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part ; the throat more of an orange-scarlet, the breast washed with 

 orange, and the sides not spotted with black, though there are 

 some indistinct blackish centres to the feathers of the sides of the 

 body: " bill horn}- black; feet lead-colour " (T'acraHow.^A.-t). Total 

 length 7"3 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 3-25, tail 2-05, tarsus 0-9. 



Adult female. Diifers from the female of 0. niger much in the 

 same waj' as the male does, and has the fore neck and breast 

 spotted with black centres to the feathers ; the wing-coverts are all 

 edged with orange. Total length 7*3 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 

 2-45, tail 2, tarsus 0-9. 



Hah. Guiana to the Rio Negro and Upper Amazon. 



a. <S ad. sk. (Tuiana. Sir R. Scbomburg:k [C.]. 



b. c? ad. sk. Oyapock, Cayenne (Jelski). Sclater Coll. 



c. cJ ad. sk. Ega, R. Amazon. H. W. Bates, Esq. [C.]. 



d. 5 ad. sk. Pebas {E. L. Layavrl). Tweeddale Coll. 



e. 5 ad. sk. Pebas, July '2 (j. Haux- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



tcell). 



8. Capito richardsoni. (Plate V. fig. 3.) 



Capito richardsoni, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 430, pi. 106 (1846) ; Scl. 



Cat. Amer. B. p. 329 (1862, pt.) ; Gray, List Capit. Brit. Miis. 



p. 22 (1868, pt.) ; id. Kand-l. B. ii. p. 178, no. 8498 (1870) ; 



Marshall, Monoyr. Capit. p. 17;^., pi. 69 (1871) ; Hcl. ^ Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 110 (1873, pt.). 

 Capito sulphm-eus, Eytou, Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 130. 

 Eubucco richardsoni, Bp. Co«s/j. i. p. 142 (1850); id. Co7isp. Vol. 



Zygod. p. 13 (1854). 



Adult male. General colour grass-green, with edgings of golden 

 olive to the dorsal feathei-s in some speciinens ; wiug-coverts like 

 the back; bastard- wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, 

 externally olive-green, the greater coverts also olive : tail-feathers 

 dull olive-green ; crown of head very dark crimson, as well as the 

 sides of the face and ear-coverts ; lores blackish ; round the hind 

 neck a broad collar of blue-grey, separated by a blackish shade 

 from the crimson of the head ; cheeks and throat bright sulphur- 

 yellow, with a large chin-spot of dark crimson ; fore neck washed 

 with vermilion, which deepens into a large patch of scarlet- 

 vermilion on the breast ; remainder of under surface of body pale 

 sulphur-yellow ; the lower flanks, vent, and, under tail-coverts 

 white slightly tinted with yellow ; the sides of the body, flanks, 

 and under tail-coverts very broadly streaked with dark green ; 

 under wing-coverts yellowish white, with a dusky patch near the 

 edge of the wing ; quills dusky below, yellowish buff" along the 

 inner webs. Total length 5'5 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2'7, tail 

 1-8, tarsus 0'75. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in being olive-green with 

 a slight golden wash ; forehead hoary grey, as well as a narrow 

 eyebrow, the latter terminating in a streak of golden yellow down . 



