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Northern South America, from the lower Amazon Valley (Para, 

 Santarem, Diamantina. etc.) and central pA-uador (LaConcepcion) north 

 to Lsthnnis of Panama (Lion Hill Station. Panama Railroad. Colon, 

 etc.), Trinidad, and Tobago. 



[/>ox/a] minuht Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 176 (Surinam) ; ed. 12, i, 1766, 

 307.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 865.— Lath.\m, Index Orn., i, 1790, 396. 



Fyrrkula minuta Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hit^t. Nat., iv, 1816, 299; Euc. Meth., 

 iii, 1823, 1026. 



S.[_perm,op}ula] yninuta Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 386. 



[Spermophila^ minuta Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 495 (Cayenne; Brazil). — 

 ScLATER and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 28. 



Spermophila minuta Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 160 (Bogota, Colom- 

 bia) ; Cat. Am, Birds, 1862,104 (Tobago; Bogota) ; Ibis, 1871, 3(mouogr.).— 

 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vi, 1861, 333 (Panama R. R. ). — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 352 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R.); 1868, 

 167 (Caripe, Venezuela); 1879, 506 (Retiro and Medellin, Colombia).— 

 Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 83 (Trinidad).— Wyatt, Ibis, 1873, 380 (Para, Lower 

 Amazon).— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 220 (Bogota; Trinidad); 

 Ibis, 1885, 214 (Roraima, British Guiana, alt. 3,500 ft.). — Berlepsch, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1884, 294 (Ocafia and Paturia, Colombia). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1884, 351. — Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 

 1888, 109, 820 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R.; Medellin and Bogota, Colombia; 

 Georgetown and Roraima, British Guiana; Cayenne; Tobago; Para). — Sal- 

 vador! and Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, 1899, 23 (La Concepcion, 

 centr. Ecuador) . 



[Spermophilal minuta Sclater and Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 28. 



Sp.\_orop}nla^ iiiinuta Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, June, 1851, 150 (Cayenne). 



[Sporophila'] minuta Lichtenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol, 1854, 45. 



Sporophila minuta Cabanis, in Schomburgk's Reise Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 679. — 

 Chapman, Auk, vii, July, 1890, 268 (Santarem, Lower Amazon; crit.); Bull. 

 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, vi, 1894, 34 (Trinidad).— Phelps, Auk, xiv, 1897, 364 

 (Cumanacoa and San Antonio, Venezuela) .■ — Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1899, 307 (Honda, centr. Colombia). 



[Gyrinorhynchus'\ minutus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 105, no. 7567. 



[Loxia'] fusciveyiter Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 20 (Cayenne; based on Bou- 

 vreuil a ventre roux, de Cayenne, Buffon, PL Enl., v, pi. 319, tig. 2). 



S-lpermophila] fusciventris Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 386. 



Si)ermopJtUa fusciventris J ARDmE, Ann. Nat. Hist., xx, 1847, 333 (Tobago). 



SPOROPHILA MINUTA PARVA (Lawrence). 

 RICHARDSON'S SEEDEATER. 



Similar to S. m. minuta but adult male with the gray parts of the 

 plumage purer gray (ash gray instead of brownish gra^^ or grayish 

 brown); adult female slightly less fulvescent or butfy than that of 

 S. in. minuta. 



Adult maZ^.— Length (skins), 83.82-95.76 (90.68); wing, 48.26-56.42 

 (50.04); tail, 38.35-41.66 (39.62); exposed culmen, 8.38-8.80 (8.64); 



