79. SALTATEICTTLA. 737 



buff; sides of body and flanks ashy grey, slightly washed with 

 brown ; uuder wing-coverts and axillaries white, with a slight tinge 

 of tawny ; quills below dusky, ashy white along the edge of the 

 inner web : " bill blackish ; feet horn-colour ; iris reddish brown" 

 (Jelslci). Total length 7' 8 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-4, tail 3-35, 

 tarsus 1-15. 

 Hub. Peru. 



a. $ ad. sk. Western Cordillera of Peru ( W. Sclater Coll. ■ (Type 

 Nation). of species.) 



79. SALTATRICULA. 



Type. 

 Saltatricula, Burm. Reis. La Plata-St. ii. p. 481 (1861). S. multicolor. 



Head of Saltatricula multicolor. 

 Range. Western Argentine Republic. 



1. Saltatricula multicolor. 



Saltator multicolor, Burm. J.f. O. 1860, p. 254; Cab. J.f. 0. 1878, 

 p. 195; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 75, no. 7100 (1870). 



Saltatricula multicolor, Burm. Beis. La Plata-St. ii. p. 481 (1861) ; 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1880, p. 355 ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 600. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, the lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts ashy grey ; lesser wing-coverts ashy grey ; 

 median coverts dusky brown, margined with ashy grey ; greater 

 coverts dusky brown, externally brown like the back ; bastard-wing 

 and primary-coverts dark brown, edged with ashy brown ; quills 

 dark brown, the primaries edged with ashy, the secondaries with 

 brown, more rufescent along the outer web ; centre tail-feathers 

 ashy brown, the remainder black, broadly tipped with white, in- 

 creasing towards tho outer feather, which is also white along the 

 outer web ; crown of head like the back ; a narrow black line 

 across the base of the forehead, followed by a shade of grey ; lores 

 black as well as the feathers below the eye ; eyelid white ; ear- 

 coverts ashy grey, with a broad streak of white above them ; feathers 

 below the eye and cheeks black, extending on to the fore part of the 

 ear-coverts and down the sides of the throat ; entire throat white ; 

 sides of neck light ashy grey, extending downwards on to the fore 

 neck ; breast, sides of body, and flanks light tawny rufous : abdomen 

 and lower breast white ; thighs ashy, with white edges ; under tail- 

 coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy grey, the 

 lower series whiter; the outer coverts dusky brown, forming a 



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