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Northern South America, from the lower Amazon Valley (Para, 

 Santarem, Diamantina, etc.) and central Ecuador (La Concepcion) north 

 to Isthmus of Panama (Lion Hill Station, Panama Railroad, Colon, 

 etc.), Trinidad, and Tobago. 



[Loxia] minuta Linnjeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 176 (Surinam) ; ed. 12, i, 1766, 

 307.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 865.— Latham, Index Om., i, 1790, 396. 



Pyrrhula minula Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., i\', 1816, 299; Enc. IKth., 

 iii, 1823, 1026. 



S. [permophila] minuta Gkay, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 386. 



[Spermophila] minutn Bonapaete, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 495 (Cayenne; Brazil).— 

 ScLATEK and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 28. 



Sper.mophila minula Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 160 (Bogota, Ciolom- 

 bia) ; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862,104 (Tobago; Bogota) ; Ibis, 1871, 3(monogr.).— 

 LAWKENCE, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vi, 1861, .333 (Panama R. R. ). — Sclatee and 

 Salvin, Proe. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 352 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R.); 1868, 

 167 (Carip^, Venezuela); 1879, 506 (Retiro and Medellin, Colombia).— 

 Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 83 (Trinidad).— Wyatt, Ibis, 1873, 380 (Pard, Lower 

 Amazon).— Salvi.\, Cat. Striekland Coll., 1882, 220 (Bogota; Trinidad); 

 Ibis, 1885, 214 (Roraima, British Guiana, alt. 3,500 ft.). — Beelbpsoh, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1884, 294 (Oeana and Paturia, Colombia). — Salvuv and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1884, 351.— Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., xii, 

 1888, 109, 820 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R.; Medellin and Bogota, Colombia; 

 Georgetovv'n and Roraima, British Guiana; Cayenne; Tobago; Para). — Sal- 

 VADOEi and Festa, Boll. llus. Zool., etc., Torino, 1899, 23 (La Ooneepcion, 

 centr. Ecuador) . 



[Spermophila'] minuta. Sclatee and Salvin', Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 28. 



,Sp.[orophila'\ minuta Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, June, 1851, 150 (Cayenne). 



[Sporophilal minuta Lichtenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol, 1854, 45. 



Sporophila minuta Cabanis, in Sehomburgk's Reise Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 679.— 

 Chapman, Auk, vii, July, 1890, 268 (Santarem, Lower Amazon; crit.) ; Bull. 

 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., vi, 1894, 34 (Trinidad).— Phelps, Auk, xiv, 1897, 364 

 (Cumanaeoa and San Antonio, Venezuela). — Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sei. 

 Phila., 1899, 307 (Honda, eentr. Colombia). 



[Gyrinorhynchua] minutus Geay, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 105, no. 7567. 



[£o2?m] /usOTOiter Boddaeet, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 20 (Cayenne; based on £om- 

 vreuil d, ventre roux, de Cayenne, Buffon, PI. Enl., v, pi. 319, fig. 2). 



S.\_permophila'\ fusciventrig Geay, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 386. 



Spermophila fuaciventris Z ARniiiE., Ann. Nat. Hist., xx, 1847, 333 (Tobago). 



SPOROPHILA MINUTA PARVA (Lawrence). 

 RICHARDSON'S SEEDEATER, 



Similar to ,6'. m. mlnata'but adult male with the gray parts of the 

 plumage purer gray (ash gray instead of brownish gray or grayish 

 brown); adult female slightly less fulvescent or butfy than that of 

 S. 111. minuta. 



Adult wia/e.— Length (skins), S3. 82-95. 76 (90.68): wing, 48.26-56.42 

 (50.04); tail, 38.3.5-41.66 (39.62); exposed culmen, 8.38-8.89 (8.64); 



