. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum . s band slightly indicated, and a well-marked fulvous superci-liary stripe on each side, carried on to the nape; wings and tail 46. PEZOPETES, 253 broM-iiish black, edged with olivaceous ; tips of greater and lesserwmg-coverts palo fulvous, forming two irregular wing-bands-beneath bright fulvous, paler on the chin ; bill dark brown • feetreddish brown : whole length 5 inches, wing 2-7, tail 2-5. Hub. Peru and Bolivia. a, h. Ad. sk. Tilotilo, Yungas, Bolivia{Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. /3. FRIXGILLIEOSTEES. Under this head I place the m
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum . s band slightly indicated, and a well-marked fulvous superci-liary stripe on each side, carried on to the nape; wings and tail 46. PEZOPETES, 253 broM-iiish black, edged with olivaceous ; tips of greater and lesserwmg-coverts palo fulvous, forming two irregular wing-bands-beneath bright fulvous, paler on the chin ; bill dark brown • feetreddish brown : whole length 5 inches, wing 2-7, tail 2-5. Hub. Peru and Bolivia. a, h. Ad. sk. Tilotilo, Yungas, Bolivia{Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. /3. FRIXGILLIEOSTEES. Under this head I place the most Finch-like of the Tanagers andtheir near aUies. As already stated, it is very difficult to decidewhere to draw the hue between some of these forms and the Ground-Fmches allied to Pij)Uo. A. Bill more conical, culmen straight. I Feet very large 46. Pezopetes, p. 253. Feet large 47. BuAnEEMox; p. 254. t>. iJill larger, culmen much incurved 48. 40. , Cah. Orn. ISGO, p. 415 . Foot of Fe;opetcs capitals Pezopetes has most of the general characters of BiKtrremon but isdistniguishable by its very large feet, in which respect it comesnear the Ground-Finches {Pqnlo). It is peculiar to the highlandsot Costa Eica and Yeragua. 254 TANAUKID^. 1. Pezopetes capitalis. Pezopetes capitalis, Cab. 0. 1800, p. 415; Sah. 1870, p. capitalis, Scl. et Salt: Nomencl. p. 24; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 55 (Costa Rica) ; Salv. et Godm. Biol. , Aves, i. , t. xxiii. %. 1. Above dark olive-greeu ; wings and tail Idackish, wings edgedwith olive-green ; caj) black; a slight occipital stripe and sides ofhead dark cinereous : beneath olive-green, paler in the middle ofthe 1)elly, and slightly tinged with brown on the flanks and crissum ;chin black, passing into dark cinereous on the upper throat; billblack; feet dark brown: whole length 75 inches, wing 33, tail34. Female similar. Hah. Costa Rica an
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