72. AMMODEOMTJS. 693 



o. cJad. sk. Island of Mexiana, Lower Ama- Salvin-Godinan Coll 



zons, Dec. 1848 (A. P. Wal- 

 lace). 



p, q. Ad. sk. Pernambuco ( W. A. Forbes). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



r. Ad. 8k. Pernambuco (W. A. Forbes). Sclater Coll. 



s. Ad. st. Brazil. Admiral Fitzroy [P.]. 



t,u. Ad.sk. Bahia, Brazil (Br. Wucherer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



v, w. Ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



x. Ad. sk. Brazil. M. Claussen [P.]. 



y. d ad. sk. Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Joi/ner). 



z. Ad. sk. Maldonado. Admiral Fitzroy [P.]. 



(Tvpe of A. xanthomus.) 



a. Ad. sk. Monte Video. ' Admiral Fitzroy [P.]. 



b'. d 1 ad. sk. Quilmeo, Buenos Ayres, Dec. Sclater Coll 



1872 (JF. H Hudson). 



c'. cJad.sk. Quilmeo, April 1873 (W. H Sclater Coll. 

 Hudson). 



d'. cJ ad. sk. Cosquin, Cordova, Arg. Rep., Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Sept. 22, 1882 (F. W. White). 



e'. Ad. sk. Bolivia. T. Bridges, Esq. [C ]. 



7. Ammodromus peruanus. 



Coturniculus peruanus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 481 (1850) ; Scl. P. Z S. 



1858, p. 455 ; id. 8f Salv. P. Z. S. 1806, p. 182 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1867, 



pp. 750, 977 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 264 ; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 



p. 32 (1873); Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 521, 1882, p. 17; id. Orn. 



Perou, iii. p. 43 (1886). 

 Ammodromus peruanus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 96, no. 7424 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, tinged with olive, the 

 feathers of the back rather broadly streaked with blackish brown ; 

 rump uniform ashy brown ; lesser wing-coverts olive-yellow ; 

 median and greater coverts dark brown, edged with lighter brown 

 and tinged with olive, rather ashy on the margins ; bastard-wing 

 like the greater coverts ; primary-coverts and quills dark brown, 

 edged with olive-yellow, the secondaries with reddish brown, whitish 

 on the margins of the inner ones ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers 

 dark brown, edged with ashy brown, the latter slightly tinged with 

 olive on the edges ; crown of head brown, the feathers centred with 

 dark brown and strongly washed with olive-yellow, brighter towards 

 the forehead ; hind neck a little more ashy ; lores and a line above 

 the eye bright yellow ; feathers round eye as well as the fore part 

 of the cheeks yellow ; ear-coverts and hinder cheeks ashy brown : 

 throat and under surface of body ashy whitish, tinged with yellow 

 on the chin ; the fore neck and chest pale ashy brown ; breast and 

 abdomen whiter ; sides of body and flanks pale ashy brown ; thighs 

 ashy, tinged with olive-yellow ; under tail-coverts white, with a 

 slight yellow tinge ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellow, 

 brighter along the edge of the wing ; quills below dusky, ashy along 

 the inner edge: "bill horn-colour, lower mandible whitish; feet 

 clear flesh-colour ; iris dark brown " (Jelski). Total length 5 inches, 

 culmen 0*55, wing 2-4, tail 1*85, tarsus 0"85. 



