11. PHETTCTICUS. 53 



Total length 7 inches, culmen 0*85, wing 3-8, tail 2-9, tarsus 

 0-95. 



Peruvian specimens are rather larger (wing 4-2). Berlepsch and 

 Taczanowski point out other slight differences (P. Z. IS. 1884 

 p. 292). 



The descriptions are taken from a pair of birds from Pallatanga, 

 but the characters which separate this species from P. cJirysopephts 

 are not so constant as the above notes would seem to indicate, for 

 the mantle and upper back are often mottled with golden yellow, 

 and are occasionally golden yellow, largely spotted with black, while 

 the primaries are in many specimens margined with white, as in 

 P. chrysopepilus, so that the two species are really very closely allied. 

 On the peculiar geographical distribution of the two, it is scarcely 

 necessary to enlarge, P. chrysopeplus being a Mexican bird, while 

 between its range and that of its near ally interposes the very 

 distinct P. tibialis (of. Saluin $■ Godman, Biol. Oentr.-Amer Aves 

 p. 335). 



Hob. From Venezuela to Ecuador aud Peru. 



a. Ad. at. South America Purchased. 



b. (5 imin. sk. Caracas, Venezuela (A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Goering). 



c. tf ad. sk. Venezuela. Sclater Coll. 



d. $ ad. sk. Sical, Ecuador (C. Buck- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ley). 



e. <$ ad. sk. Santa Rita, Ecuador ( Vil- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



lagomez). 

 f,ff- d 2 ad. sk. Paliatauga, Ecuador (L. Sclater Coll. 



Fraser). 

 h. 2 ad. sk. Cuenca, Ecuador (L. Sclater Coll. 



Fraser). 

 i. (S ad. sk. Quito. J. Gould, Esq. 



A, £ J $ ad. sk. Guayaquil. Capt. Kellett & Lieut 



Wood[PJ. 

 m, n. S 2 ad.sk. Islav, Peru, Sept. H. Whit*4y,Esq.rC.l. 



o,p. 2 ad.sk. Islay, Peru, May 16 (H. Sclater Coll. 



Whitely). 

 q. J juv. sk. Islay, Peru, June 11 (H. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



W.). 

 r. (S ad. sk. Arequipa, Peru {H. W.) Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Pheucticus tibialis. 



Pheucticus tibialis, Later. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 478 (1866, ex 

 Baird, MSS.) ; id. op. cit. ix. p. 102 (1861) ; Salvad. Atti R. 

 Accad. Sci. Torino, iv. p. 177 (1869) ; Frantz. J.f. 0. 1869, p. 300; 

 Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 189 ; Scl, $ Sa/v. t. c. p. 840 ; iid. Nomencl. 

 Av. Neotr. p. 25 (1873) ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 58 ; Salvin $ 

 Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 335 (1884). 



Goniaphea tibialis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 104 ; no. 7551 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above black, slightly varied with 

 olive-yellow margins to the feathers of the mantle and upper 

 back ; lower back golden yellow, streaked with black ; rump golden 



