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fringhlid^;. 



back; lores a little paler ashy ; sides of face, ear-cover , cheeks 

 aud entire tinder surface of body bright cmnamon-mfous a little 

 paler in the centre of the body ; thighs whitish washed with cin- 

 namon and ashy grey externally ; nnder tail-coverts cmnamon- 

 riXus under ^ng-coverts whitish, washed with cinnamon; 

 ax mSies pSe cinnamon ; a large dusky patch near the edge of h 

 wing, formed by the lower wing-coverts ; quills below dusky ashj 

 wStish along the inner edge and towards the base Total length 

 3-7 inches culmen 0-3, wing 2-2, tail 1-5, tarsus 0-45. 



llTfemale. Different from the male. General colour above 

 olive-brown, a little more sandy on the lower back and rump ; lesser 

 w ng-coverts like the back; median and greater coverts, as well as 

 the Ward-wing, primary-coverts, and qudls dark brown edged 

 with olive-brown, the primares fringed with hoary grey, the inner 

 Les white at the extreme base of the outer web forming a small 

 speculum ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tad-feathers dark 

 brown? fringed Vith olive-brown, and edged with whity brown at 

 thesis ; crLn of head and sides of face like the back the latter a 

 little paler and more ochreous ; throat and under surface of body 

 pale ochreous buff, paler and more yellowish m the centre of the 

 body ; the thighs browner, and the under tail-coverts with a slight 

 reddi h tinge ; under wing-coverts whitish washed with ochre, with 

 a dusky patch formed by the outer coverts ; axillaris white, washed 

 with olive-yellow ; quills below dusky, whitish along the inner edge 

 Tnd towardl the base of the inner web. Total length 3-8 inches, 

 culmen 0-35, wing 2-05, tail 1-5, tarsus 0-5. 



Hah. Brazil. 

 a h. S ? ad. sk. Curytiha, Brazil, Nov. 1820 Sclater Collection. 



( f ^^(itt&yc)*} 

 e. $ ad.sk. Bahia. Sclater Collection. 



17. Spermophila palustris. (Plate II.) 

 Spermophila palustris, Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii. p. 92 

 (1881). 

 Adult male. General colour above blue-grey, with slight ■ ^icafaons 

 of dusky centres on the feathers of the back ; lower back and rump 

 Wnt bay ; wing-coverts blackish, edged with slaty grey ; bastard- 

 win- primary -coverts, and quills blackish, edged with slaty grey, 

 Zf hoary on the primaries/and broader on the inner secondaries, 

 where the margins are white ; the inner primaries white at the base 

 of both webs, forming an alar speculum; upper tail-coverts blue- 

 grey ; tail-feathers du & sky blackish, edged with say grey ; crown of 

 head ike the back and lores : upper edge of eyelid also grey ; lower 

 eyelid, ear-coverts, cheeks, sides of neck throat, and I fore neck 

 white : remainder of under surface bright chestnut; thighs ashj 

 grey • under tail-coverts like the breast ; under wing-coverts whitish 

 S" dusky bases; axillaries like the breast; qudls bel w , dusky 

 ashy along the inner edge, white at the base Total length 3 9 

 inches, cidmen 0-4, wing 2-15, tail 1-55, tarsus 0-55. 



