17. BASILEtJTERTTS, 383 



crown of head with a patch of yellow, obscured by olive-green tips 

 to the feathers ; the sides of the crown with a broad black bar 

 accompanying the yellow coronal patch from the base of the bill, 

 and extending down the sides of the hind neck, but not so pro- 

 nounced in this direction ; a superciliary Hne of ashy grey extending 

 from the lores to the sides of the neck, which are also ashy grey 

 like the hind neck and nape ; lores ashy whitish ; sides of face, 

 cheeks, and ear-coverts ashy grey, mottled with white spots on the 

 fore part of the cheeks and below the eye ; upper margin of ear- 

 coverts blackish : throat white, washed with ashy, the fore neck and 

 sides of neck more decided ashy grey; centre of breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts bright yellow, the sides of the body and flanks 

 olive-green ; thighs a little more ashy ; axillaries olive-yellow, with 

 dusky bases ; under wing-coverts also dull olive-yellow, with dusky 

 bases ; quills dusky below, ashy along the edge of the inner web. 

 Total length 4-7 inches, culmen 0*55, wing 2-5, tail 2-3, tarsus 0-85. 

 Hab. Colombia. 



«r,6 Ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Collection. (Tvpes of species.) 



c. Ad. sk. Bogota. Salvin-Ciodman Collection. 



6. Basileuterus culicivorus. 



Sylvia culicivora, Licht. Preis- Verz. mex. Vog. p. 2 (1830) : Cab. J. 

 f. O. 1853, p. 67. 



Muscicapa brasieri, Giraud, SLiieen B. Texas, pi. 6. fio-. 2 (1841). 



Basileuterus culicivorus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 17 (1850) ■ Bn 

 Consp. i. p. 313 (1850) ; Baird, Rev. Amer. B. p. 245 ; Lawr.'Ann 

 Lye. N. I . IX. p. 95 (1868) ; Sumichr. Mem. Bost. Soc. Kat Hist i 

 p. 540 (1869) ; Salt. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 183 ; Scl. 8,- Sah. Nomend 

 Av. Neotr. p. 10 (1873) ; Baird^ Breiver, 8^ Buh/w. Hist. N. Amer 



i- ]) ^rrl^ il^^'^^ ' ^'''"^'' ^- ^"^'"'- ^ «^^- P- 335 (1878) ; Ridgiv. 



Bull. U.S. JSat. Mm. no. 21, p. 19 (1881); Salv. ^ Godm. Biol. 



Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 171 (1881). 

 Basileuterus brasieri, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 66, 1856, p. ^99 1859 



p. 374 ; Salv. ^- Scl. Ibis, 1860, p. 274; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. n 34 



(1862) ; Scl. P. Z. S 1865, p. 283. ^' 



Setophaga culicivora, Gratj, Hand-l. B. i. p. 244, no. 3544 (1869). 



Adult male. General colour above dull ashy grey, washed with 

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

 coverts dusky brown, with narrow margins of ashy grey ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts light brown, very narrowly fringed with 

 ashy ; quills brown, edged with ashy grey, the first primary mar- 

 gined with ashy white ; tail-feathers brown, externally edged with 

 ashy grey, with a narrow fringe of white along the end of the inner 

 web of the outer feathers ; centre of crown bright sulphur-yellow, 

 the occiput and nape ashy olive ; a broad band of black extending 

 from above the lores to the sides of the nape ; base of forehead ashy 

 mixed with yellow ; over the eye a band of ashy grey washed with 

 olive ; lores pale yellow ; in front of the eye a blackish spot ; upper 

 and lower edge of eyelid pale yellow, as well as the feathers below 

 the eye; ear-coverts ashy grey slightly tinged with oHve; a line 



