764 FRINGILLn).®. 



d. 5 ad. sk. Santa Marta, Feb. 19, 1879 (F. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Simons). 



e. Ad. sk. Santa Marta. Sclater Coll. 



/. 5 «id. sk. Carupano, Venezuela, Feb. 18, 1867 Salvin-Godtuan Coll. 



(A. Goering). 

 g. $ ad. sk. Tacliira, Venezuela (A. Goering). Salvin-Godinan Coll. 



Subsp. /3. Embernagra chrysoma. 



Embernagra chrysoma, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 275 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. 



p. 117, pi. 11 (1862) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 91, no. 7336 (1870) ; 



Scl. 8f Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 32 (1873). 

 Embernagra striaticeps, Bed. $ Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 551, 1885, 



p. 85. 



Adult male (type of species). Very similar to E. striaticeps, but 

 altogether paler, so that the bead and eyebrow are lighter and more 

 pearly grey ; the lower flanks more olive and the thighs distinctly 

 pearly grey. Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3*1, 

 tail 2*8, tarsus l'l. 



Young. More olive-yellow than the adult, and lacking the grey 

 and black markings on the crown ; the centre of the crown olive- 

 yellowish, with broad lateral stripes of rufous-brown ; eyebrow and 

 sides of face olive-yellow, brighter above the lores ; under surface of 

 body olive-yellow, browner on the flanks, tho chest streaked with 

 dusky brown. 



Hab. Ecuador. 



a. Ad. sk. Quito, Ecuador. J. Gould, Esq. 



b. Ad. sk. Balzar Mountains, Ecuador (J. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



lllingworth). 

 c,d. cJad.sk. Babahoyo, Ecuador (L. Fraser). Sclater Coll. (Types 



of species.) 

 e. c? juv. sk. Esmeraldas, Dec. 1859 {L. Fraser). Sclater Coll. 



Subsp. y. Embernagra chloronota. 



Embernagra chloronota, Salvin, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 202 ; id. Ibis, 1861, 

 p. 353 ; Sol. Cat. Amer. B. p. 117 (1862) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 

 p. 91, no. 7337 (1870) ; Scl. # Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 33 

 (1873) ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 444 (pt.) ; Salvin $ Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 413 (1886). 



Adult (type of species). Very similar to E. striaticeps, but smaller 

 and altogether greener, the stripes on the head black slightly washed 

 with chestnut ; the wing-coverts and outer aspect of quills not 

 nearly so yellow ; sides of body and flanks also more distinctly olive- 

 green. Total length 5*3 inches, culmen 0"6, wing 2'5, tail 2 - 05, 

 tarsus 0-9. 



The specimen from Chisec has the head-stripes quite dark chestnut. 

 It may be an adult female. 



Hab. From Yucatan to British Honduras and Guatemala. 



