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 121. Phoethornis ochraceiventris Hellm. 



Phoethorids affinis ochraceiventris Ilellmayr, Bull. II. 0. C. xix. (Feb. 1907). p. 54 (Humaytha). 



Phoethornis sp. Elcllmayr, snjna, p. 7fi (Teffe, Rio Solimdes). 



Phoethornis holivianus Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas. xvi. 180*2. p. '273 (part, specimen f . : " Brazil "). 



No. 1147. Adult, Humaytha, 23. viii. 06. "Iris and feet black, bill black, 

 below red." — Wing 04; rectr. mod. 72, submed. 43, ext. 27; bill 41 mm. — Type 

 of species. 



No. 1155. S vix ad., Humaytha, 24. viii. 06. "Iris black, bill black, below 

 red." — Wing 02 ; rectr. med. 70, submed. 43, ext. 26i ; bill 43 mm. 



No. 681. cJ juv., Teffe, Rio Solimoes, 21. v. 06. " Iris black, feet brown, bill 

 black, below yellowish red." — Wing 64; rectr. med. 70, submed. 41, ext. 27; 

 bill 43 mm. 



Adult. Upper surface bronze green ; forehead and crown dull smoky, barely 

 glossed with greenish ; feathers of the rump with a subterminal dusky bar and 

 fringed with buff; upper tail-coverts bronze green, their apical third or fourth 

 ochraceons buff crossed by one or two blackish bars. Upper wing-coverts dull 

 bronze green, quills purplish black. Tail-feathers bronze green at the base 

 which is followed by a broad blackish zone ; the four outer pairs of rectrices 

 edged with pale cinnamon on the tip, the elongated portion of the central pair 

 pure white. Superciliary and malar stripe bright buff, lores and ear-coverts 

 smoky black. Entire under-surface ochraceons buff (Ridgw. v. 10), purest and 

 deepest on the abdomen ; feathers of chin and throat with dark grey centres, but 

 there is no pale median stripe on the throat ; under tail-coverts ochraceons buff 

 with an indistinct greyish shaft-stripe. Axillaries dull bnffy greyish, under 

 wing-coverts sooty black. Upper mandible and extreme tip of lower jaw black, 

 rest of the latter bright red. 



This new form is most nearly allied to P. moorei Lawr., of Easteru Ecuador 

 and Peru, but differs by having the apical margins to the four outer tail-feathers 

 clear ciunamon (instead of buff), and the under-surface deep ochraceons buff 

 (instead of greyish buff or greyish drab). It also bear3 a certain likeness to 

 P. mctlaris (Nordm.), of Cayenne, with which it agrees in size and in the strong, 

 powerful bill ; it can, however, very easily be distinguished by the ochraceous 

 buff (instead of greyish drab) under parts, clear cinnamon (not pinkish buff) 

 edges to the outer rectrices, and by the lack of the buff stripe along the middle 

 of the throat. 



The 3'onng male from Teffe (previously sent by Mr. Hoffmanns) and a skin 

 in the British Museum, said to be from "Brazil" (Campbell), agree perfectly 

 with the adults from Humaytha. P. holivianus Gould, to which the latter 

 specimen had been doubtfully referred by Salvin, differs at a glance by its much 

 shorter, weaker bill, pale buff lower surface, a very distinct buff stripe along 

 the middle of the throat, nearly uniform ochraceous-buff upper tail-coverts, etc. 

 Six specimens of P. holivianus (including the type) measure : wing 57 — 02 ; 

 rectr. med. 63—70 ; bill 35§— 37 mm. 



In Sov. Zool. xiii. 1900. p. 374, I have shown that the name superciliosus 

 cannot be employed for the species with white under tail-coverts, afterwards 

 described as P. fraterculus Gould (ex Cayenne) and P. guianensis Bone, 

 (ex Demerara), aud I proposed to replace it by Pelzeln's term affinis. Unfor- 

 tunately in so doing I relied upon the so-called types of /'. affinis from the 



