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322. Galbula rufoviridis Cab. 
Galbula rufoviridis Cabanis in “ Ersch & Gruber’s Encycl. Wissensch, d&: Kiinste lii. 1. p. 308” *), 
G. maculicauda Pelzeln, I.c, p. 24 (Theotonio), 
Nos. 73, 382. gd ad., Calama, 18. vi., 12. viii. 1907.—Wing 78, 79; tail 
89, 914; bill 48, 50 mm, 
Nos, 406, 497, 721. 2%, Calama, 16, 31, viii; S. Isabel, 19. x. 1907,—Wing 
77—80 ; tail 84—94 ; bill 44—48 mm. 
“Tris brown, feet yellow or grey, bill black.” 
Compared with a good series of G. rufociridis from Mattogrosso, Bahia, 
Maranhio, and Eastern Bolivia, these specimens have the green apical mark to 
the two outer rectrices slightly less extended, though one of the females is scarcely 
different on this score. In the females the throat, too, is rather paler baff than in 
the majority of the examples from more southern localities. The range of G. rufo- 
viridis has recently been traced as far north as Monte Alegre and Marajé.f It is 
most probably a subspecies of G. ruficauda Cuv., but I have not yet had time to 
thoroughly work out its relations. 
(323. Galbula tombacea cyanescens Dev. 
[Galbula tombacea Spix, Av. Bras. i. p, 55. pl. lviii, (1824.— in sylvis fl. Amazonum”),] 
Galbula cyanescens Deville, Rev. Mag. Zool. (2) i. p. 56 (1849.—“‘les bords de l’Amazone "— 
the types in the Paris Museum are from Sarayagu, Ucayali R.). 
G. tombacea eyanescens Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. p. 402 (Humay tha). 
Left bank : Humaytha (Hoffmanns), 
Since writing the account in my revision of Spix’s types t I have studied the 
series of these birds in the Tring, British, and Paris Museums, and a few words 
about the results arrived at may be welcome to ornithologists. 
G. t. tombacea Spix, with the forehead and anterior portion of the crown 
smoky brown, extends from the north bank of the Peruvian Amazons (Iquitos, 
Pebas) to the eastern slopes of the Colombian Andes (Bogoté coll.). Of this form 
I have examined twenty Bogota skins; one adult male from Iquitos (Mus. H. v. 
Berlepsch) ; a couple from Pebas (Hauxwell) and an adult male from Elvira, in the 
British Museum; and three adult males, obtained at Pebas by Castelnau et Deville, 
in the Paris Museum.§ Spix’s type, the exact locality of which is not recorded, 
belongs to the same race. 
G. t. cyanescens Deville, with the whole of the pileum shining green, replaces 
the preceding in Northern Peru, south of the Amazons, as well as near Nauta, also in 
Central and South-Eastern Peru, ranging eastwards to Humaytha, left bank of 
the Rio Madeira. I have examined specimens from the following localities: La 
Merced (4 do ad., 2 22), La Gloria (1 2), Pozayo (¢ ?), Chuchurras, Hudnuco 
(3? ad.), Huaynapata (1 ¢ ad.), Cosnipata (1 d ?), Sarayagu, Ucayali (1 og ad., 
222%, 1 juv.: Castelnau coll., types of G. t. eyanescens), Nauta (2 dd ad.), Rio 
Jurud (1 d ad.), Humaytha (2 do ad.), Se 
Three specimens from the Rio Javarri (two in the British, one in the Paris 
* I have not been able to verify the above reference. 
T Snethlage, Journ, f. Ornith. 1906. p. 520. 
t Abhandl, Akad. Wissensch. Miinchen ITI. K1. vol. xxii. 3, 1906. pp. 691-2, 
§ Dr. Sclater’s assumption (Monogr. Jacamars p. 24) that both @. t. tombacea and a. t. eyanescens 
were obtained by Deville on the Rio Ucayali is not correct. The examples of the former are from 
Pebas, but those of the latter from the Ucayali. Besides these, there is an adult male, taken January 2, 
1847, on the Rio Javarri (see above), in the Paris Museum. 
