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The female of tliis species resprables the yonug male (which is iip))arently 

 eutirely similar to the yonug female) in colour, having the broad biitf or even 

 ferruginous postocular and malar stripes, a paler grey breast, and the lower abdomen 

 l)roader and more pronounced ferruginous buff, but in the narrow-pointed shape of 

 the rectrices it agrees with the adult male, the young birds having the central 

 rectrices much longer and much broader. 



Mr. Baron collected a series of adult auel immatuie specimens, near Zamora in 

 Ecuador, during the month of May. He also found a nest. The nest consists of 

 black dry roots and moss, is not lined, and sparsely ornamented with light coloured 

 lichens on the outside. It is thin and transjiarent on many places. 



51. Phaethornis syrmatophorus (iduld, and 



52. Phaethoruis beiiepschi .•<p. uov. 



There are, in our opinion, from Gould up to the present time, two different 

 species united under the name of Pharthornis sijrmatophorua Gould. One is 

 slightly larger, has the middle of the abdomen pure white, the flanks rich but!', 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts deep tawny ochraceous. This is no donbt, according 

 to the figure and original description of Gould (Ooiitr. Orn., 1851, p. 129, and 

 Mon. Trocli., i., pi. 20, 1852), the typical P. synnatoplinrus, although among the 

 specimens of the Gould collection in the British Museum, there are also specimens 

 of the second species. The latter is slightly smaller, has the middle of the 

 abdomen not distinctl}- white, the rump like the back and the upper tail-coverts of 

 a rich ochraceous buff (but neither this nor the true P. si/rmatophorus has them 

 fawn colour as Salvin described them, Cat. B., xvi.. p. 274), and the tips to the 

 lateral rectrices are pulcr, passing into whitish on the pair next to the elongated 

 central i)air. In this species all the feathers of the upi)er parts are much more 

 dictinctly margined with bufj' than it is the ease in P. syrmatophorus. AVe name 

 it after our esteemed friend, the well-known Trochilidist, Graf Hans von Berlepsch. 



In P. syrmatopliorus proper the wing measures 2'35 to 2'4 inches, the tail 

 2-7 to 2-U, the exposed cidmen 1-6 to lOs, while in P. berkpschi the wing is 

 2-2 to 2-4 inches, the tail 2-7 to 28, the culnien 1-5 to 1-6 (6 specimens of each 

 species measured). 



P. syrmatophorus was collected in .Inly and August (in the most perfect 

 plumage) two days of travel east of Bafios, on the Rio Pastassa, m.s? side of the 

 Andes. P. berlepschi was found in .January on the Rio Pescado, west of the Andes. 

 In The Humminff Bird, i., p. 17 (1891J, Mr. Roucard described a supjiosed new 

 species of Phaethornis under the name of P. eolambiamis. This name was given 

 witli a query as a synonym to P. syrmatophorus in Salvin's Gat. B.. xvi., p. 274. 

 There was, from the description, a susi)icion that Boucard's species migiit be our 

 P. berlepschi ; but the author, to whom we are much obliged for it, willingly lent 

 us his type for comparison, and we found it to be an undoubted, though somewhat 

 immature, specimen of the true P. syrmatophorus, with the deep tawny ocliraceous 

 rump and upper tail-coverts. Voung P. .syrmatophorus have the throat and breast 

 dusky and the feathers of the upper })arts fringed with buff, but the rumj) and tail- 

 coverts are as deep coloured as in adult specimens. Mr. Boucard wrote us that he 

 does no longer consider his P. columbianus a valid species. His bird is one of the 

 well-known trade-skins from Bogota, which, for tlie most part, are collected in 

 the valleys north of that town. 



