400 JlNIOTILTIDiE. 



brown " (Goerinr/). Total length 5-4 inches, culmen 0*55, wing 

 2*55, tail 2'3, tarsus 0'8. 

 JIab. Venezuela. 



a. (S ad. sk, Venezuela {Goeriny), Sclater Collection. 



(Type of species.) 



26. Basileuterus leucoblepharus. 



El Contramaestre. Azara, Apnnt. ii. p. 40 (180ii). 



Sylvia leucoblepliara, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xi. p. 206 (1817); 



' nOrb. Voy. Amer. Mericl. p. 216, pi. 12. iig. 2 (1835-44). 

 Triclias superciliosus, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 295 (1837) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 197 (1846). 

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



B. i. p. 197 (1846) ; Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 10 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 310 (18o0) ; Burm. Th. Bras. hi. p. 114 (1855). 

 Geothlypis leucoblepbara. Cab. Mns. Hein. Th. i. p. 17 (1850). 

 Basileuterus leucoblepharus, Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 36 (1862) ; Baird, 



Eeoiew Amer. B. p. 244 (1865) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 285 ; Pek. Orn. 



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

 Setophaga leucoblepharuni,Gr««/,i/aM(^-/. B. i. p. 244, no. 3541 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above dark olive-green, the wing-coverts 

 like the back ; bastard-wing diisky, externally ashy olive-green ; 

 primary-coverts and quills dusky brown, externally olive-green, 

 the primaries more yellow externally ; tail-feathers entirely olive, 

 rather more yellow on the outer web ; crown of head slaty grey, 

 with a broad black streak from the base of the forehead to the sides 

 of the nape, followed by a superciliary band of dull ashy ; upper 

 and under edge of eyelid white ; lores and upper part of ear-coverts 

 blackish, as well as the feathers below the eye ; ear-coverts slaty 

 grey, slightly mottled with white spots below the eye ; cheeks and 

 under surface of body whitish, obscured with ashy grey ; abdomen 

 purer white ; sides of neck and sides of body darker ashy grey ; 

 the flanks olive-green, with which colour also the sides of the upper 

 breast are washed ; thighs and under tail-coverts pale olive-yellow, 

 the latter with dusky bases ; axillaries pale olive-yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts duller olive-yellow ; quills dusky below, ashy brown 

 along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5-7 inches, culmen 

 0-55, wing 2-55, tail 2-35, tarsus 1. 



Hah. Brazil. 



a. Ad. sk. Tropical America. Sclater Collection. 



h. Ad. sk. Brazil. Gould Collection. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Collection. 



e. Ad. st. Brazil. Edwin Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



/, ij. S ? S'd- sk. Pelotas, Rio Grande Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 do Sul (Joyiier). 



27. Basileuterus leucophrys. 



Basdeuterus leucophrys, Pclz. Orn. Bras. pp. 72, 137 (1871). 

 Setophaga leucophrys", Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 245, no. 3553 (1860). 



Adult. Head slate-colour, obsolctely margined with black on both 



