454 Rinns of British guiaxa. 



Key to tJie Sjiecies. 



A. Fore part of cro-n-n bright orange-red S. JJaveola, p. 454. 



B. Fore part of crown not orange-red. 



b' . Toj) of head and back broadly streaked 



with blackish ; lores and a line above the 



eye yellow ; under surface bright yellow ; 



bill shorter and stouter ;S'. m inor, p. 4oo. 



c . Top of head very dull \'ellowish, not per- 

 ceptibly streaked, and only slightly on 



the back ; under surface dull ^'ellow ; 



lores uniform with the crown ; bill longer 



and more slender *S'. roraimcp, p. 457. 



G3G. Sicalis flaveola. 

 Saffron Finx'h. 



FriiiqlUn f areola Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 821, 17G0 (Surinam). 

 Si/calis brasiliensis Cab. in Schomb. lieis. Guian. iii. p. 679, 1848. 

 Sycalis flaveola Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 217; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xii. p. 377, 1888 ; Quelch, Timehri (2) v. p. 82, 1891 (Georgetown). 

 Sicalis flaveola Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 374, no. 3842, 1912. 



Adult male. Fore part of bead brioht orange ; hind-neck, back, 

 wings, and tail greenish yellow with dark shaft-lines to the 

 feathers on the upper back ; inner webs of flight-quills blackisli 

 brown with sulphur-yellow margins ; tail brown strongly 

 tinged with yellow ; sides of face and throat crocu.s-yellow ; 

 remainder of the under surface, including the under wing- 

 coverts and inner margins of the quills below, bright yellow; 

 renuiinder of the quill-lining dark brown ; lower aspect of tail 

 similar to the upper surface but })aler. 



Total length 140 mm., exposed culmen 10, wing 71, tail 54, 

 tarsus 21. 



Adult female. Crown of head, sides of face, throat, and middle 

 of al)domen grey with daik shaft-streaks o/i the crown of the 

 head; hack and wings greyish buff with dark shaft-lines to some 

 of the feathers ; inner webs of bastard-wing and flight-quills dark 

 brown with whitish or yellowish margins to tiie latter ; lower 

 back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and outer margins of tail-feathers 

 greenish yellow, remainder of the t:iil-feathers dark brown ; fore- 

 neck greenish yellow ; thighs, under tail-coverts, under wing- 

 coverts, and iinier margins of quills below bright yellow, re- 

 mainder of quill-lining dark brown ; lower aspect of tail yellowish 

 brown. Wing: G8 mm. 



