17. BASHEUIERUS. 389 



rufous, obscured with ash}--grey tips to the feathers ; base of fore- 

 head a.shy brown ; sides of crowu brownish black, forming a broad 

 baud alongside of the rufous crown, and succeeded by a second broad 

 band of ashy, inclining to ashy whitish above the ear-coverts ; eye- 

 lid ashy ; lores and ear-coverts pale ashy brown ; cheeks and under 

 surface of body dull white, washed with pale brown on the fore neck 

 and breast, and slightly tinged with yellow on the latter ; sides of 

 body and flanks pale brown washed with olive ; thighs yellowish 

 olive ; under tail-coverts pale yellow ; axillarics and under wing- 

 coverts pale olive-yellow ; quills dusky brown below, ashy white 

 along the edge of the inuer web. Total length 5 inches, culmen 

 0'5, wing 2-35, tail 2-25, tarsus 0"75. 

 Hub. Brazil. 



a. c? ad. sk. Lagoa Santa, June 13 {Lund). Sclater Collection. 



b. Ad. sk. Ypauema (Nafterer). Sclater Collection. 



14. Basileuterus conspicillatus. 



BasUeuterus conspicillatus, Salv. tS/- Godm. His, 18S0, p. 117. 



Adult female (type oi ST^ecies : San Jose, U.S. Colombia ; !F. A. A. 

 Simons). General colour above olive-green, the wing-coverts like the 

 back; greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 dusky, edged with the same colour as the back ; tail-feathers olive- 

 brown, edged with yellowish olive ; centre of crowu orange, with 

 yellow bases to the feathers ; the coronal patch extending to the 

 nape, which is ashy grey like the hind neck ; on each side of the 

 orange crown a broad band of black ; base of forehead, sides of 

 crown, ear-coverts, and sides of face ashy grey ; ear-coverts with 

 minute white shaft-lines ; a streak of white from the base of the 

 nostrils and above the eye ; lores, as well as anterior and posterior 

 margins of ej'elid, black ; upper and lower edge of eyelid white ; throat 

 dull white, shaded with ashy-grey edges to the feathers ; remainder 

 of under surface of body rich yellow, the sides of the body and 

 thighs olive ; imder tail-coverts deep yellow : under wing-covcrts 

 and axillaries olive-yellow, brighter yellow on the edge of the wing ; 

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

 " iris brown " (Simons). Total length 5'4 inches, culmen 0'5, 

 wing 2--t, tail 2'25, tarsus 0'2. 



A second example, killed on the same day as the above (June 5th), 

 has the crown obscured with ashy tips to the feathers. 



Hub. Colombia. 



a, b. 2 ^d. sk. San Jose, Sierra Nevada Salviu-Godman Coll. 



of Santa Marta, Jime 

 {F. Siinuns). 



15. Basileuterus castaneiceps. 



Basileuterus castaneiceps, Scl. ^- Salv. P. Z. H. 1877, p. 521 ; Tacz. 

 P. Z. S. 1879, p. ■2-23, 1882, p. 3 ; id. Orn. Feron, p. 474 (1884). 



Adult. General colour above duU yellowish olive, lighter toward 



