

17. SPJERMOPHILA. 115 



p. 6, pi. i. figs. 1, 2; id. fy Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 28 (1872) : 



ml. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 601. 

 Spovopbila nigrorufa, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 150, note (1850). 

 Gyiinoi'hvnckus nigrorufus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 105 ; no. 7583 



(1870). 



Adult male. General colour above black, tbe mantle, back, and 

 scapulars with remains of sandy-coloured lips to the feathers ; lower 

 back and rump cinnamon-rufous ; wing-coverts black, with sandy 

 margins to the feathers, white on the tips of the greater coverts : 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, the inner primaries 

 white at the base of the outer web, forming a speculum, the inner 

 secondaries edged with white or ashy white ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail-feathers black, fringed with sandy buff or whity brown at the 

 tip ; crown of head black ; hind neck black in the centre, the sides 

 of the neck pale cinnamon-buff, almost forming a collar ; lores 

 white ; feathers round eye black ; ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, and 

 under surface of body cinnamon-buff, deeper and richer in colour on 

 the breast, sides of the body, and flanks : centre of abdomen slightly 

 paler ; thighs pale cinnamon with black bases ; under tail-coverts 

 like the breast ; under wing-coverts white, with black bases, with a 

 patch of black near tho edge of the wing ; axillaries like the breast ; 

 quills below dusky, white at the base of the inner web. Total 

 i length 3-8 inches, culmen 0-3, wing 1-95, tail 1-5, tarsus 0-55. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 brown, slightly mottled with darker centres to the feathers of the 

 back ; rump more fulvescent and slightly tinged with tawny ; lesser 

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

 edged with paler brown, fulvescent on the margins ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills blackish, edged with brown, the inner 

 primaries white at the base of the outer web, forming a small alar 

 speculum, the inner secondaries margined with whity brown ; upper 

 tail-coverts and tail-feathers brown, edged with lighter brown, 

 much paler at the ends of the latter ; crown of head like the back, 

 minutely mottled with dusky centres to the feathers ; lores whitish ; 

 ear-coverts like the crown, but slightly washed with ochre ; cheeks 

 and under surface of body ochreous buff, inclining to pale tawny 

 on the sides of body and flanks ; thighs and under tail-coverts 

 ochreous buff, the latter centred with cinnamon ; under wing-coverts 

 dusky brown, edged with ochreous buff; axillaries like the breast ; 

 qiulls below dusky, white towards the base of the inner web. Total 

 length 4 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2, tail 1*45, tarsus 0*5. 

 Hab. Bolivia and Southern Brazil. 



a, b. <S 2 ad. sk. Matogrosso, Brazil, Oct. 1826 Sclater Coll. 



(J. Natter er). 



20. Spermophila pileata. 



Loxia fraterculus, Ctiv. MSS. in Mus. Paris. ; Less. Traite, p. 451 



(1831). 

 Sporophila mitrata, Lieht. Nomencl. Av. p. 44 (1854, descr. nulla). 

 Rporophila alaudina (nee UOrb. Sf Lafr.), Burm. Th. Bras. ii. 



p. 251 (1856). 



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