114 FKINGIlLID-ffi. 



primaries white at trie base of the outer web, forming a speculum ; 

 upper tail-coverts black, tipped with brown ; tail-feathers black, 

 narrowly tipped with whity brown and margined with pale brown ; 

 crown of head glossy black as far as the occiput ; nape, hind neck, 

 and sides of neck like the back ; lores whitish ; eyelid black above, 

 cinnamon below ; ear-coverts, cheeks, and under surface of body 

 cinnamon-rufous, washed with ashy ; the sides of body, flanks, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts deeper cinnamon ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white, with a blackish patch near the outer edge of the 

 wing ; quills below dusky, the inner edge ashy, whitish at base. 

 Total length 3-8 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2, tail 1-55, tarsus 0-5. 



In winter the male will probably be found to have the feathers of 

 the crown always edged with brown, one specimen from Bahia in 

 the Sclater collection showing this peculiarity. 



The only male in the collection from Rio has the black crown 

 continued to the hind neck, the black ending somewhat in a point 

 on the nape in all the Bahia specimens. 



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

 coverts like the back; median and greater coverts brown, edged 

 with olive and tipped with yellowish white ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills brown, edged with olive, a little more ashy towards 

 the end of the inner secondaries ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; 

 tail-feathers brown, edged with olive, and paler at the ends of the 

 outer feathers ; crown of head like the back ; lores, feathers round 

 eye, ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, and fore neck ochreous buff with an 

 olive tinge; centre of breast and abdomen yellowish white ; sides of 

 body and flanks olive-brown ; thighs yellowish white ; under tail- 

 coverts ochreous buff, slightly tinged with olive ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white with a slight olive- yellow tinge ; quills 

 below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 3 - 9 inches, 

 culmen 035, wing 2*05, tail 1*6, tarsus 0*55. 



The young male resembles the old female, but is rather darker 

 brown, the quills blacker with a large white wing-spot. The under 

 surface of the body also is more tawny in colour. 



Hah. Southern Brazil. 



a, b. S ad. sk. Pernambuco (W. A. Forbes). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. cJ juv. sk. Pernambuco (W. A. Forbes). Sclater Coll. 



d. S ad. sk. Para. R.Graham, Esq. [P.]. 



e. <3 ad. sk. Bahia. Sclater Coll. 



/, g, h. cJ ad. sk. Bahia ( Wucherer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



i. S ad. sk. Brazil {Natterer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k, I. cj 5 ad. sk. Rio de Janeiro. Sclater Coll. 



m. S ]uv. sk. Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Joyner). 



ii. S ad. sk. South America. Purchased. 



19. Spermophila nigrorufa. 



Pyrrhula nigrorufa, D'Orb. Sf Lafr. Syn. Av. p. 87 (1837). 

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

 i. p. 495 (1850) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 226 (1871) ; Scl. Ibis, 1871, 



