382 Descriptions of Nine Species of Birds. 



of the front iiutl chin, though I thought it to be fully adult. It 

 Aviis left in charge of a bird-dealer in Brooklyn, L. I., from 

 Avhom I exacted the ])ronii.se, that in case of its death he would 

 take it to Mr. John Akhurst, to whom I had given directions to 

 l)reserve the skin. Unfortunately, it died during the summer, 

 but the skin Avas not saved. 



'J'herefore, I have had to rely on my notes, which I was 

 pleased to find gave quite a satisfactory account of its plumage. 



The most marked difference fi-om its allies seems to be, the 

 ashy front and chin, and these the dealer assured me did not 

 change at all in coloring while it lived. 



"Z. Foriuicivora grisei^ula. 



The upper plumage i.s of a deep, rather l)right, ierrugiuous ; the front, 

 lores and crown are brownish ; the tail-feathers are dull black, crossed with 

 waving bars of very pale dull ferruginous ; these bars are of about half 

 the width of the black interspaces, and are eleven in niunber ; the quills 

 are dark liver-brown ; their edges and the wing coverts are rufous, like the 

 back ; the inner edges of the quills are of a very pale salmon-color ; the 

 sides of the head are blackish ; the shafts of the ear-coverts are white ; the 

 chin and throat are dark gray, a little lighter in color on the former; the 

 breast, abdomen and under tail-coverts are of a light dull rufous; the bill and 

 feet black. 



Length (skin\ 5| inches; wing, 3| ; tail, 3-| ; tarsus, | ; bill, \. 

 liabitat, British (iuiana. Type in my collection. 



Rewarks. — By its general dark coloi'ation. gray throat and 

 barred tail, this bird is readily distinguished from all others of 

 the genus. 



3. Spermopliila parva. 



Female. Upper plumage of a light, warm, earthy-brown, a little deeper 

 in color on the crown, and brighter under and behind the eyes ; the throat 

 is grayish-white ; rest of the imder parts of a very light shade of brown, 

 whitish on the middle of the abdomen ; the smaller and middle wing-coverts 

 are dark brown, the latter ending with whitish ; the larger coverts are also 

 dark brown and margined with whitish : quills dark umber-brown ; the 

 outer tertials edged with light fulvous, the inner with whitish ; tail, vunber- 



