390 MNIOTILTID^. 



the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like the back, the 

 edges of the median and greater series rather lighter olive-yellow ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts dusky brown, edged with yellowish 

 olive ; quills dusky brown, externally yellowish olive, clearer on the 

 primaries; tail-feathers olive-brown, with yellowish-olive edges; 

 crown of head orange-chestnut, forming a distinct cap, which is 

 edged with a line of black from the base of the bill to the nape, 

 which is tinged with grey ; this is followed by a broad superciliary 

 band of clear grey along the sides of the crown ; lores black ; ear- 

 coverts clear grey, with a blackish band across the upper part; 

 sides of face grey, mottled with a few white spots ; cheeks and 

 under surface of body light ashy grey, whitish on the centre of the 

 breast and abdomen, which are slightly tinged with yellow ; sides 

 of body olive-brown ; thighs ashy ; under tail-coverts pale ochreous 

 yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts whitish, washed with 

 pale yellow ; quills dusky below, ashy white along the edge of the 

 inner web. Total length 5-4 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-75, tail 

 2-55, tarsus 0-95. 



Hal. Peru and Ecuador. 



a. Ad. sk. Tambillo, Peru (Stobmann). Sclater Collection. 



6. Ad. sk. Sical, Ecuador (C. ^McAfey). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Jima, Ecuador (C. Buckley). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



16. Basileuterus coronatus. 



Myiodioctes coronatus, Tschudi, Arch. f. Naturg. 1844, p. 283 ; id. 

 Faun, reman, p. 193 (1844-4G). 



Basileuterus coronatus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 314 (1850) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 

 1855, p. 144, 1859, p. 137 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 34 (1802) ; id. 

 P. Z. S. 1865, p. 285 ; Baird, Rev. Amer. B. p. 244 (1865) ; Scl. ^■ 

 Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 10 (1873) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, 

 p. 509, 1882, p. 6 ; id. Orn. Perou, p. 476 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above olive-greenish, rather lighter 

 and more of an olive-yellow towards the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

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

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dark brown, externally 

 edged with olive-greenish, a little yellower on the outer greater 

 coverts and primaries ; tail-feathers dusky brown, with darker cross 

 bars under certain lights, all the feathers externally olive-yellowish ; 

 forehead and top of crown bright chestnut ; the hinder crown, occi- 

 put, and nape slaty grey, both skirted by a distinct line of black 

 from the base of the bill to the sides of the hind neck ;, this is fol- 

 lowed by a broad eyebrow of slaty grey, expanding oil to the sides 

 of the neck ; lores somewhat whitish ; in front of the eye a black 

 spot ; eyelid mottled with whitish ; ear-coverts slaty grey, with ashy 

 whitish shaft-lines, and separated from the eyebrow by a line of 

 black running from behind the eye above the ear-coverts ; hinder 

 cheeks slaty grey, with narrow shaft-lines of ashy white ; fore part 

 of cheeks and feathers below the eye mottled with ashy-whitish 

 Epots ; throat ashy white, with grey bases to the feathers ; fore neck 



