AET. 7 EEVISIOISr OF THE GENUS BASTLEUTEItUS — TODD 39 



Specimens exannined. — Colombia: El Cauca, 1; La Palmita, 4; 

 Pueblo Nuevo, 3; Rio Negro, 7; Buena Vista (above Villavicencio), 5. 

 Total, 20. 



BASILEUTERUS CONSPICILLATUS SaWin and Godman 



Basileuterus conspicillatus Salvin and Godman, Ibis. 1880, p. 117 (San 

 Jose, Colombia ; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Brit. Mus. ) . — Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 10, 1885, p. 389 (San Jose, Colombia; descr.).— 

 Saxvin, Ibis, 1887, p. 130, in text (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 

 Colombia).— Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 36, 1917, p. 551, 

 in text (crit.). — Todd and Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 14, 1922, 

 pp. 54, 84, 86, 124, 441 ( Santa Marta localities and refs. ; range ; crit. ) . 



Basileuterus cinereicolUs (not of Sclater) Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. "Wash- 

 ington, vol. 12, 1898, p. 160 (Pueblo Viejo, Colombia), p. 180 (San Fran- 

 cisco and Palomina, Colombia). — Allen, Bull. Amei-. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 13, 1900, pp. 120, 175 (Las Nubes, Ouaca, Valparaiso, and El Libano, 

 Colombia; plum.; crit.).— Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, vol. 5, 1909, p. 123, 

 note (crit.). 



Description. — Head deep neutral gray, spreading over the nape, the 

 throat paler (pallid neutral gray) ; pileum with two broad lateral 

 stripes of black, meeting on the forehead, and inclosing a coronal spot 

 which varies in color from lemon yellow to Mars yellow ; short super- 

 ciliaries (not reaching beyond the eye) and lower eyelid white; lores 

 and auricular region blackish slate, the latter not in sharp contrast 

 with the sides of the neck ; upper parts, and wings and. tail exter- 

 nally, light olive green (between olive green and warbler green) ; 

 under parts, from the breast down, lemon chrome, the crissum usually 

 paler, and sometimes inclining to aniline yellow, the sides more or less 

 washed with pyrite yellow ; " iris brown ; bill blackish, paler below ; 

 feet dusky yellow" (Carriker). 



Measurements. — Male: Wing, 63-69 (average, 66) ; tail, 56-61 (59) ; 

 bill, 9.5-11 (10.5); tarsus, 20-22 (21). Female: Wing, 61-68 (63); 

 tail, 54-60 (56.6) ; bill, 10-11 (10.5) ; tarsus, 20-22 (20.5). 



Range. — Subtropical Zone, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Co- 

 lombia. 



Remarks. — Basileutei^s conspicillatus is the Santa Marta repre- 

 sentative of B. cinereicolUs. It differs from that species in its 

 brighter yellow under parts, with the gray color confined to the 

 throat, its brighter green upper parts, its rather more distinct head 

 markings, and its whitish instead of greenish under wing-coverts. 

 These differences impress one as being of specific value. The varia- 

 tion in the color of the coronal spot is remarkable, but is surely not 

 due to age. In juvenal dress the gray of the head and throat is 

 replaced by dull olive with a brownish wash, and the stripes are not 

 in evidence. 



In describing this species Salvin and Godman compared it with B. 

 coronatus, which led several authors to infer that it was identical 



