12 Mr. P. L. Sclater on the Geims Spermophila. 



Obs. Proxima Sp. lineatce, sed torque jugulari perfecto, 

 alarum tectricibus omnino nigris, et crassitie minore distin- 

 guenda. 



I am a little doubtful about this species, which, upon com- 

 parison of a larger series, may be found to be scarcely separable 

 from the preceding. Besides Eraser's skins, upon which this 

 Spermophila was originally established, I have before me a skin 

 from Guayaquil, belonging to the Smithsonian Institution, which 

 agrees exactly with the types. 



14. Spermophila CiERULEscENs. 



Pyrrhula carulescens, Vieill. E. M. p. 1023. 



Spermophila carulescens, Gray, Gen. p. 386 ; Bp. Consp. 

 p. 498; Sclater, Cat. A. B. p. 104. 



Pyrrhula nigricollis, Vieill. E. M. p. 1027. 



Sperm, nigricollis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 498; Scl. Cat. A. B. 

 p. 104. 



Pico grueso gargantilla, Az. Apunt. i. p. 452, no. 125. 



Fringilla leucopogon, Max. Beitr. iii. p. 572. 



Fringilla ornata, Licht. p. 26. 



Pyrrhula ornata, Lafr. et D'Orb. Syn. Av. p. 86. 



Spermophila ornata, Hartl. Ind. Az. p. 9 ; Bp. Consp. i. 

 p. 497; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 632; Pelz. Orn. Bras, 

 p. 224. 



Sporophila ornata, Cab. Mus. Hein. p. 149; Burm. Syst. 

 Ueb. iii. p. 243. 



Spermophila nigrigularis, Gould, Zool. Voy. Beagle, iii. p. 88. 



Supra ciuerca, pileo prgecipue ad frontem nigricante : subtus 

 alba, gula media utrinque albo marginata et torque jugu- 

 lari nigris : rostro pallide flavo ; long, tota, 4'5, alse 2*3, 

 caudse 2. Fern. Olivacea, alis caudaque obscuris, olivaceo 

 limbatis : subtus valde ddutior, ochraceo pei-fusa, gula et 

 ventre medio albicantibus. 



Hab. Brazil, Matto-dentro, San Paulo and Mattogrosso 

 [Natt.), environs of Rio, very common {Burm.), Minas Geraes 

 {Burm.), Paraguay {Azara) ; Bolivia {D'Orb.); Buenos Ayres 

 {Hudson) . 



The two skins referred in my catalogue to S. carulescens 



