84. EMBERIZOIDES. 769 



black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries whitish, with yellow 

 margins ; edge of wing bright yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy 

 along the inner edge. Total length 7*5 inches, culmen 0"65, wing 

 2-8, tail 4-8, tarsus 1 -0. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but smaller and not quite so 

 brown underneath. Total length 6-7 inches, culmen OG, wing 2-65, 

 tail 3-2, tarsus 095. 



Young female. More reddish brown than the adults and without the 

 olive or ashy tinge ; eyebrow brown ; under surface olive-yellowish, 

 browner on the fore neck, chest, and sides of body. 



Young male. Recognizable by its superior size. Differs from the 

 adults only in its yellow under surface with dusky spots on the lower 

 throat ; the flanks also streaked with blackish. 



Hab. Colombia, Venezuela, and Guiana. 



a. Ad. sk. Bogota (G. Crowther). Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



c. (S ad. sk. Medellin. T. K. Salmon, Esq. 



[C.]. 



d. e. (5 5 ad. sk. Medellin (T. K. Salmon). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /. 3 ad. sk. San Cristobal, Venezuela (..4. Sclater Coll. 



Goering). 

 g. Ad. sk. Trinidad. Sclater Coll. 



h, i. Ad. sk. Cayenne. Sclater Coll. 



k, I. <£ 2 ad. sk. Merume Mountains, British Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Guiana, June 1881 (H. 



Whitely). 

 m. 3 juv.sk. Merume Mountains, July 1881 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. W.). 

 n. $ juv. sk. Roraima, Nov. 10, 1881 (H. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



TV.), 

 o. c? ad. ; p. S Roraima, Dec. 1881 (H. W.). Salvin-Godman Coll, 



juv. sk. 



Subsp. a. Emberizoides herbicola. 



Cola aguda encuentro amarillo, Azara, Apnnt. ii. p. 257 (1802). 

 Sylvia herbicola, Vieill. N. Diet. oVHist. Nat. xi. p. 192 (1817). 

 Emberizoides marginalis, Temm. PI. Col. iii. pi. 114. fig. 2 (1824). 

 Sphenura fringillaris, Licht. Vers. Doubl. p. 42 (1823). 

 Embernagra macrura (nee Gni.), If Orb. Vog. Amir. MSrid., Ois. 



p. 285 (1835-44). 

 Tardivola sphenura (nee V.), Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 281 (1837). 

 Emberizoides macrurus (nee G?n.), Grag, Gen. B. ii. p. 360 (1844) ; 



Hartl, hid. Azara, p. 25 (1847); Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 225 



(1856) ; id. Peis. La Plata-St. ii. p. 485 (1861). 

 ? Emberizoides megarhyncha, Bp. Consp. i. p. 482 (1850) ; Grag, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 90, no. 7328 (1870). 

 Tardivola marginalis, Cab. Mm. Hein. Th. i. p. 135 (1850). 

 Emberizoides sphenurus (nee V.), Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 118 (1862); 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 90, no. 7327 (1870) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. 



p. 230 (1871) ; 861. fy Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 33 (1873) ; iid. 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 607 ; Salv. Cat. Striate. Coll. p. 234 (1882). 



Adult male. Similar to E. macrurus, and differing only in its 

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