388 MNIOTILTIDiE. 



the edge of the inner web : " iris brown " (Goering). Total length 

 4*8 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-4, tail 2, tarsus 0-b, 

 Mab. Sierra Nevada of Merida. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Merida, Venezuela, July Salvin-Godnian Coll. 



(A. Goering). 



12. Basileuterus trifasciatus. 



Basileuterus trifasciatus, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 191 (ex Stolzmann, 

 MSS.) ; id. Orn. Perou, p. 473 (1884). 



Adult. General colour above ashy olive on the mantle and back ; 

 the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts olive-yellow ; lesser 

 and median wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts dusky, 

 washed externally with olive-yellow ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts dusky, narrowly edged with olive ; quills dusky, edged with 

 yellowish oUve, brighter on the margins of the primaries, more ashy 

 towards the ends of the latter ; tail-feathers dusky, margined with 

 olive-yellow ; centre of the crown ashy from the base of the biR to 

 the nape, the fore part of the central stripe with concealed bases of 

 ochre-yellow ; on each side of the crown a broad black band ex- 

 tending down the sides of the nape ; lores and a superciliary streak 

 ashy grey, like the sides of the neck ; feathers below the eye dull 

 ashy grey ; eyelids whitish ; ear-coverts ashy grej', with a black 

 band along the upper edge behind the eye ; cheeks and throat ashy 

 whitish, with a narrow dusky malar line, separating the two ; lower 

 throat and remainder of under surface of body yellow, becoming 

 brighter and richer on the breast and abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts ; thighs ashy white ; flanks slightly washed with olive, 

 darker and more ashy olive on the sides of the upper breast ; axil- 

 laries and under wing-coverts pale yellow, with whitish bases ; 

 quills dusky below, whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 4-4 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-15, tail 1'9, tarsus 0-7. 



Huh. Ecuador and Peru. 



I am indebted to Dr. Taczanowski for the loan of the type of his 

 B. trifasciatus, which is identical with the Jima bird described 

 by me. 



a. Ad. sk. Jima, Ecuador (C. Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



13. Basileuterus hypoleucus. 



Basileuterus hypoleucus, Cah. Mus. Berol., undh Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 313 (1850); Burm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 113 (1856); Pek. Orn. 



Bras. p. 72 (1871 ); Scl. Sr Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 10 (1873). 

 Setophaga hypoleuca, Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 245, no. 3549 (1869). 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish olive, somewhat ashy 

 on the back ; wing-coverts dull yellowish olive ; bastard-wing, pri- 

 mary-coverts, and quills light brown, edged narrowly with yellowish 

 olive like the back, as also the greater coverts ; tail-feathers light 

 brown, with yellowish-olive edges ; centre of crown pale orange- 



