430 MNIOTILTrD^. 



ear-coverts ashy grey, slightly washed with olive-brown ; the lores 

 ashy white ; eyelid wMtish ; feathers below the eye spotted with 

 dull white ; entire under surface of body bright yellow, iucliniiig to 

 orange on the throat and fore neck, and becoming paler sulphur- 

 yellow on the under taU-coverts ; sides of neck and sides of upper 

 breast slaty grey ; flanks olive-brown ; thighs slaty grey ; axiUaries 

 and under wing-coverts white, with ashy-black bases ; edge of wing 

 washed with yellow ; quills blackish, ashy along the edge of the 

 inner web. Total length 5'5 inches, culmen 0"5, wing 2'o5, tail 

 2-o5, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. Not to bo distinguished from the male in colour, 

 but with less white on the third tail-feather. Total length 5-2 

 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-5, tail 2--i, tarsus 0"75. 



Mab, British Guiana. 



a. (S ; b, c. 2 ad. Eoraima, Aug. {H. Wldtely). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 sk. 



d. c? ad. sk. Roraima, Aug. 10 {H. W.). Sclater Collection. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Roraima, Sept. 7 {H. W.). Sclater Collection. 



f. cS ad. sk. Roraima, Sept. {H. W.). Salvin-Godman CoU. 



15. Setophaga lachrymosa. 



Eutlilypis lachrymosus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 19, note (1850) ; 



ScLP. Z. S. 1856, p. 291, 1859, p. 363; Salo. Sf Scl. Ibis, 1860, 



p. -27 A ; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 36 (186:2) ; Sumichr. Mem. Bost. 



Soc. JV. H. i. p. 546 (1809) ; Lawr. op. cit. ii. p. 270 (1874). 

 Basileuterus lachrymosus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 314 (1850). 

 Setophaga lachiymosa, Baird, Revieiv Amer. B. p. 263 (1865) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 244, no. 3539 (1869) ; Scl. Sf Salv. Nomcncl. Av. 



Neotr. p. 11 (1873) ; Sah. Ibis, 1878, p. 320 ; id. ^ Godm. Biol. 



Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 136, tab. 11. fig. 2 (1881). 



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

 with oHve on the mantle and back ; lesser wing-coverts like the back, 

 the median and greater series also slaty grey, black internally ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts black ; quills black, externally 

 margined with slaty grey ; upper tail-coverts slaty grey like the 

 rump ; tail-feathers black, edged with slaty grey, all the four outer 

 feathers with a conspicuous white spot on the tip ; centre of crown 

 bright yellow, the feathers tipped with black ; forehead and sides of 

 the crown black, as well as the lores, feathers below the eye, and 

 fore i^art of cheeks ; in the centre of the lores a spot of white ; a 

 streak along the sides of the crown behind the eye, ear-coverts, 

 hinder cheeks, and sides of neck slaty grey ; base of chin white, as 

 well as a faint indication of a malar line ; remainder of under sur- 

 face of body dull orange, the centre of the breast and abdomen 

 briUiaut lemon-yeUow ; sides of breast and flanks ashy grey, the 

 latter with subterminal bars of wliite and washed with olive ; thighs 

 slaty grey ; under taU-coverts white, washed with yellow near 

 the base ;' under wing-coverts and axillaries dark slaty grey, blacker 

 near the edge of the wing ; ijuiUs dusky below, ashy along the edge 



