BIRDS FROM BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN VENEZUELA—FRIEDMANN 565 
SPOROPHILA INTERMEDIA Oabanis: Gray Seed-eater 
Sporophila intermedia CaBANIS, Museum Heineanum, vol. 1, 1851, p. 149 
(Venezuela). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
2 ad. o', Venezuela, Soledad, December 10, 1929, June 11, 1931. 
Both specimens are in rather abraded plumage; neither has any 
white on the throat; one is much darker than the other on the top of 
the head and is also somewhat darker on the back. 
SPOROPHILA NIGRICOLLIS NIGRICOLLIS (Vieillot): Yellow-bellied Seed-eater 
Pyrrhula nigricollis VierttoT, Tabl. Enc. Méth., Orn., livr. 93, 1823, p. 1027 
(“Brésil’’). 
SPECIMEN COLLECTED 
lad. 9, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, March 22, 1931, 
The single example collected is in worn plumage. 
SPOROPHILA LINEOLA (Linnaeus): Lined Seed-eater 
Loria lineola Linnarus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 174 (‘‘Asia”’ 
errore= Surinam). 
SPECIMBNS COLLECTED 
4 ad. of, 1 ad. 9, Brazil, Santa Isabel, Rio Negro, Amazonas, October 10-13, 
1930. 
The width of the white coronal mark is variable in the four males 
collected. 
SPOROPHILA BOUVRONIDES (Lesson): Lesson’s Seed-eater 
Pyrrhula bouvronides Lesson, Traité d’ornithologie, livr. 6, 1831, p. 450 (Srinidad). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
1 im. o, Brazil, SAo Gabriel, Rio Negro, Amazonas, January 6, 1931. 
3 ad. o', lad. 9, Venezuela, Ciudad Bolivar, June 8, 9, 1931. 
1 ad. o', Venezuela, Soledad, June 12, 1931. 
None of the four adult males have any white specks on the middle 
of the forehead, but have the entire upper surface dark greenish black. 
Hellmayr (Catalogue of the birds of the Americas, pt. 11, 1938, 
p. 211) states that the female of this species is indistinguishable from 
that of S. lineola. While the material examined by me is slight, it 
appears that the female bouvronides is very slightly paler generally 
than that of lineola, but more extensive material may upset this 
difference. 
The young male from Sao Gabriel is in an early stage of the post- 
juvenal molt, the rectrices, the innermost secondaries, and a few 
scattering feathers of the back and throat are of the dark adult plum- 
age, otherwise the feathering is like that of the adult female but less 
ochraceous below and slightly duskier above. 
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