4A6 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



reached the Middle States in northward migration. There are speci- 

 men in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History 

 from Las Nubes and Onaca. 



413. Hemispingus basilicus Todd. (Plate VI.) 



Hemispingus basilicus Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXVI, 1913, 170 

 (San Lorenzo; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Carnegie Mus.). 



Nine specimens : San Lorenzo, Macotama, and Paramo de Mama- 

 rongo. 



Description. — Adult male: back, wings externally, and tail dark 

 warbler green; whole head and neck black, with broad and conspicuous 

 superciliary and vertical stripes of pale grayish white, the vertical 

 stripe strongly tinged anteriorly with citron yellow ; an isolated broad 

 white stripe or patch behind the ear-coverts, and some white mottling 

 below the eye; throat (narrowly) dull white, more or less speckled 

 with dusky; rest of under parts lemon chrome, the sides and flanks 

 darker, shaded with pyrite yellow; "bill black; feet brownish yellow 

 or yellowish flesh-color; iris brown." 



Adult female similar but rather duller. Immature male also similar, 

 but the black areas of the head and neck duller, more brownish, and 

 the superciliary and vertical stripes, and postauricular and subocular 

 spots tinged with buft'y, and less sharply defined. 



Juvenai plumage: similar in general to that of the adult, but every- 

 where darker and duller, the upper parts, etc., dark citrine; head and 

 neck brown, with the light markings warm buff ; chin and upper throat 

 dull white ; lower throat, breast, and sides shaded with citrine ; abdomen 

 amber yellow, and under tail-coverts sulphine yellow. 



Measurements. 



No. Sex. Locality. Wing. Tail. Bill. Tarsus. 



37939 1 & San Lorenzo 67 66 11.5 22 



37991 1 £ San Lorenzo (Type) 67 66 12.5 22 



37992 1 cfhi\. San Lorenzo 65 64 12.5 22 



45 2 85 1 c? Paramo de Mamarongo 69 65 12.5 23 



45286 1 cf Paramo de Mamarongo 70 67 13 22.5 



632072 £ Paramo de Mamarongo 69 69 12.5 24 



45 2 53 1 $ Macotama 66 61 12.5 24 



452761 $ Paramo de Mamarongo 63 63 12 23 



1 Collection Carnegie Museum. 



2 Collection Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



