17. SPERMOPHILA. 121 



Adult female. General colour above light brown, somewhat ashy 

 on the head and mantle, the lesser wing-coverts like the back ; 

 median and greater coverts blackish, edged with light brown, tinged 

 with rufous ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, 

 edged with pale brown, the primaries fringed with ashy ; upper 

 tail-coverts and tail-feathers light brown, with paler brown margins ; 

 lores fulvous ; eyelid buffy white ; ear-coverts, cheeks, and under 

 surface of body light fulvous brown, whiter along the centre of the 

 breast and abdomen : sides of body and flanks pale brown, as also 

 the thighs and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts white, faintly 

 washed with brown ; axillaries white ; quills below dusky, white 

 towards the base of the inner edge. Total length 4 - 3 inches, 

 culmen 0-4, wing 2-15, tail T75, tarsus 06. 



Eab. Ecuador. 



a, b. $ $ ad. sk. Babahoyo, Ecuador (L. Sclater Coll. 



Fraser). (Types of species.) 



c. $ ad. sk. Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Dec. 1859 Sclater Coll. 



(L. Fraser). 



d. 3 juv. sk. Esmeraldas, Nov. 1859. L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 



e. cJad.sk. Ecuador (C. Buckley). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



f. c? ad. sk. Santa Rita Mountains, Salvin-GodmanColl. 



Ecuador ( Villagomez). 

 cj. S ad. sk. Choco Bav. Capt. Kellett and 



Lieut. Wood [P.]. 

 h. cS ad. sk. Ecuador. Gould Coll. 



26. Spermophila lineata. 



Radiated Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 156 (1783). 



Loxia lineata, Gm. S. N. i. p. 858 (1788) *. 



? Pico grueso negro y bianco, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 458 (1802) f- 



? Coccothraustes leucoptera, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiii. 



p. 521 (1817, ex Azara). 

 Pyrrhula misya, Vieill. Ois. Chant, pi. 46 (1805). 

 Loxia leucopterygia, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 45, pi. lviii. fig. 3 



(1825). 

 ? Spermophila leucoptera, Hart I. Ind. Azara, p. 9 (1847). 

 Spermophila mysia, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 380 (1844) ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 490 (1850) ; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 104 (1802). 

 Spermophila leucopterygia, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 380 (1844) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 490 (1850). 

 Sporophila lineata, Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 245 (1856). 

 Spermophila lineata, Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 104 (1802) ; id. ty Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1807, p. 572; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 438 (1871) ; Scl. Ibis, 



1871, p. 11 ; id. <Sj- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 28 (1873) ; Salv. 



Ibis, 1885, p. 214. 



* The description is bad, and is very doubtfully referable to the present 

 species. Traditional usage, however, has sanctioned its application, and no 

 change in these present days is desirable. 



t According to Sclater, but the locality places some doubt on the identifi- 

 cation. 



