692 FRTNGILLID-E. 



median and greater coverts black, edged with ashy grey, whitish at 

 the ends, the inner ones slightly tinged with rufous ; bastard-wing 

 and primary-coverts dusky, edged with ashy ; quills dusky hrown, 

 edged with asby brown, inclining to hoary whitish on the margins 

 of the primaries, the first of which is edged with dull white, the 

 secondaries with rufous ; upper tail-coverts ashy, centred with black 

 and washed with rufous ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged with 

 ashy brown, inclining to hoary whitish on the middle ones ; crown 

 of head clear ashy grey, broadly streaked with black centres to the 

 feathers ; hind neck clear ashy grey, more minutely spotted with 

 black ; lores dull white, surmounted by a line of yellow, extending 

 into an eyebrow of pale ashy ; feathers round eye dull whitish ; ear- 

 coverts and sides of face ashy, with a black line above the ear-coverts 

 and a black spot behind them; cheeks and throat asby whitish; 

 sides of neck ashy grey, streaked with black ; lower throat and fore 

 neck ashy isabelline ; breast and abdomen white : sides of body and 

 flanks brown, as also the thighs ; under tail-coverts pale isabelline ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy whitish, those near the edge 

 of the wing bright yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner 

 edge : " bill greyish brown, reddish white at the base of the under 

 mandible, blackish on the tip ; feet pale fleshy brown ; iris yellowish 

 brown " (Nevwied). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 

 2-4, tail 21, tarsus 07. 



In the breeding-plumage the rufous on the upper surface entirely 

 disappears, excepting on the inuer secondaries ; the general colour 

 of the head and back is ashy grey, streaked with black. 



Young birds are altogether browner than the adults, have the fore 

 neck and chest streaked with blackish, and the wing-coverts and 

 inner secondaries with very pale edges. 



I can detect no differences in specimens from various localities, 

 beyond the fact that those from British Guiana are of a duller 

 brown on the fore neck and sides of body ; but I have not been 

 able to compare breeding specimens from this locality with others 

 from Brazil. 



Hob. The greater part of South America, from Guiana, Venezuela, 

 and Colombia to S. Brazil and Bolivia. 



a. J ad. sk. Bogota, U. S. Colombia (Croiv- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



the)-). 



b. 2 a d- sk. Caracas, Venezuela, Aug. 1867 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(A. Goering). 



c. I mm. sk. Trinidad. Purchased. 



d. e. $ 5 a d- s k. Roraima, British Guiana, Dec. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1881 (H. Whitely). 



f, (/■ 6 2 ad. ; Roraima, Nov. 1881 (H. TV.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



h. c?l u v. sk. 



i. S juv. sk. Roraima, May 1883 (H. W.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k. c^juv.sk. Roraima, June 23, 1883 (H. W.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



I. 6 ad. sk. Roraima, Nov. 10, 1881 (H. IF.). Sclater Coll. 



m. 9juv. sk. Roraima, Nov. 14, 1881 (H. W.). Sclater Coll. 



n. Juv. sk. Cayenne. Sclater Coll. 



