4 CCERERID^. 



Above plumbeous, head, wings, and tail darker ; below ferruginous 

 red ; throat plumbeous like the back ; under wing-coverts red like 

 the bellj' ; upper mandible dark, lower and feet carneous : whole 

 length 4-5 inches, wing '2-4:, tail 1"9. Female. Olive-green : wings 

 and tail blackish, edged with olive ; secondaries broadly edged with 

 pale fuscous ; below pale yellowish olive. 



Hab. S. Mexico and Guatemala. 



Guatemalan specimens have less plumbeous on the throat, thereby 

 approaching D. siitoides. 



Purchased. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 



Zool. Soc. Coll. (Type 

 of Ai/rilor/iinus olivaceun.) 

 Sc'later Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 SaU'in-Godmau Coll. 



Selater CoU. 



Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman CuU. 



Selater Coll. 



2. Diglossa sittoides. 



Serrirostrum sittoides, cVOrb. et Lafr. Syn. Av. ii. p. 25 (1838) ; d'Orb. 



Voy., Ois. p. 374, t. 58. fig. 3. 

 Diglossa sittoides, Bridqes, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 29 ; Gray et Mitch. Gen. 



B. i. p. 137 ; Beich. Handh. p. 233, t. dliv. f. 3766 ; Ca&sin, Pr. Ac. 



So. Phil. 1864, p. 273 ; Grm/, Hand-l. i. p. 118 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. 



p. 15 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, pp. 496 (Antioquia), 596 (Bolivia) ; Tacz. 



P.Z.S. 1874, p. 511, et 1882, p. 8; id. Orn. Perou, i. p. 417 ; 



Scl. Ibis, 1875, p. 208. 

 Diglossa similis, Lafr. Bev. Zool. 1846, p. 318 ; Selater, P. Z. S. 1855, 



p. 138, et 1868, p. 170; id. Cat. A. B. p. 48; Bj). Comp. i. p. 401 ; 



Beich. Handb. p. 233, t. dliv. f. 3764 ; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1864, 



p. 273 ; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 118 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 15. 

 Diglossa hyperythra, Cab. Mus. Ilein. i. p. 97 (1850) (ex Venezuela). 

 Uncirosti-um d'orbignii, Boiss. Bet. Zool. 1840, p. 5. 

 Diglossa d'orbignyi, Beich. Handb. p. 233 ; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 118. 



Above plumbeous, front and sides of head darker : below uniform 

 ferruginous red ; upper mandible dark, lower and feet carneous : 

 whole length 4-4 inches, wing 2*25, tail 1'8. Female. Olive, wings 

 and tail blackish with olive edgings ; below pale yellowish olive. 



Bah. Highlands of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and 

 Bolivia. 



Lafresnaye has been followed by other authors in separating the 



