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11. Setophaga chrysops. 



Setopliaga flaveola, Kaup, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 50 (nee Lafr.). 

 Setophaga chrysops, Salv. Ibis, 1878, p. 314, pi. 7. fig. 2. 



Adult male. General colour above dark slaty grey, with a faint 

 tinge of olive ; lesser wing- coverts like the back ; median and 

 greater coverts black, narrowly edged with slaty grey like the back ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, the latter with 

 narrow margins of slaty grey ; upper tail-coverts black ; tail-feathers 

 black, the two outer ones white, with an oblique black mark across 

 the base of the inner web, more extended on the penultimate 

 feather, the third one just tipped with white ; crown of head and 

 nape black, with chestnut bases to the feathers adjoining the yellow 

 forehead ; feathers round the eye forming a broad ring of golden 

 yellow ; the forehead deep orange-yellow, as well as the cheeks ; 

 ear-coverts black, with a small posterior patch of yellowish- white 

 plumes ; sides of neck slaty grey ; entire iinder surface of body 

 golden yellow, rather paler on the lower flanks ; sides of upper 

 breast dark slaty grey ; thighs dark slaty grey ; under tail-coverts 

 white, with blackish bases ; axillarics very pale yellow or white, 

 with ashy bases : under wing-coverts black, edged with white or 

 pale yellow; quills blackish below, ashy whitish along the edge of 

 the inner web. Total length 5-6 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-85, 

 tail 2-6, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult (?) female. Slightly paler than the male, both above and 

 below, and not showing the chestnut bases to the black coronal 

 feathers. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 2'G, tail 2-6, 

 tarsus 0'8. 



Toung male. Paler in colour than the adult male, and having 

 the black coronal patch much less strongly pronounced and washed 

 with olive ; no chestnut bases to the black feathers on the head ; 

 penultimate tail-feather with a slight blackish fringe near the edge 

 of the outer web ; the white tip to the third tail-feather obsolete. 



Hah. Colombia. 



a. c? ad. sk. Santa Elena, Autioquia Salvin-Godman CoU. 



{T. K. Sahnmi). (Type of species.) 



h. (5 ad. sk. Santa Elena, Antioquia Sclater Collection. 



{T. K. Salmon). 



e,d. (S $ ad. sk. Santa Elena, Antioquia. T. K. Salmon, Esq. [C], 



e. 5 ad. sk. Froutino, Colombia {T. K. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sahnon). 



f. Ad. sk. Retiro, Colombia {T. K. Sclater Collection. 



Salmon). 



12. Setophaga melanocephala. 



Setophaga melanocephala, Tschudiin Wicym. Arch. x. p. 276 (1844); 

 Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 2fi.j (1840); Bjy. Consp. i. p. 313 (1850); 

 Kaup, P. Z. S. 1851 , p. 50 ; Tschndi, Faun. Peruan. p. 192, Taf. 12. 



