454 RIBDS or BRITISH GUIANA. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Fore part of crown bright orange-red S. flaveola, p. 454. 



B. Fore part of crown not orange-red. 



V . Top of head and back broadly streaked 



with blackish ; lores and a line above the 



eye yellow ; under surface bright yellow ; 



bill shorter and stouter & minor, p. 455. 



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

 ceptibly streaked, and only slightly on 



the back ; under surface dull yellow ; 



lores uniform with the crown ; billlonger 



and more slender S. roraimee, p. 457. 



636. Sicalls flaveola. 



Sa¥fbon Finch. 



Frinifilla flaveola Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 321, 1766 (Surinam). 

 Si/calis hrasiliensis Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. 679, 1848. 

 Sycalis fla/eeola 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 bright 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 blackish 

 brown with sulphur-yellow margins ; tail brown strongly 

 tinged with yellow ; sides of face and throat crocus-yellow ; 

 remainder of the under surface, including the under wing- 

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

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

 similar to the upper surface but paler. 



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 abdomen grey with dark shaft-streaks on the crown of the 

 head ; back and wings greyish bufE 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 the latter ; lower 

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

 greenish yellow, remainder of the tail-feathers dark brown ; fore- 

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

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

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

 brown. Wing 68 mm. 



