380 MxioTiLTTn.T;. 



brownish; iris dark brown" (Jelsl-i). Total length 4-8 inches, 

 culmen O'o, wing 2-4o, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-8. 

 Hab. Prom Colombia to Peru. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Collection. 



c. Ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Collection. (Type of C7ilo- 



rospingus .ranthophrys, Scl.) 



d, e. Ad. sk. Bogota. Salvin-Godman Collection. 

 /. Ad. St. S. America. J. Gould, Esq. 



2. Basileuterus flaveolus. 



BasUeuterus flaveolus, Baird, Rev. Amer. B. p. 2-52 (18G5) ; Scl. Sf 



Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 10 (1873). 

 Myiothlypis flaveolus, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 72 (1871). 



AduJt male. General colour above yellowish green, a little lighter 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts, the long feathers of the former 

 with a concealed subtenniual white bar ; wing-coverts like the 

 back, the greater series rather more yellow at the ends ; primarj'- 

 coverts and quills dusky brown, estemally like the back, the 

 bastard-wing feathers rather more ashy olive on their outer webs, 

 the first primary margined with olive-brown ; tail-feathers dusky 

 olive, with cross bars under certain lights, the feathers externally 

 olive like the back ; head like the back, with an ill-defined streak 

 of dusky blackish from the base of the bill to the sides of the nape, 

 followed by an eyebrow of rather bright yellow extending above the 

 ear-coverts ; lores and upper and under edge of eyelid yellow ; ante- 

 rior edge of eyelid and a spot behind the eye dusky blackish ; feathers 

 below the eye and anterior portion of ear-coverts yellow, the hinder 

 part of the latter yellowish green like the sides of the neck ; 

 cheeks and entire under surface of body bright yellow, the sides of 

 the breast and flanks yellowish green ; thighs olive-yellow ; under 

 tail-coverts bright yellow ; asillaries and under wing-coverts yel- 

 low, with ashy bases to the feathers, the edge of the wing bright 

 yellow ; quills dusky below, ash)- along the edge of the inner web. 

 Total length 5-4 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-65, tail 2-35, tarsus 0-9. 

 Bab. Brazil. 



a. Ad. sk. South America. Sclater Collection. 



b. Ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Collection. 



c. Ad. sk. Bahia. Sclater Collection. 



d. e. Ad. sk. Bahia ( Wucherer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 f. (5ad.sk. Goiaz, Brazil (A'a^^^rw). Sclater Collection. 



3. Basileuterus nigricristatus. 



Trichas nigricristatus, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 230; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 197 (1846). 

 Myiothlypis nigrocristatus, Cab. Mns. Hein. Th. i. p. 17 (1850) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 311 (1850) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 143. 

 Basileuterus nigi-icristatus, Scl. P.Z.S. 1859, p. 440; id. Cat. Amer. 



B. p. 3G (18(32) ; Baird, Rev. Amer. B. p. 251 (18G5) ; Scl. ^- Salv. 



