3. HYPOXANTHtJS. 29 



narrowly barred with smoky white ; quills dusky brown, the outer 

 webs sjiotted with more or less smoky white, the inner webs of the 

 primaries margined on their basal portion, those of the secondaries 

 spotted along their whole length with white, the innermost of the 

 secondaries being barred across both webs with smoky white ; shafts 

 pale yellow, those of the primaries browner at the base ; rump 

 uniform white ; upper tail-covercs barred black and white : tail 

 nearly black, the central pair of feathers having almost the whole 

 of the inner web and the base of the outer web transversely spotted 

 with buff, and the outer large feather spotted and varied with buff 

 on the margin of the outer web, and tipped with the same ; shafts 

 black : forehead, crown, occiput, and nape dusky slate-grey ; hind 

 neck like the back ; nasal plumes, face, chin, and throat buffy 

 white, the malar region very faintly striped with red ; side of the 

 neck and fore neck, entire underparts and under tail-coverts sandy 

 white, the abdomen tinged with yellow, the side of the neck, fore 

 neck, and chest barred with black, and the latter, as well as the sides 

 of the breast, with a few black spots ; flanks, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts barred with black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale 

 yellowish buff. Total length 12-5 inches, culmen 1-95, wing 6'3o, 

 tail -±-6, tarsus 1-17 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 1, outer 

 posterior 0-85, inner anterior 0-75, inner posterior U-38. 



Adult female. Has no red on the malar region, this being spotted 

 with dusky. Total length 12 inches, culmen 1-7, wing 6-25, 

 tail 4*45, tarsus 1-2. 



Young (sex ?). Has the whole of the top of the head black, trans- 

 versely spotted with dusky buff; the face, chin, and throat duller, 

 the malar region unspotted, the car-coverts and immediately behind 

 the malar region striped with black ; the light tiansverse markings 

 on the upper parts more smoky. 



Hah. Chili. 



a, b. 2 imm. ; Chili. Purchased. 



c. Jiiv. sk. 



d, e. Imm. sk. Chili. Sclater Coll. 



f. $ ad. sk. Santiago, Chili {E. C. Eeed). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



g. d ad. sk. Santiago. Tweeddale Coll. 

 h. Skeleton. ChiU. 



3. HYPOXANTHUS. 



Type. 

 Hypoxanthus, ^/). Consp. Valuer. Zyyod. no. 228 (1854) . . II. rivohi. 



Range. From Venezuela through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, into 

 Bolivia. 



Kcji to the Species.* 



A. "VVing-coverts and outer webs of secondaries 

 almost entirely red ; with red upon the feathers 



* The main cLaracter.s given in the key hold good, but the " spotted " or it 

 may be " uniform " chin and tliroat, although possessed by the species generally, 

 is not constant. Examples of //. riroHi and H. atriccps liave these parts 

 occasionally almost, if not entirely, uniform, and, on the other hand, they are 

 sometimes spotted in H. brcrirostris. The barred (or otherwise) r'umo and 

 upper tail-coverts is a character much more constant. 



