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same as ('. p. hoqoteriKis fmni ('(ilninliia, tlioiijili they are hardly as iarj;e and 

 possibly a tinge darker on the underside. Unless a good series of fresh skins 

 proves that these are somewhat constant ditferences, they cannot be separated 

 from boffotensis, which is a very good form, of good " specific " characters to 

 the majority of ornithologists, thongh quite correctly named triuomially in my 

 own opinion. 



Osculatia saphirina purpurea Salvin. 



[Osctilatia mplilriiiK ISp., Co/i.yi. Ar. ii. 1S54. p. 73 (ex Rio Xapn, Ecuador).] 

 Oscuhdifi jiiirpiirrd Salvin, Ibis isTs. ji. 44n ("Ecuador"). 

 The trinomial appellation of the most beautiful Osculatia will, we trnst, find 

 favour with modern ornitliologists. (hculatia purpnrm is the western representative 

 form of ('. sa/iliiriiia. It was originally described without exact locality, but the 

 collections made in Ecuador by Y. W. Rosenberg, by his correspondents in N.W. 

 Ecuador, and by Messrs. (loodfellow and Hamilton, have shown that (>. mphivinn is 

 found on the eastern side, iK pm-pnvca on the western side of the Andes. Rosenberg 

 shot the western form at ( 'achavi, his correspondents at Lita, and on the Rio 

 Japayo, 4.")0 ft. high, Messrs. (ioodfellow and Haiuilton near Nanegal. (). pnrjinri'n 

 agrees with 0. saphirina in the general colouration and size, and differs only as 

 follows : forehead purer white, liinder part of crown and nape deep purple-blue, 

 this colour abruptly separated from the white forehead, back less brownish, more 

 purplish, wing-coverts more glossed with pnrple, rump darker and more iniriilisJi 

 blue. The lateral rectrices have the same grey tips, but while in xa jiliiniKi tiie tij) 

 to the outer web is whitish, that to the inner web not whitish but grey, in jinrpKi-ea 

 I lie tip to the onter web is asliy grey, that to the inner one whitish. 



Geotrygon veraguensis cachaviensis Hart. 



\_Geotrygon reraguensis Lawr. Arm. Li/c J. Y. viii. (1866) p. 340 (Veragna).] 



(ieotnjgon veraguensis carhariensis Hart., Nov. Zool. 1808. p. r)04 (Cachavi). 



I am afraid that cachaviensis will not be easily distinguishable, if at all, from 

 typical ivrag/H'nsis. Since comparing one specimen from Cachav! (the fypr of 

 carhariensis) with three veragnciiKis in the Britisli Museum, I have one more of the 

 latter from Costa Kica and five more of the former from S. .lavicr and the Rio 

 Japayo. There is decidedly a darker tinge on the whole upperside and wings, but 

 one specimen runs so close as to be hardly distinguishable. " Iris yellow, feet red, 

 bill blackish." 



{Geotiygon boiircieri and montana have been sent from Paramba.) 



Leptotila pallida Berl. & Tacz. 



Leptotild pallida Berl. & Tacz., ]'. Z. H. 1883. p. 570 (C'himbo, \V. Ecuador). 

 i ad. Ventana, 90 ft, 20. iv. 1900. " Iris yellow, feet carmine, bill black." 

 Not rare at Vaqueria, Pulun, Ventana, S. Javier, and Pambilar, 



