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(continuous with it) yellow. Yellow [Sclater.' 



frontlet very narrow • . • • ? " ritjicoronata," 

 Top of head black, without vertex spot. Other- 

 wise like last, but the blackish of cheeks . 

 not running below the eye into the dusky 

 lores. (Black confined to vertex, and not [Tschudi. 



reaching occiput as in last ?) . . melanocephala, 



Whole top of head cinnanion, without en- 

 circling black, except a narrow front. 

 Circum-ocular region and line to bill, 

 extending very narrowly along the base 

 of the forehead, white. No yellow at 

 base of bill. Rest of side of head, with 

 line over eye, dark ashy. Middle of back 

 olivaceous ...... hrunneiceps, Lafr. 



Similar to the last, but without dusky loral spot, and 

 with a dusky pectoral band. 



Entire cheeks yellow ..... torquata, Baird. 



Anterior portion of entire head yellow, bordered be- 

 hind, above, and on sides by black ; the cheeks, 

 forehead, and chin entirely yellow, or with more 

 or less white^ ....... ornata, Boiss. 



0. Extreme tips only of lateral tail feathers ivhite. Sexes similar. 

 Beneath yellowish ; crissum whitish. A median yellow 

 vertex stripe. Above, including wings and tail, plum- 

 beous. Euthlypis. 



A white spot before the eye. Breast tinged with 



fulvous ....... lachrymosa, Bon. 



• I have followed some authors, and I think Dr. Sclater, in referring this 

 species to the S. ruficoronata of Kaup ; but the description of this author is 

 very unsatisfactory, and I doubt very much the correctness of the identifica- 

 tion, as the Phila. Academy specimen, like ornata with chestnut vertex-patch, 

 answers much better to his diagnosis. Should this suggestion be correct, I am 

 not aware of any published name that properly belongs to the Ecuador bird. 



^ This section includes S. ornata, Bo\ss.,flaveola, Lafr., and leucorjiplwmma, 

 Kaup, the differences of which are not well established, and it is quite possible 

 that all these names refer to one species. In the collection of the Philadelphia 

 Academy is a specimen (without locality) which dilfers from the common 

 form of S. ornata in having a decided chestnut brown patch on the vertex, 

 the anterior feathers in which are tipped slightly with black. The forehead 

 (broadly), the whole side of the head to just behind the eye, and the entire 

 under parts are rich yellowish-orange. In some respects this bird agrees 

 better with S. rvjicoronata, of Kaup, than the one referred to above. 



