140 FRINGILLIDJE. 



bill {Mus. Berol.). Probably not to be distinguished from 8. 

 moreleil. 



Spermophila melanops. 



Spermophila melanops, Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 224, 331 (ex Natterer, 

 MSS.) ; Scl. Ibis, 1871, p. 21. 



Head, neck, ear-coverts, and throat black, strongly defined ; back 

 yellowish dusky ash-colour ; belly brownish white, the flanks washed 

 with ochreous ; quills with a white spot on the base. Total length 

 4.4", wing 2" 1'", tail 1" 7'", bill from gape 4'", tarsus 6|"'. (Pelzeln.) 



Hob. Brazil. 



Nearly allied to S. cceridescens. 



Spermophila melanogaster. 



Spermophila melanogaster, Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 225, 332 (1871, ex 

 Natterer, MSS.) ; Scl. Ibis, 1871, p. 21. 



Upper surface of body and sides of neck, as well as of the breast 

 and abdomen, ashy grey ; rump a little clearer ; the underparts 

 black from the throat, except the anal plumes and the thighs, which 

 are whitish ; quills dusky brown, white at the base (except the 

 first four) ; tail-feathers dusky browu, margined with ashy. Total 

 length 4" 3'", wing 2" 2'", tail H", bill from gape 4'", tarsus 6|'", 

 (Pelzeln.) 



Hob. Brazil. 



Spermophila ruficollis. 



Spermophila ruficollis, LicJd. MSS. in Mus. Berol. 



Sporophila ruficollis, Cab. Mus. Rein. Th. i. p. 150, note (1850). 



Spermophila ruficollis, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 225; Scl. Ibis, 1871, p. 21. 



Hab. Brazil. 



Allied to $. hypoxantha, of which it is perhaps the young bird, 

 but differing in its whitish breast and abdomen, these parts only 

 tinged with rufous. (Cf. Sclater. I. c.)* 



* Besides these species there are several enumerated in the ' Hand-list of 

 Birds ' which we have not been able to determine : — 



(7585) Spermophila superciliosus. Florida. 

 (7R08) Spermophila mojstus. Brazil. 

 (7611) Spermophila corallinus. Brazil. 



To these must be added — 



Sporophila othello, Bp. Consp. i. p. 498, 



which is either Oryzoborus funereus or Spermophila corvina (cf. Salv. <$■ Godm. 

 Biol. Centr.-Amcr., Aves, i. p. 357). 



