428 MNIOTILTID^. 



%. 2 (1855); Baird, Review Amer. B. p. 258 (1865); Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 243, no. .3521 (1869) ; Salv. Ibis, 1878, p. 312 ; 

 Tacx. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 7 ; id. Orn. Perou, i. p. 479 (1884). 

 Myioboriis melanocepbalus, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 509. 



Adult male. General colour above dark slate-colour, the long 

 rump-feathers washed with pale yellowish-olive at the ends ; wing- 

 coverts like the back, with black bases ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish, narrowly fringed with slaty grey ; upper 

 tail-coverts black : tail-feathers black, the outer ones white, with 

 an oblique blackish mark across the inner web, the penultimate 

 feather having a broader mark of the same character, the white 

 being reduced on the third to a large wedge-shaped mark at the 

 end ; crown of head black, forming a cap : ba'se of forehead bright 

 yellow, continued in a distinct line over the eye and forming an 

 eyebrow ; eyelid yellow, except in front, where it is black like the 

 lores ; ear-coverts black ; sides of neck slaty grey ; cheeks and 

 under surface of body brilliant yellow ; sides of upper breast dark 

 slaty grey, which continues on to the upper flanks, which have also 

 a slight greenish tinge ; thighs dark ashy ; under tail-coverts white, 

 slightly washed with yellow near the vent ; under wing-coveats and 

 axillaries dark slaty grey, narrowly edged with yellow ; edge of 

 wing yellow, the greater series whitish ; quills dusky blackish below, 

 edged with white along the inner web : " bill and feet black ; iris 

 dark brown " (Jelshi). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 

 2-7, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-8. 



The yoimr/ bird in its first plumage has the top of the head grey, 

 a little darker than the back ; the yellow of the throat paler than 

 in the adult ; the yellow eyebrow, as well as the plumelets round 

 the eye, commencing to show by scattered feathers of this colour ; 

 there are also some new black feathers appearing on the head. 

 (Taczanowski.) 



Hah. Peru and Bolivia. 



a. (J ad. sk. Pumamarca, Peru, Jime 5 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Stokmami). 



b. (S ad. sk. Tamiapampa, Peru, Nov. 18 Sclater Collection. 



(^8tolz7nann). 



c. (S ad. sk. Ceutral Peru {Jelshi). Sclater Collection. 



d. Ad. sk. Chachuapata, Peru, Sept. 6 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{H. Wliitehj). 



e. Ad. sk. Bolivia. Mr. Bridges [C.]. 

 /. Ad. St. Bolivia. Mr. Bridges [0.]. 



fj. (S ad.sk. Simacu, Bolivia (C.i?2<c^/ey). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



13. Setophaga brunneiceps. 



Setophaga brunneiceps, UOrh. Voy. Amer. Merid. p. 329, pi. 84. 

 fig. 3 (18.35-44) ; Lafr. &■ D'Orh. Syn. Av. p. 50 (1837); Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 265 (1846) ; Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 37 (1862) ; 

 Baird, Bevieiv Amer. B. p. 258 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B, i. p. 243, 



