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brown, edged with the same colour as the back, the greater series 

 rather paler at the ends ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 dusky brown, edged or narrowly fringed with olive-brown ; upper 

 tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers brown, edged with olive- 

 brown ; crown of head like the back ; lores, feathers round eye, ear- 

 coverts, and under surface of body paler olive-brown than the back ; 

 the breast and abdomen pale ochreous buff ; sides of body and Hanks 

 more olive-brown : thighs and under tail-coverts pale ochreous buff; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white, tinged with olive-yellow ; 

 quills below dusky, ashy whitish along their inner edge. Total 

 length 3*5 inches, culmen 03, wing 1*9, tail 1"4, tarsus Oo. 

 Hab. Guiana and Colombia to Lower Amazonia and Peru. 



a. J ad. sk. Bartica Grove, British Guiana, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Feb. 16, 1880 (H. 

 TTliitely). 



b. $ ad.sk. Bartica Grove, British Guiana, Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Nov. 18, 1879 {H. TV.). 



c. rf ad. sk. British Guiana (H. TV.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. (S ad. sk. Guiana. Sclater Coll. 



e. 6 ad. sk. Pebas, E. Peru, Feb. 3, 1867 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(J. HatmoeU). 



f. c? ad. sk. Yquitos, Upper Amazons, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sept. 2, 1878 (H. TV.). 

 ff,h. c? 2 a d- sk. Nauta, Upper Amazons, April E. Bartlett [C.l. 



1865. 

 i. $ ad. sk. Lower Ucavali (E. Bartlett). Sclater Coll. 



k, I. d 2 a d. sk. Cosnipata, Peru, Oct. 1868. H. Whitely [C.]. 



15. Spermophila minuta. 



Loxia minuta, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 307 (1766). 



Bouvreuil a ventre roux de Cayenne, Daub. PI. Enl. v. pi. 319. fig. 3*. 



Bec-rond a ventre roux, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 390 (1778). 



Minute Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 158 (1783). 



Loxia fusciventer, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 20 (1783). 



Pyrrhula minuta, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. iv. p. 299 (1816) ; id. 



8r Bonn. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1026 (1823). 

 Spermophila minuta, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 386 (1844) ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 495 (1850) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 160 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 104 



(1862) ; id. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 352 ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 



vii. p. 333 (1861) ; E. C. Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 83 ; Wyatt, Ibis, 



1871, p. 328 ; Scl. Lbis, 1871, p. 3 ; id. § Salv. Nomenct. Av.Neotr. 



p. 28 (1873) ; Layard, Ibis, 1873, p. 380 ; Scl. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 



1879, p. 506; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 220 (1882); Berlepsch, 



J. f. O. 1884, p. 294 ; id. $ Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. 



p. 351 (1884) ; Salv. Lbis, 1885, p. 214. 

 Spermophila fusciventris, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 386 (1884). 

 Sporophila minuta, Cab. Mm. Hein. Th. i. p. 150 (1850) ; Licht. 



Nomencl. Av. Berol, p. 45 (1854). 

 Gyrinorkynchus minutus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 105, no. 7567 (1870). 



Not a very accurate drawing, the wing-spot being omitted. 



