253 FOKMU'ARIID-E. 



l)wer back bright chcstnvit ; wings and tail blackish, with olivaceous 

 edgings ; wing-coverts black, broadly tipped with white ; bend of 

 wing and adjoining coverts bright yellow : beneath pale greenish 

 yellow ; throat and breast pale cinereous ; under wing-coverts 

 sulphur-yellow : whole length 4 inches, wing 2-2, tail 1-7. 

 Hah. \'eragua, Colombia, and Ecuador. 



a. <S. '^d. sk. Calobi-e, Veragua {Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



0. cJad.sk. Near Nauegal, Ecuador (i?(«cA;%). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 c. S ad. sk. Bogota. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



'i. Jad. sk. Bogota. Purchased. _ (Type of 



the species.) 



3. Terenura humeralis. 



Terenura humeralis, Scl. et Scilv. P. Z. S. 1830, p. 159 (Ecuador); 

 iid. Ibis, 1881, p. 270, 1)1. ix. figs. 2, 3. 



Above olivaceous ; cap and nape black ; lores and sides of head 

 pale grey ; lower back, bend of wing, and adjoining smaller coverts 

 bright chestnut, middle and greater coverts blackish, with broad 

 tips of pale yellow : beneath pale cinereous ; abdomen pale yellowish ; 

 under wing-coverts pale yellow : whole length 3-6 inches, wing 2, 

 tail I'o. Female similar, but cap brownish, and without the chest- 

 nut on the wings. 



Bab. Eastern Ecuador. 



Immediately distinguishable from T.caJUnotahy its chestnut bend 

 of the wing. 



a,b. (S 2 ^^- sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador {Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Types of the species.) 

 c. (S ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador {Bucldey). Sclater Coll. 



4. Terenura spodioptila. 



Terenura spodioptila, Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1881, p. 270, pi. ix. fig. 1 

 (Brit. Guiana) ; Salv. Ibis, 1885, p. 426. 



Above dark cinereous : superciliaries white ; cap black ; sides of 

 head pale cinereous ; back bright chestnut ; wing-coverts with 

 broad white ends : beneath pale cinereous, white on the throat and 

 breast; under wing coverts white : whole length 3-7 inches, wing 

 1-9, tail 1-5. Female similar, but head brownish, and throat shghtly 

 dusky. 



Eab. British Guiana. 



Eeadily known from the two preceding species by the want of 

 any bright colour on the bend of the wing, and the pale cinereous 

 belly. 



a. (J ad. sk. B.irtica Grove, Brit. Guiana Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( Whitehj). (T.ype of the species.) 



b,c. cJ 5 ad.sk. Camacusa, Brit. Guiana Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



( Whitely). 



