20. HELIOCHERA. 391 



p. 520 (Antioquia) et p. 618 (Bolivia); iid. Nomencl. p. 58 ; Wi/att, 

 Ibis, 1871, p. 334 (Colombia) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 540 (C. Peru),.. 

 1879, p. 237, et 1880, p. 203 (N. Peru) ; id. Orn. Per. ii. p. 381 ; 

 Perl. J. f. O. 1884, p. 318 (Bucaranianga) ; Perl, et Tacz. P. Z. S. 

 1884, p. 298, et 1885, p. 93 (Ecuador). 



Above cinereous ; rump black, striped with white ; head black, 

 with an elongated vertical crest of dark chestnut ; wings black, with 

 brownish edgings ; tail black, lateral rectrices with a largo square 

 white blotch on the inner webs near the tail-end, forming a trans- 

 verse band : beneath cinereous, varied with white on the middle of 

 the belly and crissum ; bill with the base chalky white, apex plum- 

 beous ; feet black : whole length 8 inches, wing 4*6, tail 3'6. 

 Female. Without the red crest ; above blackish brown, variegated 

 with white stripes : head and wings brown ; tail blackish, with a 

 white bar across the lower end, as in the male : beneath blackish, 

 abdomen greenish white, with numerous blackish stripes. 



Hob. Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. 



Bogota. Purchased. 



Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



Bogota. Salvin-Godnian Coll. 



Bogota. Purchased. 



Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



U. S. C. (Simons). 



Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Sclater Coll. 



U. S. C. (Simons). 



Medellin, Antioquia (Salmon). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Santa Elena, Antioquia ( Salmon). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



San Lucas, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Matos, Ecuador (Fraser). Sclater Coll. 



Yauavacu, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Vicinity of Quito, Ecuador. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Quito, Ecuador. J. Gould, Esq. 



Ecuador. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Heliochera rufaxilla. 



Ampelis rufaxilla, Tseh. Faun. Per., Ares, t. vii. fig. 1. 

 Ampelion rufaxilla, Cab. in Tsch. Faun. Per., Aves, p. 137. 

 Heliochera rufaxilla, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 58 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, 



p. 520 (Antioquia) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 237, et 1882, p. 24 ; 



id. Orn. Per. ii. p. 383. 



Above olivaceous grey, with obscure dark shaft-spots ; front and 

 sides of crown blackish ; large occipital crest and sides of head bright 

 chestnut ; wings and tail black, with slight brownish edgings : 

 bend of the wing and smaller upper wing-coverts bright chestnut : 

 beneath, throat and fore-neck chestnut : breast olivaceous grey ; 

 abdomen yellow, with strongly-marked black shaft-spots ; bill and 

 feet black : whole length 8 inches, wing 4-5, tail 3. Female 

 similar (*?). 



Hab. Peru and Colombia. 



