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A. Morrison—The Genus Sporophila



and flanks, olive brown ; thighs and under tail coverts, olive buff;

wing feathers are dull brown edged with olive.


Plate. —Sclater, Ibis, 1871, p. 14, pi. 2, figs. 1, 2.


Habitat. —Central America, from Guatemala and Costa Rica to

Panama.


References. —Russ, 568. A vie. Mag., vol. ii, p. 57. Bird Notes ,

vol. vi, p. 188.


I know nothing of this bird, but it has been included in the Zoo list.


Guttural Pinch (S. gutturalis)


Male. —Above, dark olive green, paler and greyer on the rump, and

with black bases to the feathers there ; head and neck, black ; breast

and belly, pale sulphur yellow, spotted with black on the sides owing

to the black feather bases showing ; under tail coverts, pale yellow ;

thighs, yellow with their hinder parts black ; wing feathers, blackish

with olive-green edges, broadest on the inner flights ; a yellowish

white wing patch is formed by the bases of the inner secondaries ; tail,

brown edged with olive green ; iris, brown ; bill, whitish ; feet,

brownish grey.


Juvenile Male. —Similar to the female, but shows a good deal of

black on the throat and crown ; all, however, concealed by the over-

lying greenish plumage. Bill probably similar to that of the male.


Female. —Above, olive brown ; lores and feathers round eye,

buffy white ; cheeks and under surface of body, ochreous buff; breast

and abdomen, buffy white with yellowish tinge ; sides of body and

flanks, olive brown ; thighs and under tail coverts, whitish tinged

with ochre ; lesser wing coverts like the back ; rest of wing and tail

feathers dark brown with olive brown edges, broader on the inner

secondaries ; median and greater coverts have brownish white ends,

which form two indistinct wing bars ; bill, horn grey and much finer

and more conical than that of the male.


Plate. — Bird Notes , vol. vi, p. 60 (male).


Habitat .—Brazil, Guiana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru,

Panama, Trinidad, and Lesser Antilles.


References. —Russ, 569. Neunzig, 233. Breeding Records, p. 4.



