224 TAXAGIUD.E. 



«', /. c? ad. sk. ; A', I. Baliia, Brazil (Witcherer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2 ad. sk. 

 VI. cJ ad. sk. Araguay, Brazil (j\"rt<ferer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Nemosia rourii. 



Nemosia rourei, Cab. J. f. 0. 1870, p. 4-59, et 1872, t. i. fig. 1. 



Above cinereous, beneath ■white ; throat scarlet ; front, sides of 

 head, wings, and tail black ; feet pale : whole length 5'5 inches, 

 ■wing 3-2; tail 2'3. 



Bab. S.E. Brazil. 



A very peculiar species, distinguished by its bright red throat ; 

 and only known from the specimens (procured by Euler on the llio 

 Parahyba do Sul, in S.E. Brazil) in the Beiiin Museum. 



3. Nemosia giiira. 



Sylvia brasiliensis -vii-idis, Sn'ss. Orn. iii. p. 5-53. 



Miitacilla giiira, Linn. S. X. i. p. 33o. 



Hylophilus guira, Max. Beifr. lii. p. 736. 



Nemosia guira, Bp. Omsp. i. p. 236 ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 1.55, et 



1856, p. 109 ; id. Syn. Av. Tan. p. 33 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 87 ; 



Burm. Si/st. Ueb. iii. p. 161; Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 215; Scl. et 



Salv. P.Z. S. 1866, p. 180 (Ucayali), 1873, p. 269 (E. Peru), 



1879, p. 602 (Bolivia); iid. Komencl. p. 23; Salv. Cat. Strickl. 



Coll. p. 195 ; id. Ibis, 1885, p. 212 (Brit. Guian.) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 



1877, p. 744 (N.W. Peru), 1882, p. 15 (N.E. Peru); id. Orn. 



Per. ii. p. 510. 

 Nemosia guirina, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 110 ; id. Syn. Av. Tan. 



p. 34 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 87 ; Tacz. Orn. Per. ii. p. 554 ; Berl. et 



Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 547 (W. Ecuador;; Berl. J.f. O. 1884, 



p. 292 (Bucaramauga). 

 Tang, olive a gorge noire de Cayenne, Daub. PI. Enl. 720. fig. 1. 

 Tanagra nigrigula, Bodd. Tabl. d. PL Enl. p. 45. 

 Tanagra nigricollis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 894. 

 Nemosia nigrisularis, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 87. 

 Guira Warbler, Lath. G. H. vii. p. 193. 

 Pico de punzon amarilla barba negra, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 400. 



Above Yellowish olive-green ; superciliary stripe yellow ; lower 

 back reddish orange, passing into yellow on the upper tail-coverts ; 

 wings and tail blackish, edged with olive ; sides of head and throat 

 black ; sides of neck yellow ; breast rufous-orange ; belly greenish ; 

 flanks cinereous ; crissum yellowish ; irnder wing-coverts white ; 

 bill reddish ; culmen dark brown ; feet brown : whole length 5 

 inches, wing 2-7, tail 2-1. Female. Above olive-green, beneath 

 yellowish ; flanks cinereous ; under wing-coverts white. 



Hah. S. America, from Colombia to Paraguay and Bolivia. 



The various geographical forms of this species are, I now think, 

 scarcely separable, even subspecifically. The Cayenne form (olim 

 N. nirjricolli.s, mihi) is rather smaller in dimensions. 



a. J ad. St. S. America. Baron Laugier's Coll. 



b. c? ad. sk. ; c. (^ Cayenne. Sclater Coll. 

 jr. sk. 



