20. SETOPHAGA. 423 



blackish below the ej'e and on the fore part of cheeks ; base of chin 

 white ; throat and remainder of under surface of body bright yellow ; 

 sides of breast and flanks slaty grey ; thighs ashy grey ; under tail- 

 coverts white, with ashy-grey bases ; axillaries dark slaty grey, with 

 white tips ; under wing-coverts white ; quills dusky below, ashy 

 whitish along the edge of the inner web: "iris brown" (Goerin;/). 

 Total length 5'6 inches, ciilmen 0*45, wing 2"5, tail 2'5, tarsus 0'75. 



Young. More dusky than the adult, and browner on the upper 

 surface ; forehead and region above the eye blackish ; no nifous 

 crown ; throat rusty ash-brown, with a few bright yellow feathers 

 intermixed; no white on the face or the chin. 



Hah. Merida, Venezuela. 



a. (J ad. sk. Upper Wood-region, Merida Sclater Collection, 



(A. Goering). ( Type of species.) 



b. S ad. ; c. J Sierra Nevada de Merida Sclater Collection, 

 juv. sk. {A. Goeving). 



d, e. (J ad. ; /. (f Sien-a Nevada de Merida Salvin-Godman CoU. 

 juv. sk. (A. Goering). 



7. Setophaga bairdi. 



Setophaga ruficoronata (nee Sj).), Scl. P. Z. S. I808, p, 550, 1860, 

 p. 74 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. -37 (1862) ; Scl. ^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, 

 p. 784; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 11 (1873). 



Setophaga sp., Baird, Peview Amer. B. p. 258 (1865). 



Setophaga bairdi, Salvin, Ibis, 1878, p. 317, pi. viii. fig. 1; Tacs. 

 P. Z. S. 1879, p. 224 ; id. Oi-n. Perou, p. 480 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above dark slaty grey, slightly marked 

 with olive ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater 

 series blackish, externally edged with slaty grey ; bastard-wing and 

 primarv-coverts blackish; quills blackish, externally margined with 

 slaty grey ; upper tail-coverts black : tail-feathers black, the two 

 outer ones white, with an oblique blackish mark on the inner 

 web, broader on the penultimate feather, which has a blackish 

 edging near the tip of the outer web ; forehead and a broad streak 

 along the sides of the crown black ; remainder of crown cinnamon, 

 the hinder feathers tipped with black, like the adjoining feathers of 

 the nape, which are also mottled with black tips ; a line across 

 the base of forehead and a ring of feathers round the eye golden 

 yellow ; lores with a black spot ; a line below the eye and ear- 

 coverts black ; sides of neck slaty grey ; cheeks and under surface 

 of body golden yellow, the fore neck and breast separated from the 

 sides of the neck by a line of black ; sides of upper breast slaty grey ; 

 under tail-coverts white, washed with yellow near the vent ; thighs 

 ashy grey : axillaries pale yellow or yellowish white, with slaty- 

 grey bases : under wing-coverts slaty grey, edged with white ; quills 

 duskv below, ashy white along the edge of the inner web : " bill and 

 feet iilack: iris dark brown" (Stolzmann). Total length 5-2 inches, 

 culmen 0"45. wing 2-7, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-8. 



Obs. The female birds are apparently less brightly coloured than 

 the male, have a paler crown, and much narrower frontal band of 



