11. PHEUCTICTJS. 57 



Pheucticus henrichrysus (lapsu), Salvin §• Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Amer., Aves, i. p. 334 (1884). 



Adult. General colour above black, slightly mottled on the mantle- 

 feathers with concealed bases of yellow ; rump and lower back golden 

 yellow, spotted with black tips to the feathers ; lesser wing-coverts 

 black ; median and greater coverts black, the inner ones with broad 

 white ends, confined to the outer web of the outer greater coverts ; 

 bastard- wing and primary-coverts black ; quills black, the primaries 

 with conspicuous white bases ; secondaries with small white tips at 

 the end of the inner web, increasing in extent towards the back ; 

 upper tail-coverts black, with a large white spot at the ends ; tail- 

 feathers black, with a large white patch at the end of the inner 

 web, increasing in extent towards the outermost ; crown of head, 

 hind neck, lores, feathers round the eye, and ear-coverts black ; 

 cheeks black, mottled with yellow bases ; entire under surface of 

 body golden yellow, with a little black on the chin ; sides of neck 

 also mottled with black tips to the feathers ; sides of body and 

 flanks with a few black spots ; under tail-coverts white, washed 

 with yellow near the vent; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 golden yellow, with a patch of black near the white base of the 

 primaries ; quills below black, with a conspicuous white base to the 

 primaries. Total length 7"8 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 4-4, tail 3*4, 

 tarsus 1. 



The sexes in this species are apparently alike, but none of those 

 in the British Museum are correctly determined. Some of them, 

 apparently immature, have the head and back strongly mottled with 

 golden-yellow bases to the feathers, and have likewise olive-yellow 

 edgings to the dorsal plumage. There is also in these mottled 

 examples a strongly pronounced eyebrow of golden yellow. 



Young. Differs from the adult in being much more dingy, and 

 is washed with pale fawn-colour on the lower back and rump, and 

 also on the under surface of the body, which is yellow only on the 

 throat and centre of the breast and abdomen ; sides of body and 

 lower abdomen and under tail-coverts dull white, slightly washed 

 with fawn-colour ; crown of head and ear-coverts black, the former 

 with a mesial streak of orange-buff, mottled with black tips to the 

 feathers ; a broad eyebrow of orange-buff. 



Hah. Ecuador. 



a. Ad. ; b. Imrn. sk. Riobamba, Ecuador Sclater Coll. (Types 



(L. Fraser). of species.) 



c, d. Ad. ; e. Juv. sk. Ecuador. Sclater Coll. 



f,ff. Ad.sk. Sical, Ecuador (C Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Buckley). 



