424 MNIOTILTID^. 



black, this being mottled with the golden-yellow bases to the 

 feathers. 



Young. Differs from the adult in having no chestnut crown, its 

 presence being indicated by a few feathers only of the latter colour ; 

 the forehead mottled with a few golden-yellow feathers tipped with 

 black ; rest of the crown slaty grey, like the back. 



Hab. Ecuador to Peru. 



a. c? ad. sk. Matos, Ecuador, June(i^/'«se/'). Sclater Collection. 



6. [ 2 ] ad. sk. Matos {Fraser). Sclater Collection. 



c, d,e. [ c? ? ] ad. Quito. Goidd Collection. 



sk. 



/. Ad. sk. Quito {Bruce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



g. Ad. sk. Sical, Ecuador (C Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



h. Ad. sk. Sical ( C. Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



i, k. Ad. sk. San Lucas, Ecuador ( Villa- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



f/omez). 



I. Juv. sk. Ecuador. Goidd Collection. 



8. Setophaga torquata. 



Setophaga torquata, Baird, Iteview Amer. B. p. 261 (18G5) ; Salvin, 

 P. Z. S. 1867, p. 136 ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 96 (1868) ; 

 Von Frantz. J. f. O. 1860, p. 294 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 243, 

 no. 3526 (1869) ; Scl. S^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 11 (1873)_; 

 Salv. Ibis, 1878, p. 319 ; id. ^ Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. 

 p. 183, tab. 10. fig. 2 (1881). 



Adult. General colour above slaty grey with a slight tinge of 

 olive, rather more distinct on the rump, the long lateral plumes of 

 which are tipped with pale yellow ; wing-coverts blackish, edged 

 with slaty grey ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, 

 more narrowly margined with slaty grey ; upper tail-coverts blackish, 

 washed with slaty grey ; tail-feathers blackish, the two outer ones 

 white with oblique black bases, the white less extensive on the 

 penultimate feather, the third feather with a white line skirting 

 the shaft for more than half the length of its outer Aveb and widen- 

 ing into a terminal spot ; on the head a large chestnut patch occupy- 

 ing the vertex and occiput, the hinder feathers being tipped with 

 black ; sides of crown and a broad band across the forehead black ; 

 base of forehead, lores, eyebrow, feathers round the eye, cheeks, 

 ear-coverts, sides of neck, and throat golden yellow ; breast and 

 abdomen also golden yellow, separated from the throat by a prse- 

 pectoral collar of black, the sides of the upper breast slaty grey ; 

 thighs slaty grey ; under tail-coverts paler j'ellow than the ab- 

 domen ; axillaries pale yellow with ashy-grey bases ; under wing- 

 coverts ashy grey, edged with brighter yellow ; quiUs dusky brown 

 below, edged with pale ashy along the inner web : " bill and feet 

 black " (Salvin). Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0'45, wing 2-45, 

 tail 2-3, tarsus 0-75. 



A second specimen in the .Sclater Collection has the back purer 

 slaty grey without any olive tinge ; the penultimate tail-feather 



