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1. Sycalis flaveola. 



Le Bruant de Bresil, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 299 (1760) ; Daubent. PL 



JSnl.v.ToL 321. fig. 1*. 

 Pringilla flaveola, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 321 (1766) ; Gray, Hand-!. 



B. ii. p. 84, no: 7228 (1870). 

 Fringilla flava, P. L. S. Mull. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 164 (1776) ; Cass. 



Proc. Philnd. Acad. 1864, p. 254; Gray, Hund-l. B. ii. p. 84, 



no. 7223 (1870). 

 Le Guimegat, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 361 (1778). 

 Brazilian Bunting, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 197 (1783). 

 Eniberiza brasiliensis, 6m. Syst. Nat. i. p. 872 (1781); Lafr. $ 



D'Orb. Pev. et May. de Zool. 1837, p. 73. 

 Frinpilla brasiliensis, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 47, pi. 61. figs. 1, 2 



(1825) ; Nemvied, Beitr. Orn. Brasil. iii. p. 614 (1830) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. ii. p. 372 (1849). 

 Crithagra brasiliensis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 521 (1850). 

 Sycalis brasiliensis, Cab. 8f Tsch. Faun. Permit, p. 215 (1845-46) ; 



Cab. in Schomb. Pels. Gman. iii. p. 679; id. Mus. Hein. Th. i. 



p. 146 (1850); Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 253 (1856); E. C. Taylor, 



Ibis, 1864, p. 83; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 328. 

 Sycalis aureipectus, Bp. C. P. xxxvii. p. 917 (18o5) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 



1855, p. 159 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 126 (1862). 

 Sycalis- flaveola, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 231 (1871) ; Sclater, Ibis, 1872, 



p. 41 ; id. fy Salvin, Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 34 (1873) ; Tacz. 



P. Z. S. 1877, p. 322, 1879, p. 244, 1880, p. 199 ; Scl. $ Salt. 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 607; Salv. $ Godm. Ibis, 1880, p. 123; W. A. 



Forbes, Ibis, 1881, p. 238 ; Salv. Cat. Strickl, Coll. p. 215 (1882) ; 



Berlepsch $ Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 552 ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 217 ; 



Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 55 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above bright olive-yellow, with dusky 

 mesial streaks on the feathers of the mantle and upper back, the 

 lower back and rump more uniform and slightly brighter yellow, 

 the long upper tail-coverts more dingy yellow ; lesser and median 

 coverts uniform bright olive-yellow ; greater coverts dusky blackish, 

 externally yellow, more brilliant on the margins ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, aud quills dusky blackish, edged with bright yel- 

 low, broader and more olive-yellow on the inner secondaries ; tail- 

 feathers dusky blackish, edged with bright yellow externally, and 

 with pale yellow along the inuer web ; crown of head and hind neck 

 uniform bright olive-yellow, the forehead and vertex bright orange ; 

 sides of hinder crown, lores, sides of face, and entire under surface 

 of body bright yellow, tinged with orange on the sides of the face, 

 throat, and fore neck ; sides of body and flanks slightly washed 

 with olive ; thighs, under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and 

 axillaries bright yellow ; quills below dusky, with a broad yellow 

 margin along the inner webs : " upper mandible horn-brown, the 

 lower one pale whitish horn-colour ; feet fleshy brown ; iris greyish 

 brown " (Neuwied). Total length 5-3 inches, eulmen 0-45, wing 

 2-8, tail 1-85, tarsus 0-75. 



A bad figure, apparently intended for a Weaver-bird of some kind. 



