314 Mr. O. Salvin's Synopsis 



I am not sure that some of the distinctive characters of 

 S. castaneocapilla may not be traced to the immaturity of 

 the specimen ; but this can only be proved by the acquisition 

 of more specimens. 



S. castaneocapilla is one of the interesting species which^ 

 with many others^ should be looked for carefully by any 

 traveller Avho^ treading in Schomburgk's steps, may visit the 

 Roraima Mountains and the rest of the little-explored interior 

 of British Guiana. 



9. Setophaga chrysops_, sp. n. (Plate VII. fig. 2.) 



Setophaga jiaveola, Kaup, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 50 {iiec Lafr.). 

 Supra schistacea; capite postico, alis et cauda nigricantibus ; 

 capite antico et corpore subtus aureo-flavis ; rectricibus 

 duabus utrinque extimis fere omnino albis, tertia utrinque 

 medialiter apicem versus alba ; rostro et pedibus nigris : 

 long, tota 5-5, alse 2'7, caudse 2*7, tarsi 0"75. 



Hah. Columbia. 



Mus. nostr., P. L. S., et Derb. 



The specimen from which the above description and the 

 accompanying figure were taken was obtained by Mr. T. K. 

 Salmon at Santa Elena, in the Columbian state of Antioquia, 

 two other similar examples being in Mr. Sclater^s collection. 

 At one time we thought that they might be 8. flaveola in 

 adult dress ; but the restriction of the yellow of the occiput 

 to the anterior portion of the head, and other points, prove 

 that this view cannot be maintained. Moreover, a comparison 

 of a sketch of the head of S. flaveola, taken from the type, 

 both with the bird now described and with specimens of S. 

 ornata, leads me to the conclusion that Lafresnaye^s type of 

 8. flaveola is but an immature specimen of the latter bird. 

 The specimen in the Derby Museum, called 8. flaveola by 

 Kaup, agrees very closely with Mr. Salmon^s examples. The 

 anterior ear-coverts, however, are darker — a character which, 

 I believe, indicates that this specimen is not so old as the 

 Santa-Elena bird. The Derby-Museum specimen was ob- 

 tained by the French collector Delattre on the Paramo of 

 Popayan, and is marked " male.'" The range of 8. chrysops 

 would therefore appear to be restricted to the mountains 

 forming the eastern boundary of the valley of the river Cauca. 



