17. BASILEUTERUS. 405 



c. M. sk. Quito. Gould Collection. 



d. Ad. sk. Santa Rita Mountains, Salvin-Godman Collection. 



Ecuador ( Villagomez). 



e. (^ ad. sk, Bogota (Crowther). Salvin-Godman Collection. 



Subsp. a. Basileuterus uropygialis. 



Basileuterus uropygialis, Scl. P. Z. S. 18G1, p. 128 ; id. Cat. Amer. 

 B. p. 35 (1862) ; id. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 286, pi. 10. fig. 2 ; id. ^ Salv 

 P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 749, 754 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 257 ; iid. No- 

 mend. Av. Neotr. p. 10 (1873) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 509, 1882, 

 p. 6 ; id. Oni. Perou, p. 478 (1884). 



Setopkaga uropygialis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 244, no. 3545 (1869). 



Adult (type of species). General colour above dull olive-greenish 

 with a shade of ashy grey ; rump and upper tail-coverts ochreous 

 buff; wing-coverts like the back; bastard- wing and primary-coverts 

 dark sej)ia-brown, the former rather more ashy externally, the 

 latter obsoletely edged with oUve-green ; quills dark sepia-brown, 

 externally edged with dark olive-green, a little lighter than the 

 back ; tail-feathers ochreous buff, with a band of brown across the 

 terminal third and washed with pale olive-green on the outer webs, 

 the feathers tipped with a spot of pale ochreous, and the terminal 

 band decreasing iu extent towards the outer feathers, being reduced 

 to a small mark of brown near the end of the outer web ; crown of 

 head and hind neck dark slate-grey, contrasting with the olive back ; 

 the sides of the crown slightly blacker ; a narrow streak of pale 

 sandy rufous from the base of the nostril to the level of the hind 

 part of the eye ; upper and under edge of eyehd and the feathers 

 below the eye also sandy rufous ; lores black, as also a spot behind 

 the eye and the anterior and posterior margins of the eyelid ; ear- 

 coverts earthy brown, with narrow sandy-buff shaft-lines; sides of 

 neck behind the ear-coverts pale sandy rufous ; cheeks and throat 

 also pale sandy rufous, a little more ashy on the fore neck and 

 breast : abdomen white ; under tail-coverts white, slightly washed 

 with buff ; sides of body and flanks earthy brown, with a slight 

 reddish tinge on the latter ; axillaries and under wing coverts oUve- 

 brown, with a pale reddish edge to the wing. Total length 5 inches, 

 culmcn 0-5, wing 2-7, tail 2-15, tarsus 0-85. 



Hah. Colombia and Ecuador, extending into Peru. Mr. Bartlett's 

 skins from Santa Cruz and Chyavetas, as weU as Mr. Salmon's from 

 Antioquia, are intermediate between this species and B. semicervlnus. 



a. Ad. sk. [Ecuador.] Sclater Collection. (Type 



of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (C Sclater Collection. 



Buckley). 



c. d. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (C. Sahdu-Godman CoU. 



Buckley), 

 e. Ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Collection. 



/. Ad. sk. llemedios, Antioquia Sclater Collection. 



(Salmo7i). 



