Mr. P. L. Sclater on the Genus Spermophila. 3 



1. Spermophila minuta. 

 Loxia minuta, Liun. S. N. i. 307. 

 Pyrrhula nmiuta, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 10.26. 

 Sporophila minuta, Cab. Mus. Hein. p. 150. 

 Spermophila minuta, Gray, Gen. p. 386; Bp. Consp. p. 495 ; 

 Sclater, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 160, et Cat. A. B. p. 104; Scl. et 

 Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 352 ; Lawr. Ann. L. N. Y. vii. p. 333. 

 Bouvreuil a ventre roux de Cayenne, BufF. PI. Enl. 319. fig. 2. 

 Loxia fusciventer, Bodd. 



Spermophila fu^civentris, Gray, Gen. p. 386 ; Jard. Ann. X. H. 

 XX. p. 333 (1847). 



Fuscescenti-cinerea : alis caudaque nigricantibus, speculo alari 

 albo : uropygio et corpore subtus testaceo-rubris : long 

 tota 3-7 poll.; ala^2*l ; caudse 1'6. Fem. olivaceo-fusca : 

 alis caudaque obscurioribus : subtus pallide ochracea, ventre 

 albescente. 



Hab. Cayenne {Mv^. P.L.S.) ; Venezuela {Levraud); Trinidad 

 {Mus. Smiths.); Tobago {Kirk); Bogota {Mus. P.L.S.) ; Panama 

 {Mc Leannan) . 



Of this species I have examples from Cayenne, Tobago, and 

 New Gi-anada (Bogota). Mr. Lawrence's collection contains 

 specimens of both sexes from Panama, and the Smithsonian 

 series one, " received from Trinidad," where, however, as it is 

 found in Tobago, it would be nearly sure to occur. In the Paris 

 Museum are skins of this Spermophila transmitted from Caracas 

 by M. Levraud. 



I have never seen examples of this bird from any part of the 

 Amazonian region or from Brazil; nor did Natterer obtain 

 it ; so that it probably does not occur in these countries. In 

 Southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay its place is taken by 

 the next species, S. hypoxantha. To the latter species also (fol- 

 lowing V. Pelzeln) I am inclined to refer D^Orbigny's S. minuta 

 from Bolivia, though the only specimens of D'Orbigny's in the 

 Paris Museum which I could find were not quite adult, and 

 seemed to me rather dubious. 



2. Spermophila hypoxantha. 



Pico grueso pardo y canela, xVzar. Apunt. i. p. 444. 



Pyrrhula minuta, Lafr. et D'Orb. Syn. Av. p. 87. 



