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The tyjie of ( >. nl/'redi agrees in every particular witli other specimens from 

 Central and f>onth-eastern Pera (Hnanuco, Maraynioc, Man^ajiata). 



The outermost rectrix has the outer web and a limited patch at the tip of tiie 

 inner well green, the remainder being yellow ; the second, tliird and fourth rectrix 

 (from outside) are yellow, the tip of the outer web only clouded with olive-green ; 

 the submedian rectrix has the inner web and a slight apical sjiot on the outer web 

 green, the rest of the latter yellow ; the median rectrix is entirely blackish green. 

 The thighs are dnll greenish olive ; the breast, abdomen, ami lower tail-coverts 

 nearly uniform deep cinnamon-brown ; the lesser upper wing-coverts dull olive 

 greenish, the median and greater ones dusky brown, externally more russet-brown ; 

 the narrow yellow frontal band does not extend beyond the anterior angle of the eye. 



Specimens from Western Ecuador are much darker : the up|)er wing-coverts 

 being black, only some of the greater ones with narrow chestnut-brown apical 

 edges ; the under parts dark chestnut, conspicuously contrasting with the cinnamon- 

 brown tail-coverts ; the thighs chestnut-brown, without any greenish tinge. Besides, 

 the yellow forehead is mucli broader, exteuding as far as the posterior margin of 

 the eye, while the outermost rectrix is wholly and the penultimate mostly (outer 

 web and part of the inner web) green. There is also generally more dusky green 

 on the submedian pair, but this is not quite constant. 



0. sincip'talis Cab.,* and 0. galmo/ii Scl. f belong likewise to this group, 

 which they represent in Eastern aud Western Colombia. 



The four " species " which replace each other geographically, and differ 

 merely in slight colour-characters, are more correctly treated as races of one 

 species. 



(a) Ostinops alfredi alfrcdi (Des Murs). 



Central, Eastern, and Northern Peru: Santa Ana (CasteJnau & Deville), 

 Carabaya, Guadalnpa (Whitely), Monterico (Jelski, Kaliuowski), Velota, Chirimoto, 

 Tambillo, Huambo, Huayabamba (Stolzmann). Eastern Ecuador: Santiago, 

 Zamora, Chuchipamba (Festa), Mapoto (Stolzmann). 



(^) Ostinops alfredi atrocustaneus Cab. 



Western Ecuador : Chimbo, Paramba (Rosenberg), Pedregal (Stolzmann), 

 Gnalea (Festa, Schroter, etc.), Intac, Le Concepcion, Chota (Festa), etc. 

 (e) Ostinops alfredi salmoni Scl. 



Western Colombia : Antioquia, Concordia, Euvigado, Froutiuo (Salmon) ; 

 Bogota coll. X 



(d) Ostinops alfredi sincipitalis C'ab. 



Eastern Colombia (exact distribution unknown, not rare in Bogota collections); 

 Western Venezuela : Merida. 



76. OcMhoeca oenanthoides (Lafr. & Orb.) and allies. 



Flucicola oenanthoides was originally described from a single example procured 

 by D'Orbigny near La Paz, in Western Bolivia. In 1S50, Dr. Sclater § ibund in a 

 lot of Bogota skins a nearly allied species which he named O.famirolor. The type 



* Jotirii. f. Oridth. 21, p. 301) (1.S7.S.— New tiraiiacia, so. Bogota). 

 t Ibis, (5) i. p. 15.^ tHb. vi. (1(<83.— Antioquia). 

 I A specimen in the Munich Museum. 

 § P.Z. ,S'. Loud. 24, 18.56, p. 28, pi. 117, 



