latter species. According to Sclater, the 

 difference of vropi/gialis from semicervinus consists in having the 

 urop3^gium and under parts lighter, the back olive, and the head 

 cinereous, almost as in B. stragulatus, with which also it agrees ia 

 coloration of lower surface.' 



The species is related to J?, stragulatus, although the bill is broader 



' Since writing the above, Dr. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1864, 167, states that B. 

 vropygialis was erroneously assigned to Brazil, and that its true patria is 

 Panama. 



