1919- Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 471 



b^ — Lower belly not barred. 



I — Lower belly and thighs dull buffy yellow; without bars; 



upper tail coverts barred V. dignus. 



(Colombia and eastern Ecuador.) 

 2 — Upper tail coverts nearty uniform; spots on wing coverts yel- 

 lowish oHve, usually bordered apically with red . V. valdizani. 

 (Central Peru.) 

 c' — Entire belly barred. 



c"* — Chest barred and belly barred. 



c^ — Back with transverse spots or irregular bars of yellow. 

 I — Back with transverse yellow markings; wing 83 to 92 



V. tcenionotus icBnionotus. 



(Eastern Brazil; Minas Geraes, Bahia, etc.) 

 2 — Similar, but upper parts more golden; under parts 

 paler; outer tail feathers much more strongly banded 



V. IcBnionotus ceara. 



(Prov. of Ceard, northeastern Brazil.) 

 3 — Upper parts with irregular yeUow spots; chin and 

 throat whitish with dusky spots; spots on wing 



coverts yellowish white; wing 92 to 98 mm 



V. frontalis. 



(Northern Argentina, Tucuman.) 

 d* — Back uniform or with narrow yellow shaft stripes. 



d® — Back with hair-like yellow shaft stripes or elongated 

 narrow spots ; pale barring on underparts well marked. 

 I — Bars on chest broken into wide arrow-shaped 



spots; wing about 85 V. agilis. 



(Eastern Peru, eastern Ecuador, eastern 

 Colombia and northwestern Brazil.) 



2 — Bars on chest complete; wing about 81 



V. passerinus. 



(Guiana, eastern Venezuela, northern and 



northeastern Brazil.) 



e® — Back (always?) uniform; pale barring on underparts 



somewhat obscure and very narrow. 



I — Red on head confined to occiput and nape (male) ; 



no red on head or nape (female); wing about 91 



V. olivinus. 



(Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina.) 

 d* — Chest spotted or streaked (not barred) ; belly barred. 



e^ — Back with narrow yellow shaft streaks (sometimes ob- 

 scure.) 



l-MZ;hest with longitudinal spots of whitish; dark mark- 

 ings on underparts more olive; wing about 81 



V. fidelis. 



(Colombia.) 

 2 — Chest with wide, somewhat arrow shaped spots or 

 broken bars; general color of underparts more dusky; 



wing about 85 V. agilis. 



(Eastern Peru, eastern Ecuador, eastern Colombia 

 and northwestern Brazil.) 



