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who has seen the type of the latter species, tells me that ho cannot 

 distinguish it from Ecuador examples. 



a. cS ad. sk. Esmeraldas, Ecuador Sclater Collection 



(i. Fraser). (Type of species.) 



6. [ 9 ] ad. sk. Esmeraldas {L. Fraser). Sclater Collection. 



c. Ad. sk. Ecuador. Goidd Collection. 



d. Ad. sk. Quito. Gould Collection. 



c. (S ad. sk. Babahoyo, Ecuador, July Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(i. Fraser). 

 /". Ad. sk. Intaj, Ecuador (C.i?McA;%). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



6. Geothlypis speciosa. (Plate X.) 



Geothlypis speciosa, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 447 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. 



p. 27 (1862); Baird, Revieiu Amer. B. p. 22-3, note (1865); 



Swnichr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. IT. i. p. 546 (1869) ; Salv. Ibis, 1872, 



p. 149 ; Scl. Sr Salv. Nbmencl. Av. Neotr. p. 9 (1873) ; Salv. ^ Godm. 



Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 162 (1881). 

 Trichas speciosa, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 242, no. 3510 (1869). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above dark olive- 

 yellow, rather brighter towards the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts 

 dusky brown, edged with olive-yellow ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills dusky brown, obscurely edged with olive ; tail- 

 feathers dark olive, crossed with dusky bars under certain lights, 

 the edges of the feathers more yellowish olive externally ; forehead 

 and crown black, the feathers of the vertex shaded with duU ashy ; 

 the occiput and nape dull olive ; lores, sides of face, ear-coverts, and 

 checks black, forming a patch which extends down the sides of the 

 neck for some distance ; sides of neck otherwise like the back ; 

 under surface of body bright yellow, tinged with saffron on the 

 breast and near the sides of the abdomen ; sides of breast and flanks 

 light reddish brown, shaded with ashy ; thighs like the flanks ; 

 under tail-coverts deep yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 deep olive-yellow, the edge of the wing golden yellow ; quills dusky 

 brown below, ashy along the edge of the inner web. Total length 

 5-5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-35, tail 2-2.5, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. Greener than the male above, and without any black 

 on the head and face ; the head a little more ashy olive than the 

 back ; wings and tail as in the male ; sides of face and ear-coverts 

 olive-brown, mottled with pale yellow spots on the lores and below 

 the eye ; upper and lower edge of eyelid pale yellow : under surface 

 of body light fulvous yellow, tinged with saffron on the breast ; the 

 sides of the body light reddish brown, shaded with ashy ; under 

 tail-coverts brighter yellow. Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-55, 

 wing 2-0-5, tail I'O, tarsus 0-8. 

 Hal. Mexico. 



a,h. J $ ad. sk. Mexico (De Saussure). Sclater Collection. 



(Types of species.) 

 c. 2 ad. sk. Mexico (Bouvier). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



