BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 571 



Paulo, 1899, 162. — Salvadori and Festa, Boll. Mus. ZooL, etc., Torino, xv> 



1899, 25 (Valle del Chota, centr. Ecuador; syn.). 

 {Spermophila'] guttumlix Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 28. 

 [PhonijMra'] gutturalis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 494 (Brazil). 

 Phonipara gutturalis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1861, 298 (Panama R. R.). 

 ISporophila] gutturalis LiCHTF.ssTE\y , Nom. Mus. Berol., 1854, 45. 

 Sp-lorophila] gutturalis Cabani^, Mus. Hein., i, June, 1851, 149 (Brazil). 

 Sporophila gutturalis Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., iii, 1856. 244. — Allen, 



Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 223 (Brazil); iii, 1891, 369 (Chapada, prov. 



Mattogrosso, .«. w. Brazil). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., vi, 1894, 34 



(Trinidad). — Phelps, Auk, xiv, 1897, 364 (Cumanacoa and Ran Antonio, 



Venezuela). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, 179 (Palomina, prov. 



Santa 3Iarta, Colombia). 

 [Posserma] gutturalis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 98, nii. 7454. 

 Loxia ignobilis Spix, Av. Bras., 1824, 46, pi. 60, tig. 3 (Para, Brazil). 

 S-lpermophilal ignobilis Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 386. 

 Loxia plebeja Spix, Av. Bras., 1824, 46, pi. 59, fig. 3 (Brazil). 

 S-lpermophilal plebeja Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 386. 

 Sporophila plebeja 'LiCHT^yiiiTBi's, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 46. 

 F.[ringilla melanocephala (not Coccothraustes melanocephala Vieillot) Maximilian, 



Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iii, pt. i, 1830, 577 (Rio Belmonte, Brazil; type lost; see 



Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 223). 

 S.[permophila'\ melanocephala Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1849, App., i>. 18. 

 Spermophila olivaceo-flava Lafresnaye, Rev. ZooL, 1843, 291 (Colombia) ; 1846, 



207 (fuller description). — Scl.\ter, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.,1855, 160 (Bogota) 

 (?) Spermophila. gutturalis olivacea " Stolzm " [ami] Berlepsch and Taczanowski, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, 550 (Chimbo, w. Ecuador; coll. Count von 



Berlepsch); 1884, 293 (Cayandeled, \v. Ecuador). 

 (?) Spermophila gutturalis pallida Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., xxxii, July and 



Oct., 1884, 295 (Bucaramanga, ColomVjia; coll. Count von Berlei)sch). 



SPOROPHILA CORVINA (Sclater). 

 BLACK SEEDEATER. 



Adult male. — Uniform g-lossy black, with axillars, under wing- 

 coverts, basal portion of inner webs of remiges, and more or less of a 

 white spot at base of outer webs of sixth to second or first primaries, 

 white (the last marking sometimes olisolete, or mostly concealed by 

 primary coverts); bill black; legs and feet dusky brown; length (skins), 

 97.03-114.81 (106.68); wing, 52.07-55.63 (54.61); tail, 42.67-50.29 

 (45.47); exposed culmen, 8.89-9.91 (9.40); depth of bill at base, 8.13- 

 8.89 (8.38); tarsus, 14.48-16.76 (15.75); middle toe, 10.67-12.19 

 (11.43).^ 



Adult female. — Plain olive, paler below, the abdomen and anal 

 region more or less tinged with pale ochraceous or buffy; axillars and 

 under wing-coverts white, often tinged with sulphur yellow; bill, legs, 

 and feet dusky brown (in breeding plumage the general coloration 

 lighter below and decided^ grayer throughout); length (skins), 98.55- 

 110.74 (105.66); wing, 51.31-55.12 (53.09); exposed culmen, 9.14- 



' Nineteen specimens. 



