17. sPERMorniiA. 95 



pommel. Av. Berol. p. 45 (1854) ; Burm. Th. Bras. hi. p. 241 

 (1856). r 



G ^-^ yDcllUS L yP oleucus > Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 105, no. 7579 

 (loiu). 



Adult male. General colour above slaty grey; lesser wing- 

 coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts dusky blackish, 

 edged with slaty grey ; bastard-wing, primarv-coverts, and quills' 

 blackish, fringed with ashy grey, hoary whitish on the primaries, 

 the inner ones of which have white bases to the outer webs, forming 

 a large alar speculum ; upper tail-coverts a little more ashy than' 

 the back ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with ashy grey, and tipped 

 with ashy ; crown of head like the back, slightly mottled with 

 obscure dusky centres to the feathers ; sides of face, lores, feathers 

 round the eye, and ear-coverts slaty grey ; cheeks, throat, and 

 under surface of body white ; sides of neck slatv grey ; lower throat 

 and fore neck washed with ashy grey ; sides of "body and flanks also 

 ashy grey ; thighs white, grey posteriorly ; under tail-coverts white • 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white, with a dusky spot near the 

 edge of the wing ; quills below duskv, edged with ashy along the 

 inner web, which is white at the base" : " bill reddish grey-brown " 

 (Nemvied), " fleshy red " ( W. A. Forbes) ■ " legs greyish brown ; iris 

 greyish brown" (Neuwied), "iris brown " (W. A. Forbes). Total 

 length 4-65 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-3, tail 2, tarsus 0-7. 



I believe that two species are confounded under the heading 

 of S. hypoleuca, for some male birds are entirely white below 

 without any grey on the fore neck. The only argument against 

 the existence of two species is that both forms occur in the same 

 locality, Mr. W. A. Forbes having met with them near Pernam- 

 buco. I would mention, however, that two forms of females, one 

 reddish brown and the other more olive-brown, also occurred in 

 his collection. In one of his white-breasted males the secondaries 

 are also white at the base of the outer web, forming a second alar 

 speculum, which is, however, concealed by the greater coverts. 



Bab. Brazil. 



a. J ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



b. d ad. sk. Rio. Sclater Coll. 



c. d <5 ad ; e, f, g. Bahia ( Wucherer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 2 ad. sk. 



h. 2 ad. sk. Bahia (Wucherer). Sclater Coll. 



i. 2 ad. sk. Bahia (coll. Berlepsch). Sclater Coll. 



k, I. J ad. sk. ; Pernambuco (W. A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



m. § ad. sk. Forbes). 



n,o.S2 ad. sk. Pernambuco ( W. A. Sclater Coll. 



Forbes). 



p. 6 ad. sk. Para. R. Graham, Esq. [C.]. 



