POLIOPTILA 449 



7. Polioptila sclateri. 

 Polioptila nigriceps {nee Baird), Salv. Sf Godm. Ibis, 1880, p. 116. 



Adult male. General colour above dark French grey, with whitish 

 tips to the long feathers of the rump ; wing-coverts dusky, externally 

 edged with the same grey as the back ; bastard- wing black ; primary- 

 coverts and quills blackish brown, edged with pale grey, rather 

 hoary on the secondaries, all the grey margins very narrow ; upper 

 tail- coverts and tail black, the three outer feathers white at the 

 ends, increasing greatly towards the outermost, which is almost 

 entirely white, excepting a black mark near the base of the inner 

 web, this black increasing on the penultimate feather, uutU on the 

 third it is confined to a spot at the tip ; entire head glossy black, 

 including the lores, feathers round the eye, and a line below the 

 latter and along the upper edge of the ear-coverts ; feathers below 

 the eye and cheeks sUvery white ; throat dull white, a little purer 

 white on the abdomen, thighs, and uuder tail-coverts ; the fore 

 neck, breast, and sides of the body bluish grey ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts white ; quills dusky below, white along the inner web : 

 " iris bright chrome-yellow " {Simons). Total length 4-5 inches, 

 culmen 0-45, wing 1-85, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-7. 



Hah. Venezuela and the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Colombia. 



a. (5 ad. sk. Venezuela {Spence). Sclater Collection. 



(Type of species.) 

 h. cJ ad. sk. Campano, Venezuela, Oct. 5 Salvin-Grodman Coll. 



{A. Goerinff). 

 c, d. (S 2 ^^- sk. Valencia, Sierra Nevada of Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Sauta Marta, May 24 (F. 



Sitnons). 



8. Polioptila bnfiPoni. 



I'iguier a tete noire de Cayenne, Dauhent. PL Enl. vi. pi. 704. fig. 1. 

 Motacilla cffirulea, Bodd. Tabl. PL EnL p. 44 (1783, nee L.). 

 Motacilla crerulea, var. /3, Gm. Si/st. Kat. i. p. 992 (1788). 

 Polioptila leucogastra, pt., Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 12 {nee Nemvied). 

 Polioptila butioni, ScL P.Z. S. 1861, p. 127 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 12 



(18(52) ; Baird, Bevietv Avier. B. p. 70 (1864) ; Graij, Hand-L B. 



i. p. 237, no. 3437 (1869) ; SeL ^ Salv. Xomenel. Av. Neotr. p. 4 



(1873). 



Adult male. General colour above slaty blue, the long sUky 

 plumes of the rump tipped with white ; lesser wing-coverts like 

 the back, the median series with a white spot at the end, the greater 

 coverts conspicuously edged with white near the ends ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts black, with obsolete grey margins ; quills 

 black, the secondaries narrowly edged with ashy, the inner ones 

 externally white, occupying the entire outer web, as well as running 

 round the tip of the feather ; upper taU- coverts and tail-feathers 



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