17. SPERMOPHILA. 123 



ft </• 6 2 ac ^ sk- Bartica Grove, Sept. 25, 1879 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Off. jr.). 



k. c? ad. sk. Albina, Surinam, March 27, Salvin-Godnian Coll. 



1806 (C. Bavtlett). 



i. S ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



k. 3 ad. sk. Island of Mexiana, Jan. 19, Sclater Coll. 



1819 {A. R. Wallace). 



I. cjjuv. sk. Island of Mexiana, Jan. 1819, Sal vin-Godman Coll. 



{A. R. W.). 



m. $ ad. sk. North side of ■ R. Amazon Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(A. R. W.). 



n. $ ad. sk. Para, Oct. 1848 (A. R. IF.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



o, p. cJ ad. et Para. Sclater Coll. 



juv. sk. 



q, r. 3 J ad. sk. Para. R. Graham, Esq. 



[P.]. 



s. <$ ad. sk. Brazil. Gould Coll. 



27. Spermophila moreleti. 



Spermophila morelleti, Rp. Consp. i. p. 497 (1850); Lam; Ann. 



Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 102 (1868) ; Frants. J.f. 0. 1S69, p. 381. 

 Spermophila moreleti, Scl. ty Sal. Ibis, 1859, p. 17 ; Salv. t. c. p. 468 ; 



Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 105 (pt.) ; Scl. §■ Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 36 ; 



Scl. Ibis, 1871, p. 10 (pt.) ; id. fy Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 28 



(1873, pt.) ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 222 (1882) ; Boucard,P. Z. S. 



1883, p. 444; Salv. 8f Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 352 



(1885, pt.). 

 Sporophila morelleti, Cab. J.f. O. 1861, p. 4. 

 Gyrinorhynchus morelleti, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 105, no. 7572 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above black, with a broad band of 

 white across the rump ; wing-coverts black, tipped with white ; 

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

 white at the base of the outer web, forming an alar speculum ; upper 

 tail-coverts and tail-feathers black ; crown of head black like the 

 back ; lores, feathers round eye, ear-coverts, and cheeks black ; 

 malar line, throat, and sides of neck white, the latter extending 

 backwards and forming a halt-collar ; fore neck black, forming a 

 broad collar ; remainder of under surface white, with a slight tinge 

 ofochreous buff; thighs black, tipped with white ; under tail-coverts 

 creamy white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills 

 below black, white at the base of the inner web. Total length 3' 6 

 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2-05, tail 1"6, tarsus 0'6. 



Adult female. Similar to the female of /S'. parva, fully described 

 below. Total length 4 inches, culmen 0'35, wing 1-85, tail 1-55, 

 tarsus 0'6. 



Young male. At first resembling the adult female and then 

 gaining the full black plumage by a moult. Both the black head and 

 the black collar across the fore neck are developed under the brown 

 or buff feathers, but notwithstanding this fact they seem to make 

 their first mature appearance by a direct moult and not by the 

 shedding of the light edges to the feathers. 



Hab. From Yucatan to Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica. 



