17. SPERMOPHILA. 97 



intermediate between them and the adult male from Panama 

 described above. 



Adult female. General colour above light olive-brown; lesser 

 wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts, bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, edged with olive- 

 brown, the primaries with ashy ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; 

 tail-feathers brown, edged with olive-brown ; crown of head a little 

 more dusky than the back ; lores, feathers round eye and above the 

 latter yellowish olive ; ear-coverts, cheeks, and under surfaces of 

 body also pale yellowish olive, the centre of the breast and abdomen 

 olive-white ; sides of body and Hanks pale olive -brown ; thighs and 

 under tail-coverts like the breast ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white, slightly tinged with yellow ; quills below dusky, edged with 

 ashy along the inner web. Total length 4 - 5 inches, culmen 04, 

 wing 2*1, tail 1-65, tarsus 0*6. . 



Hub. From Guiana to Venezuela ; Trinidad, and Colombia, ex- 

 tending to Panama. 



a. 3 ad. sk. [Brazil.] J. Gould, Esq. 



b. 5 ad. sk. R. Amazon. Sclater Coll. 



c. is ad. sk. Cayenne. Sclater Coll. 



d. e. d> ad. sk. Rorairna, 3500 feet, Jan. 24, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1884 (H. Whitely). 



f. C? &d. sk. Venezuela. Sclater Coll. 



g. S ad. st. Trinidad. Purchased. 



h, i. $ ad. sk. Trinidad. Zoological Society. 



k. J ad. sk. Santa Marta. W. Wilson Saunders, 



Esq. [P.]. 



/. S ad. sk. Medellin, Sept. 1878 (T. K. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salmon). 



m. <5 ad. sk. Envigado, Antioquia (T. K. Sclater Coll. 



Salmon), 



n, o. c? 5 ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



p, q. $ ad. sk. Bogota. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



r,s.<3; t. Jad.sk. Bugaba, Chiriqui (E. Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



u. $ ad. sk. Chiriqui (E. Arcf). Sclater Coll. 



v. c? ad. st. South America. Purchased. 



4. Spermophila plumbea. 



Fringilla plumbea, Neuwied, Beitr. Naturg. Bras. iii. p. 579 (1830). 

 Pyrrhula cinerea, d'Orb. $■ Lafr. Syn. Av., Mag. de Zool. 1837, 



p. 87. 

 Spermophila cinerea, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 386 (1844). 

 Sporophila cinerea, Bp. Consp. i. p. 499 (1850). 

 Sporophila plumbea, Cab. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 149 (1850) ; Burm. 



Th. Bras. iii. p. 242 (1856). 

 Pyrrhula vetula, Natterer, MSS. 

 Spermophila plunibea, Pelz. Om. Bras. pp. 223, 437 (1871) ; Scl. 



Ibis, 1871, p. 18 ; id. # Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 28 (1873) ; iid. 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 605 ; W. O. Forbes, Ibis, 1881, p. 336. 

 Gyrinorhynchus plumbeus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 105, no. 7578 



(1870). 



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