ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
TODIROSTRUM CHRYSOCROTAPHUM, Srrickianp. 
(Upper Figure.) 
A typicaL Todirostrum with a large broad beak. 
Crown and hind head glossy black ; lores pure white, over the 
eye a streak ‘of bright yellow expanding on the temples ; a. black 
streak from the gape extending over the ears; back yellow-olive; 
lesser wing-covers glossy black ; middle and greater coyers, and all 
the remiges and rectrices, black, margined externally with yellow; 
chin whitish ; lower parts and under wing-covers, pure yellow ; 
beak and legs fuscous. 
Total length, 3.6; beak to front, 5; to gape, é; height, i}; 
‘breadth, 234; wing, i.7; medial rectrices, i.1; external, 9; tar- 
sus, 6; middle toe and claw, 5; hind toe, 4. 
Inhabits Peru. 
EUPHONIA BICOLOR, Srricknanp. 
THE species of Euphonia, which is most nearly allied to this, is 
the Z. pectoralis (Lath.), (EB. rujiventris, Licht.) of Brazil ; which 
however differs in the black of the throat extending over the upper 
breast also, and in the lower parts being deep and uniform chestnut, 
abruptly contrasting with the patch of vivid yellow on the sides of 
the breast. 
Whole head, throat, back, wings and tail, deep blue-black, with 
a gloss of violet, except the primaries and some of the external 
secondaries, which are fuscous, margined externally with yellowish- . 
olive; inner webs of remiges margined with white ; lower wing- 
covers pale yellow; sides of breast bright yellow, passing gradually 
into orange-yellow on the middle of the breast and whole lower 
parts ; tibiew blackish, tipped with yellowish ; beak and legs black. 
Total length, 4.3; beak to front, i: to gape, 5; wing, 2.3; 
ae and external rectrices, 1.6; tarsus, 6; middle toe, s hind 
oe, 5. 
Inhabits Peru. 
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