99. GUBERNATRIX. 815 



Young. Entirely brown above, including the sides of the face ; 

 sides of neck and under surface of body white, the cheeks and 

 throat yellowish buff; quills and tail dark brown, the primaries 

 edged with ashy. 



Hab. Venezuela, Trinidad, and Guiana. 



a. Ad. sk. Trinidad. Purchased. 



b. Juv. sk. Cayenne. Sclater Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Venezuela. Sclater Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. [Venezuela.] Gould Coll. 



99. GUBERNATRIX. 



Type. 



Gubernatrix, Less. Compl. Buff. viii. p. 295 (1837) G. cristata. 



Lophocoryphus, Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 47 G. cristata. 



Head of Gubernatrix cristata. 

 Range. Argentine Republic to Northern Patagonia. 



1. Gubernatrix cristata. 



Crestudo aniarillo, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 464 (1802). 



Coccothraustes cristata, Vieill. N Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 531 



(1817). 

 Emberiza gubernatrix, Temm, PL Col iii. pis. 63, 64 (1823). 

 Emberiza cristata, Swains. Zool. Lllustr. 1st ser. iii. pi. 148 (1823). 

 Emberiza cristatella, Bonn, et Vieill. Ene. Meth. ii. p. 928 (1823) ; 



Vieill. Gal. Ois. i. p. 84 ; pi. 67 (1825). 

 Lophocoryphus gubernatrix, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 47 (1840) ; Lichl. 



Nomencl. Av. p. 42 (1854). 

 Gubernatrix cristatella, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 378 (1844) ; Hartl. Ihd. 



Azara, p. 9 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 470 (1850) ; Burm. Tk. 



Bras. iii. p. 257 (1856) ; id. Reis. La-Plata St. ii. p. 482 (1861) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 115, no. 7714 (1870) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. 



p. 231 (1871) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 548 ; id. $ Salv. Nomencl. 



Av. Neotr. p. 31 (1873) : White, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 38. 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish green, streaked with 

 black on the mantle and back : the lower back and rump uniform ; 

 scapulars like the back ; lesser wing-coverts yellowish green, those 

 round the top of the wing uniform bright golden yellow ; median 

 coverts black, externally yellowish green and tipped with yellow, 



