Jo FRINGILLID^I. 



90. SPODIORNIS. „ 



Type. 



Spodiornis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 323 S. jardinii. 



Range. Ecuador to Peru. 



1. Spodiornis jardinii. 



Spodiornis jardinii, Scl. P. Z. S. 1806, p. 323; id. Sf Salv. Nomencl. 



Av. Neotr. p. 31 (1873) ; Bed. Sf Tacz. P. Z. 8. 1885, p. 84. 

 Conirostrum jardinii, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 120, no. 1495 (1869). 



Adult male (type of species). Uniform slaty grey above ; lesser 

 wing-coverts like the back : remainder of wing-coverts and quills 

 and tail-feathers blackish, edged with slaty grey, more hoary on the 

 primaries ; sides of face and under surface of body uniform slaty 

 grey, rather paler than the back, the under tail-coverts edged with 

 white ; under wing- coverts and axillaries slaty grey. Total length 

 4-7 inches, culnien 0-45, wing 2-85, tail 1-8, tarsus - 7. 



Adult femnle. Different from the male. Uniform olive-brown 

 above ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median coverts more slaty 

 grey ; greater coverts and quills dark brown, externally more 

 reddish brown, especially on the secondaries ; bastard-wing and 

 primary-coverts uniform dark brown ; primaries and tail-feathers 

 dark brown, with olive-brown margins ; sides of face rather more 

 ashy olive -brown ; under surface of body dingy yellowish olive, more 

 ashy on the throat ; centre of breast and abdomen ashy grey ; sides 

 of body, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts olive-browu, the latter 

 with yellowish-white margins ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 like the breast. Total length 4 - 8 inches, culmen - 45, wing 2'7, tail 

 1*7, tarsus 0-75. 



A younger bird in the Salvin-Godman Collection has the throat 

 and fore neck spotted and streaked with dusky. 



Hah. Ecuador and Colombia. 



a. J ad. sk. Ecuador (Jameson). Sclater Coll. (Type 



of species.) 



b. J ad. sk. Nanegal, Ecuador (L. Fraser). Sclater Coll. 



c. j jun. sk. Quito, Ecuador. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. <$ ad. sk. Bogota, U.S. Colombia. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Spodiornis jelskii, 



Cyanospiza sp. (?), Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 250. 

 Spodiornis jelskii, Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 42 (1886). 



Female. Above dusky brown with an olivaceous shade ; below 

 rufescent olive, the breast streaked with dusky ; under tail-coverts 

 ochraceous with a brownish disk ; wings and tail brownish black ; 

 greater wing-coverts and quills margined with rufous-brown. (Tacza- 

 nowski.) 



Hab. Ropaybamba, Peru (Jelski). 



