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(continuous with it) yellow. Yellow [Sclater.! 
frontlet very narrow : 2 . ?“ruficoronata,” 
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 ?) 5 . melanocephala, 
Whole top of head cinnamon, 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 . : . : : . brunneiceps, 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. 
ce. Extreme tips only of lateral tail feathers white. Sexes similar. 
Beneath yellowish; crissum whitish. A median yellow 
vertex stripe. Above, including wings and tail, plum- 
beous. Luthlypis. 
A white spot before the eye. Breast tinged with 
fulvous . : : - : ¢ - lachrymosa, Bon. 
! T 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, Iam 
not aware of any published name that properly belongs to the Ecuador bird. 
? This section includes S. ornata, Boiss., flaveola, Lafr., and leucomphomma, 
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 differs 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, ruficoronata, of Kaup, than the one referred to above. 
