138 PEINGILLFD^. 



36. Spermophila bicolor. 



Pyrrhula bicolor, D'Orb. $ Lafr. Syn. Av. in May. de Zool. 1837, p. 86 



{nee Gosse, 1847); D'Orb.' Voy. Ame'r. Meri'd., Ois. pi. 50. fig. 1 



(1835-44). 

 Spermophila bicolor, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 386 (1844) ; Scl. Cat.Amer. 



B. p. 103 (1862) ; id. ibis, 1871, p. 17; id. <$• Salv. Nomencl. Av. 



Neotr. p. 28 (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 605. 

 Sporopbila bicolor, Bp. Consp. i. p. 499 (1850). 



Adult male. General colour above black, with a white band across 

 the rump ; wing-coverts black, the median and greater coverts with 

 small white spots at the ends, larger on the ends of the inner coverts 

 forming a white patch ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 black, the bases of the inner primaries and inner secondaries white 

 externally, forming a double alar speculum ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail-feathers black, with a tiny spot of white at the end of the latter ; 

 crown of head, sides of face, and ear-coverts black ; cheeks and 

 under surface of body white, the sides of the upper breast mottled 

 with black bases to the feathers ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white, with a black patch near the edge of the wing ; quills below 

 black, edged with ashy, and white at the base of the inner webs. 

 Total length 5*5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3'45, tail 2*1, tarsus 

 0-65. 



Hah. Bolivia. 



a, b. J ad. sk. Bolivia. Sclater Coll. 



Addendum to the Genus Spermophila. 



There are still several species of Spermophila which I cannot 

 determine, most of them being also left undetermined by Dr. Sclater 

 when he monographed the genus in 1871. 



Spermophila caboclinho. 



Spermophila caboclinho, Pek. Orn.Bras.^- 22 4, 331 (1871, ex Natt. 

 M8S.)\ Sclater, Ibis, 1871, p. 19. 



Young male and female. Similar in colour to the female of 

 /S. ornata (i. e. S. cceralescens), but with the base of the quills broadly 

 white and the wing-coverts black, edged with the colour of the 

 back. Total length 4g", wing 2", tail 1" 9'", bill from gape 4'", 

 tarsus 6'". (Pelzeln.) 



Hob. Eio Janeiro. 



Spermophila cinnamomea. 



Pyrrhula cinnamomea, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 99. 



Spermophila cinnamomea, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 386 (1844) : Pels. 



Orn. Bras. pp. 226, 438 (1871) ; Scl. Ibis, 1871, p. 20. 

 Sporopbila cinnamomea, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 150, note (1850). 



