( :589 ) 

 :5'22. Galbula nifoviridis C'ali. 



(lulhiila rufuririilis (Jabauis in " I'-rsch i- (irubci-'s JCnrij<:l. ]V/.':-;riisiii. ,!: Kiinxli lii. 1. p. SOS " *). 

 G. inaadicamla Pelzeln, l.r, p. 24 (Tlicotonio). 



Nos. ;:?, 3,S2. c?c? ad., Calaiua, 18. vi., 12. viii. 1907.— Wing 78, 79; tail 

 89, 9U; bill 48, 50 mm. 



Nos. 400, 497, 721. ? ?, t'alaina, Id, .31. viii. ; S. Isaljol, li). x. 19o7.— Wing 

 77—80 ; tail 84—94 ; bill 44—48 mm. 



" Iris brown, feet yellow or grey, bill black." 



flompared with a good series of G. rtifomridis from Mattogi'osso, Bahia, 

 Slaranhfio, and Eastern Bolivia, these specimens liave 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 buff than in 

 the majority of the examples from more southern localities. The range of G. riifo- 

 viridis has recently been traced as far north as Monte Alegre and Marajo.f It is 

 most probably a subspecies of G. riijicauda C'nv., but I liave not yet had time to 

 thorouglily work out its relations. 



[323. Galbula tombacea cyanescens Dev. 



[Galbiihi toinhacea Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 55. pi. Iviii. (182t. — '' in sylvis fl. Amazonutn ").] 



Galbula r?/i!nc>re«« Deville, liev. Ma'j. Z\ml. (2) i. p. 56 (1849. — "lei borJs de I'Amazone" — 



the types in the Paris Museum are from Sarayaca, Ucayali K.). 

 G. tniiihncea cijantseeiis Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. p. 402 (Humaytha). 



Left bank : Humaytha (Hoffmanns). 



Since writing the account in my revision of S[iix's types % 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 (Lpiitos, 

 Pebas) to the eastern slopes of the Colombian Andes (Bogota coll.). Of this foriu 



1 have examined twenty Bogota skins ; one adult male from Itpiitos (Mus. H. v. 

 Berlepsch) ; a couple from Pebas (Hanxwell) and an adult male from Elvira, in the 

 British BInseum ; and three adult males, obtained at Pebas by Castelnau et Deville, 

 in the Paris Bluseum. § Spix's typo, tlie 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 an<l Sonth-Eastern Peru, ranging eastwards to Humaytha, left b.'ink of 

 the Rio Madeira. I have examined specimens from the following localities : La 

 Merced (4 cj cj ad., 2 ? ? ), La Gloria (1 ?), Pozuyo (J ?), Chuchurras, Huauuco 

 (c?? ad.), Hnaynapata (1 cJ ad.), Cosnipata (1 c??), Sarayacu, Ucayali (1 S ad., 



2 ? ?, 1 juv. : Castelnau coll., ff/pfs of G. f. ri/ani'sci'ns), Nauta (2 <S S ad.), Rio 

 Jurna (1 S ad.), Humaytha (2 (S 6 ad.). 



Three s[iecimeus from the Rio Javarri (two in the British, one in the Paris 



• I have not been able to verify the above rcfereiR-c. 



t Sncthlase, Joiirii. f. OmUli. lHO(i. p. 52a 



X .ihhaiidl. .Ihid. WisscmaJi. Miiiiehen II. Kl. vol. xxii, 3. lilOCi. pp. 001-2. 



§ Dr. S-later'.s assumption (Monoi/r. Jacamars p. 24) that both O. i. tomhicca and G. t. cijanetcens 

 were obtained by Deville on the Itio Ucayali is not correct. The examples of the former are from 

 Pebas, but those of the latter from the Ucayali. Desides tliese, there is an adnlt male, taken January ?, 

 1S47, on the llio Javarri (see above), in the Paris MnsiMim. 



