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5. Sycalis taczanowskii *. 



Gnathospiza raimondi, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 320, 750, pi. xxxvi. 



fig. 1 ; id. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 6 (1886). 

 Gyrhinorhynchus flavomentum (?), Gray, Hand-l. B, ii. p. 107, no. 



7628 (1870, numeti nudum). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, with blackish-brown 

 centres to the feathers of the mantle and back, which are also washed 

 with ashy ; rump uniform ashy brown ; wing-coverts brown, darker 

 in the centre and edged with rufous ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills dark brown, edged with whity brown, the primaries edged 

 with olive-yellow, the inner secondaries with rufous bike the greater 

 coverts : upper tail-coverts dusky brown, edged with yellow ; tail- 

 feathers blackish, edged with whity brown, with a good deal of 

 yellow towards the base ; crown of head like tbe back and similarly 

 mottled with dark centres to the feathers, the head washed also 

 with yellow, more distinctly on the sides of the crown ; lores and 

 feathers round the eye yellow ; eyelid whitish ; ear-coverts and 

 cheeks ashy brown, washed with yellow ; cheeks ashy whitish, the 

 chin yellow ; sides of Deck ashy brown ; fore neck with a yellow 

 patch ; remainder of under surface white, with a faint tinge of 

 yellow ; sides of body and flanks light brown, the latter narrowly 

 streaked with dark brown ; thighs ashy whitish ; under tail-coverts 

 yellow, ashy whitish at the ends ; under wing-coverts ashy whitish, 

 the edge of the wing mottled with dark bases, and washed with 

 yellow ; axillaries yellow, with ashy-whitish bases ; quills below 

 dusky, isabelline along the inner edge. Total length 5 inches, 

 culmen 0*45, wing 2-65, tail 1/7, tarsus 0*7. 



Two specimens, collected by Capt. Kellett and Lieut. Wood, are 

 greyer than the bird described, and the margins to the wing-coverts 

 and quills are whitish and not rufous. The under surface of the 

 body is whiter, and there is no yellow on the fore neck. 



Hub. Peru and Ecuador. 



a. $ ad. sk. Tumbez, Peru (Jelski). Sclater Coll. 



b, c. Ad. sk. St. Elena Bay. Capt. Kellett and Lieut. 



Wood [P.]. 



* As already stated, I regard this species as nothiug more than a thick- 

 billed Sycalis, and its name should therefore be Sycalis raimondi (Tacz.) ; but as 

 Dr. Taczanowski has already bestowed this name on the Peruvian & iuteiven- 

 tris, I propose to call the species after the original describer, whose standard 

 work on the Ornithology of Peru has been of such assistance to myself and 

 all students of South-American ornithology. The locality "N.W. coast of 

 America," assigned by the late G. R. Gray to his G. flavomentum, is clearly a 

 mistake. 



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