86 ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE. 



Sylvicola aureola. Goiild. 



Plate XXVIII. 



S. supra Jlavescenti olivacea ; fronte cerviceque nitidejiavis, singulis plumis ad apicem 

 rufesceuti castaneis ; occipite griseo ; alis cauddque 7iigrescentibus, lath flavo-margi- 

 natis ; genis guttureque nitidh Jiavis ; pectore concolori sed singulis plumis in medio 

 pallida castaneo notatis ; ahdomine albescenti. 



Long. tot. 5 unc. ; rostri, -^ ; alee, 2-^ ; caudw, 2-^ ; tarsi, if. 



The nape of the neck, back and tail-coverts yellowish olive ; the wings and tail 

 blackish, broadly margined with yellow ; the front and crown yellow, with 

 the tips of the feathers reddish castaneous ; the hind head grey mixed with 

 yellow, the cheeks and the throat bright yellow ; the breast of the same 

 colour, but each feather is marked down the middle with pale reddish casta- 

 neous, the sides and middle of the abdomen whitish. 



Habitat, Galapagos Archipelago. {September). 



This bird is not uncommon on these islands. It has the habits of our Sylviae. 

 It frequents the thickets in the lower, dry and rocky parts of the island, and 

 especially a peculiar bush, with thick foliage, which grows only near the sea- 

 coast. 



Cyanotis omnicolor. Swains. 



Regiilus omnicolor, Vieill. Gal. pi. 166. 

 Sylvia rubrigastra, Vieill. 



Regulus Byronensis, Gray, Griff. An. King. pi. 

 Tachuris omnicolor, D'Orh. Sf Lafr. 

 Tachuris roi, Azara, No. 161. 



My specimens were obtained at Maldonado in June, and therefore probably 

 it is not a bird of passage. It frequented reeds on the borders of a lake, but 

 was exceedingly rare. I likewise saw one in Northern Patagonia, and in a 

 collection of birds at Santiago, in Chile, made there by an inhabitant of the 

 place. The soles of the feet of this exquisitely beautiful little bird are bright 



