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2. Amaurospiza aequatorialis. 



Adult male. Similar to A. coneolor, hut with a somewhat lighter 

 bluish shade ou the upper parts, especially ou the head, which is 

 paler slaty blue ou the forehead and eyebrow, these parts contrasting 

 with the black lores and ear-coverts. Total length 4-5 inches, cul- 

 men 04, wing 2*4o, tail 1"85, tarsus - 7. 



Adalt female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 light tawny brown ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and 

 greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky 

 brown, externally like the back ; the primaries edged with whity 

 brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts a littlo clearer tawny brown 

 than the back ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with tawny brown ; 

 crown of head, sides of face, and ear-coverts dull tawuy brown, a 

 little lighter above the eye ; cheeks and under surface of body 

 tawny, a little paler on the breast and abdomen ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries pale tawny ; quills below dusky brown, ashy along 

 the inner edge. Total length 4 inches, culmen (>35, wing 2 - 25, 

 tail 1*65, tarsus 065. 



Hah. Ecuador. 



a. tf ad. sk. Pallatanga, Ecuador (Z. Sclater Coll. (Type 



Fraser). of species.) 



b. 2 a d. sk. Balzar Mountains, Ecua- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



dor (Illingworth). 



3. Amaurospiza axillaris.* 



Adult male. Similar to A. coneolor, but darker, the general colour 

 being black with a slaty-grey wash, but the crown of the head, sides 

 of face, and under surface of the body are entirely black, the flanks 



* Amaurospiza oerulatra. 



Amaurospiza cserulatra, Cab. J. f. O. I860, p. 387. 



Goniaphea cajrulatra, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 103, no. 7545 (1870). 



Hab. Rio, Brazil. 



The description reads very much like that of A. axillaris, but no mention is 

 made of the white under wing-coverts and axillaries. 



Amaurospiza fringilloides. 

 Oryzoborus ? fringilloides, Pels. Orn. Bras. p. 329 (1870). 

 Goniaphea fringilloides, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 103, no. 7543 (1870). 



Adult female. Cinnamon-brown ; throat, middle of lower breast, and abdomen 

 rufescent white ; bill similar in shape to that of O. unicolor, elongated and 

 Finch-like, dull ashy; feet also dull ashy. Total length 5" 9"', wing 2" 4'", 

 tail 2" 4'", bill from gape in a straight line 6"', tail 7-j'". (Pelzeln.) 



Hab. River Xie, Brazil. 



Judging from the coloration of the sexes in the Ecuador species, A. fringil- 

 loides is most probably the temale of my A. axillaris, but direct comparison is 

 necessary. 



