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«. [d" ad.] sk. Bogota, U. S. Colombia. Salvin-Gochnan Coll. 



b. [J ad.j sk. Bogota. Gould Coll. 



c , d - [ 6 ? ad.] Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



sk. 



e. [<$ ad.] sk. Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta Salviu-Godrnan Coll. 



(F. Simons). 



/^•[c? $ ad.] Medellia (T. K. Salmon). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sk. 



h,i,k. cJad. sk. Retiro, Antioquia (T. K. Sal- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



mon). 



I. 3 ad. sk. Retiro, Antioquia (T. K. Sal- Sclater Coll. 



mon). 



to. § ad. sk. Concordia, Antioquia (T. K. Sclater Coll. 



Salmon). 



n.\_S ad.]sk. Venezuela. Mr. C. Dyson [C.]. 



o. 3 ad. sk. Merida, Venezuela (A. Goering). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



p. 3 ad. sk. Caracas, Venezuela (A. Goering). Sclater Coll. 



q. [3 ad.] sk. Ecuador (C. Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



r. 3 ad. ; s. Tambillo, Peru (Stolzmann). Sclater Coll. 



Juv. sk. 



10. Chrysoniitris xanthogaster. 



Chrvsomitris xanthogastra, Du Bus, Bull. R. Acad. Belg. xxii. pt. 1, 

 p" 152 (1855) : Scl. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 78-5 ; Wijatt, R>is, 

 1871, p. 328; Scl. § Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 34 (1873, pt.) ; 

 lid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 508. 



Chrvsomitris brvanti, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1865, p. 91 ; Lawr. 

 Ami. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 103 (1838) ; Frantz. J f. O. 1869, p. 302. 



Fringilla columbiana, pt., Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 81, no. 7187 (1870). 



Fringilla bryanti, Gray, t. c. p. 81, no. 7191 (1870). 



Chrvsomitiis xanthogaster, Salvia ty Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., 

 Aves, i. p. 430, tab. xxxi. fig. 3 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above uniform black, including the 

 whole of the wing-coverts, bastard-wing, and primary- coverts ; quills 

 black, yellow at the base, with black shafts, the black increasing in 

 the region of the shafts on the secondaries, ths innermost of which 

 are entirely black ; upper tail-coverts and centre tail-feathers black, 

 the remainder yellow for the basal half; head all round, sides of 

 neck, and entire throat black ; remainder of under surface yellow, 

 greener on the side3 of body and flanks ; thighs black ; under tail- 

 coverts yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries yellow, the 

 former with blackish bases ; quills below blackish, yellow towards 

 the base of the inner web. Total length 4o inches, culmen 0*4, 

 wing 2-6, tail 1-5, tarsus 0*6. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 dull olive-green ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and 

 greater coverts dusky blackish, tipped with pale olive-green, whitish 

 at the ends : bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills duskj r 

 blackish, fringed with pale olive-green, whitish at the ends of the 

 secondaries; upper tail-coverts like the back; tail-feathers dusky 

 blackish, edged with olive-green ; crown of head like the back ; 

 lores olive-yellow : sides of face olive-greenish, a little yellower on 



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