564 DR. O. FINSCH ON THE BIRDS OF TRINIDAD. [June 23, 
of the secondaries rufous brown, with some indistinct dark bars ; 
two middle tail-feathers dark brown with numerous (nineteen) black- 
ish bars, remainder of the tail-feathers brownish black, with a broad 
(5'") white cross band before the narrow dark end; bill black horn- 
colour, pale greyish at the base of the lower mandible; legs dark 
greyish brown, claws paler. 
Long. al. rectr. med. rostr. a rict. tars. dig. med. 
aus LY oo vor yi La" 8" (Trinidad.) 
3 2 3.2.— 14 12 — (ap. Cabanis.) 
Siraiizs 9 3'-38- 3 = — 133-15 8-94 (griseus, ap. Pelz.) 
Dr. Cabanis has pointed out the characters of this apparently rare 
species, which is not mentioned in the work of Dr. Léotaud, in a very 
brief manner; a minute description therefore was necessary. Un- 
fortunately I possess no specimen of H. griseus, Sw., which seems to 
be sufficiently distinct, not only in being considerably larger (as the 
measurements noticed by Von Pelzeln prove), but also in the colo- 
ration. Dr. Sclater notices, besides H. griseus, also a H. minor from 
Trinidad; but this latter “being so similar to H. griseus in every 
respect, except in size, I question whether it may not bea variety 
of age or sex of that species” (P. Z.S. 1856, p. 97). HH. minor, as 
thus described, may be very probably only a smaller-sized speci- 
meu of the true H. griseus. 
Fam. Luscrnrapa. 
MNIOTILTINE. 
36. SyivicoLa astiva (Gmel.). 
Dendreca estiva, Scl. Cat. p. 32; Taylor, 7. ¢. p. 81. 
Mniotilta petechia, Léot. p. 176. 
Six males and two females, not distinguishable from specimens 
from the United States. One old male shows very narrow reddish- 
brown stripes on the vertex. 
Long. al. caud. rostr. tars. 
gi inom 52" = 1g3-90!"" 4-4 8" (3, Trinidad.) 
2 3 18 4 8 (Q, Trinidad.) 
274 18} 4 8 (6, N. America.) 
2 5 — e. 5 9 (¢,aureola, Galapagos.) 
2 os 222 5 9 (,aureola, Galapagos.) 
2 5 22 5 9 (,aureola, Galapagos.) 
The male has the head above bright yellow. Dr, Léotaud de- 
scribes the Trinidad bird as having the head above ‘jaune orangé 
tirant sur le rouge.” Might not this be S. petechia, L., which 
Dr. Sclater (Cat. p. 32) considers to be different from S. estiva? 
But, as Dr. Léotaud states, S. @stiva arrives only as a winter visitor 
in the island of Trinidad. j 
Sylvicola aureola, Gould (Voy. Beagle, p, 86, pl. 28), from the 
