17. SPERMOPHILA. Ill 



rump and on the under surface. There is considerable difference in 

 the depth of the chestnut colour in a series of males, and the pale 

 coloration of the young male tends to prove that the richness of tint 

 increases with age, the younger birds inclining to cinnamon rather 

 tnan chestnut. 



Hah Prom Panama through Colombia and Venezuela to Guiana ; 

 Trinidad; Tobago; Para. 



a,b.dad.-c,d, Lion Hill Station, Panama Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 e. 2 ad. sk. (McLeannan). 



f,g. (J? ad. sk. Medellin, Colombia (T. K. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salmon). 

 h. rf ad. sk. Bogota, Colombia. Sclater Coll. 



*. rfad.sk. Georgetown, British Guiana Sclater Coll. 



(Brown), 

 k. rf ad. sk. British Guiana (H. Whitdy). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



l- djuv.sk. Roraima, British Giuana, Salvin-Godman Coll 



June 19, 1883 (H. W.). 

 m. rfad.sk. Roraima Jan. 11, 1883 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Ji. Jr.). 

 n. 2 ad. sk. Roraima Nov. 30, 1881 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. Jr.). 

 °- da } n s \ . £avenne. Sclater Coll. 



P, q. rf 2 ad. sk. Tobago {Kirk). Sclater Coll. 



."5 "2+ ? ar f" • R.Graham, Esq. rP.l. 



s. rf ad. st. S. America. Purchased. * L J 



16. Spermophila hypoxantha. 



Pico grueso pardo y canela, Azara, Apunt. i. p 444 (18021 



S^.r" lta(MCCX " ) ' d, ° rL ^ Za - fr - $> n - A *-> *£• deZool. 



Spermophila mjnuta (nee L.), Hartl, Inch Azara, p. 8 (1847) 

 Sporophila hypoxantha, Cab. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 150, note (1850) • 

 £*fe Mmencl. Av. p. 45 (1854),- Burm. A. K M 



(IbOb, pt.J. r 



Spermophila hypoxantha, Peh. On,. Bras. p. 225 (1871) ; Scl Ibis, 



pr'J'iUo Lf I ? m '\ ent i Av - Neotr - P- 28 < 1873 ) : iid - 



F.Z. &. 18/9, p. t.04; Sale. Cat. Striekl. Coll. p. 221 (1882V 

 (1870r Vn h yP° xailtbu s, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 105, no. 7584 



Adult male. General colour above pale slaty grey, the lower back 

 and rump pale cinnamon-rufous, washed with ochre, a tinge of the 

 latter colour being visible on the scapulars ; lesser wing-coverts 

 ochreous brown ; median and greater coverts blackish brown ed°-ed 

 with ochreous brown, whitish near the end of the outer web- bastard 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, edged with paler 

 brown, more ochreous on the inner secondaries, the rest of the 

 secondaries distinctly edged with hoary white, the primaries nar- 

 rowly fringed with the same ; the inner primaries white at the base 



If 6 * 1 fT^ £ r T! a *P e ? ulum ' U PP er ^coverts slaty 

 gie^ ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with ashy or ashy brown and 

 margined at the tip with whity brown ; crown of head like the 



