200 FRINGILLID^. 



a, b. d ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



c, d. 3 ad. sk. Bogota. Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



e,f. 3 2 ad.sk. Sierra Nevada, Santa Marta, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sept. 9, 1879 (F. Simons), 



g. <5 ad. sk. San Sebastian, Santa Marta, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Aug. 12, 1879 {F. Sun&ns). 



4. Chrysomitris sclateri. 

 Chrysomitris icterica, pt., Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 125 (1862). 



Adult nude. General colour above dull yellowish green, the entire 

 mantle and back mottled with dusky centres to the feathers ; rump 

 bright yellow ; lesser wing-coverts yellowish green like the back, 

 with dusky bases ; median and greater coverts black, tipped with 

 yellow, the latter more broadly ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 black ; quills black, all yellow at base, the secondaries fringed with 

 white at the tips, the innermost margined with yellowish white at 

 the ends ; upper tail-coverts blackish, edged with yellowish green ; 

 tail-feathers black, with a broad yellow base ; crown of head black, 

 forming a cap, the occiput and nape a little yellower than the 

 mantle : lores, feathers below the eye, and upper ear-coverts black ; 

 remainder of ear-coverts, cheeks, and sides of neck bright yellow ; 

 throat and entire under surface of body bright yellow ; centre of 

 abdomen ashy whitish ; sides of body and flanks slightly washed with 

 greenish ; thighs ashy whitish ; under tail-coverts bright yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries yellow ; quills below blackish, yellow 

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

 0-4, wing 2*7, tail T65, tarsus 0-55. 



Adult female. Different from the male, and wanting the black cap. 

 Upper surface dull greenish, mottled with dusky centres to the 

 feathers, the head like the back ; rump bright yellow ; wings and 

 tail as in the male, but the yellow bases to the feathers not so 

 bright ; under surface of body ashy brown, yellowish on the throat 

 and breast ; abdomen white : under tail-coverts deep yellow. Total 

 length 4*2 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2*35, tail 1-5, tarsus 0-5. 



Hob. Ecuador. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Riobamba, Ecuador, June 1858 Sclater Coll. 



(L. Fraser). 



b. $ ad. sk. Cuenca, Ecuador (L. Fraser). Sclater Coll. 



5. Chrysomitris atriceps. 



Chrysomitris atriceps, Salv. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 190 ; id. Ibis, 1866, 

 p. 194 ; Scl. $• Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 34 (1873) ; Ridgiv. 

 Ibis, 1884, p. 43 ; Salvin $ Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, 

 i. p. 429, pi. xxxi. figs. 1, 2. 



Fringilla atriceps, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 81, no. 7180 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above dark olive-green, scarcely 

 lighter on the lower back and rump ; upper tail-coverts dull olive- 



