aie Mr. O. Salvin^s Synopsis 



elusion that S, flaveola is only the young stage of S. ornata, 

 in which the white feathers of the side of the head have not 

 been developed. 



S. ornata is a common species in Bogota collections ; and 

 it would seem that its range is restricted to a limited district 

 in the vicinity of that city and the mountain-range extending 

 northwards which forms the eastern boundary of the valley of 

 the river Magdalena. In this direction Mr. Wyatt obtained a 

 single specimen at Portrerras in 1870. The alleged occur- 

 rence of this species in Ecuador requires confirmation. 



11. Setophaga ruficoronata. (Plate VII. fig. 1.) 

 Setophaga ruficoronata, Kaup, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 49 ; Baird, 

 Rev. Am. B. p. 255 (partim). 



Supra ardesiaca; nucha, alls et cauda nigricantibus ; vertice 

 castanea; fronte,loris,regione periophthalmico, et corpore 

 subtus aurantio-flavis ; crisso, rectrice utrinque extima 

 fere omnino, proxima in dimidio apicali, tertia medialiter 

 apicem versus albis ; rostro et pedibus nigris : long, tota 

 5-3, alse 2-3, caudse 27, tarsi 0-8. 

 Hab. Columbia int., Ecuador. 

 Mus. nostr. et Derb. 



In treating of the genus Setophaga, in his ' Review of Ame- 

 rican Birds/ Professor Baird expressed a doubt (p. 255) as to 

 the correctness of Mr. Sclater's application of the name S. 

 ruficoronata of Kaup. An examination of the type, and the 

 receipt from Mr. Buckley of two specimens from Ecuador 

 exactly agreeing with it, prove that these doubts were well 

 founded. The true S. ruficoronata, as a reference to the 

 Plate accompanying this paper (Plate VII. fig. 1) will at 

 once show, has no black margin whatever to the chestnut 

 colour of the crown ; whereas, in the bird hitherto called by 

 us S. ruficoronata, not only is the chestnut crown distinctly 

 margined with black, but that colour pervades the whole 

 sides of the head, leaving only a circlet round the eye and a 

 loral stripe yellow. 



The type of ^S'. ruficoronata, as shown by the original ticket 

 on the specimen, was obtained by Delattre at Cali,in Columbia. 

 Besides this bird, I have only seen the two specimens sent us 



