23. TODTROSTRTJM. 73 



Above black, rump olivaceous ; wings black, lesser wing-coverts 

 yellow, bend of the wing dark chestnut : tail black, outer margin of 

 external rectrix whitish : beneath bright yellow, throat white ; bill 

 and feet black: whole length 3-5 inches, wing 1-9, tail 1*3. 



Hub. Southern Peru. 



The black upper surface renders this species easily recognizable. 



a. J ad.sk. Cosnipata, S. Peru (TVhitely). Sclater Coll. (Type 



of the species.) 



8. Todirostrum guttatum. 



Todirostrum guttatum, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 101 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. 

 p. 45. 



Above yellowish olive : crown and sides of head black, a broad 

 superciliary line behiud the eye yellow ; small loral spot whitish ; 

 wings and tail black, coverts and outer secoudaries broadly edged 

 with yellow, remiges and rectrices narrowly with olive : beneath 

 yellow, chin whitish, throat and breast spotted with black ; bill 

 black ; feet blackish : whole length 3-7 inches, wing 1-6, tail 14. 



Bab. Colombia and Upper Amazonia. 



Easily distinguished from the two other species with spotted 

 throats by the ground-colour of the throat being yellow, not white, 

 and by the yellow postsuperciliary band. 



a. Ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



6. Ad. sk. Pebas, Upper Amazons (Hauzicell). Sclater Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. S. America. Jardine Coll. 



9. Todirostrum maculatum. 



Todus maculatus, Desm. Tang. pi. 70. 



Platvrhynchus maculatus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet, xxvii. p. 19 ; id. Etic. 

 Meth. p. 841. 



Todus cinereus, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 8, pi. 10. fig. 1. 



Todirostrum maculatum, Less. Tr. a" Orn. i. p. 384; Lafr.JRev. Zool. 

 1840, p. 360 ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 83 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 208 ; 

 Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 100; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 18(36, p. 187, 1867, 

 p. 978, 1873, p. 278 ; iid. Nomencl. p. 45 ; Layard, Ibis, 1873, 

 p. 381 (Lower Amazons) ; Salv. Ibis, 1885, p. 292 (Br. Guiana). 



Above olive, crown black ; wings and tail black, edged with 

 yellowish olive : beneath pale yellow, throat white ; throat and 

 breast striated with black ; bill black, pale at the base ; feet 

 brown: whole length 3-5 inches, wing P9, tail 1*3. Female 

 similar. 



a, b. <3 ad. sk. Bartica Grove, Brit. Guiana Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 iWhitely). 



c. Ad. sk. Cayenne. Sclater Coll. 



d. 3 ad. sk. Barcellos, Rio Negro (Natterer). Sclater Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Mexiaua, Lower Amazons Sclater Coll. 



( Wallace). 



