BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 571 



Paulo, 1899, 162. — Salvadori and Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xv, 



1899, 25 (Valle del Chota, centr. Ecuador; syn.). 

 ISpermophilri^ gutturallt Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 28. 

 [Phxinipara] (/MMio-afe Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 494 (Brazil). 

 Phonipara guituralis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1861, 298 (Panama R. R. ). 

 ISporophila] jrtitoraEs Lichtenstein, Nom. Mus. Berol., 1854, 45. 

 Sp-lorophila] gutturaUx Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, June, 1851, 149 (Brazil). 

 SporopMla gutturalis Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., iii, 1856. 244. — Allen, 



Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 223 (Brazil); iii, 1891, 369 (Chapada, prov. 



Mattogrosso, s. w. Brazil). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., vi, 1894, 34 



(Trinidad). — Phelps, Auk, xiv, 1897, 364 (Cumanacoa and San Antonio, 



Venezuela). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, 179 (Palomina, prov. 



Santa Marta, Colombia). 

 [Passerina] gutturalis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 98, no. 7454. 

 Loxiaignobilis Spix, Av. Bras., 1824, 46, pi. 60, fig. 3 (Pard, Brazil). 

 S.[permophUa] ignobilis Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 386. 

 Loxia plebeja Spix, Av. Bras., 1824, 46, pi. 59, fig. 3 (Brazil). 

 S.[permophila] plebeja Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 386. 

 SporopMla plebeja 'LicB.T'ETfSTEiit, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 46. 

 F.[ringilla melanocephala (not Coccothraustes melanocephala Vieillot) Maximilian, 



Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iii, pt. i, 1830, 577 (Rio Belmonte, Brazil; type lost; see 



Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 223). 

 S.\_permoph,ila'] melanocephala Gy^kx , Gen. Birds, iii, 1849, App., p. 18. 

 SpermopMla olivaceo-flava J^ afresh ave, Rev. Zool., 1843, 291 (Colombia) ; 1846, 



207 (fuller description) . — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.,1855, 160(Bogota) 

 (?) SpermopMla gutturalis ollvacea "Stolzm"[ann] Berlepsch and Taczanowski, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, 550 (Chimbo, \v. Ecuador; coll. Count von 



Berlepsch); 1884, 293 (Cayandeled, w. Ecuador). 

 (?) SpermopMla gutturalis pallida Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., xxxii, July and 



Oct., 1884, 295 (Bucaramanga, Colombia; coll. Count von Berlepsch). 



SPOROPHILA CORVINA (Sclater). 

 BLACK SEESEATEB. 



Adult male. — Uniform glossy black, with axillars, under wing- 

 coverts, basal portion of inner webs of remiges, and more or less of a 

 white spot at base of outer webs of sixth to second or first primaries, 

 white (the last marking sometimes obsolete, or mostly concealed by 

 primary coverts); bill black; legs and feet dusky brown; length (skins), 

 97.03-m.81 (106.68); wing, 52.07-55.63 (54.61); tail, 42.67-50.29 

 (45.47); exposed culmen, 8.89-9.91 (9.40); depth of bill at base, 8.13- 

 8.89 (8.38); tarsus, 14.48-16.76 (15.76); middle toe, 10.67-12.19 

 (11.43).^ 



Adult female. — Plain olive, paler below, the abdomen and anal 

 region more or less tinged with pale ochraceous or buffy; axillars and 

 under wing-coverts white, often tinged with sulphur yellow; bill, legs, 

 and feet dusky brown (in breeding plumage the general coloration 

 lighter below and decidedly grayer throughout); length (skins), 98.55- 

 110.74 (106.66); wing, 51.31-55.12 (53.09); exposed culmen, 9.14r- 



' Nineteen specimens. 



