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Lehmann), and many specimens from Northern Ecuador (exact locality apparently 

 not known, collected In- Buckley), reached Europe. 



Quite recently a number of specimens were found in Bogota trade collections, of 

 which Mr. Rothschild now possesses eight males and four females. When comparing 

 them with Ecuador specimens I observed a striking difference in the length of the 

 bills. I found afterwards that the typical specimens from the \'olcan de Purace agreed 

 in the length of the bill with the Ecuador skins, as might have been expected. All 

 the skins from the Bogota collections have decidedly longer bills than those from 

 Purace, Pasto, and "Ecuador" which I was able to comiiare. In the latter the 

 exposed part of the culmen is 17 to 18 mm. long, while in the Bogota skins it is 

 20 to 22-5 mm. long. 



Besides I found that the Bogota skins have the longer upper tail-coverts much 

 more strongly washed with golden and more glittering. The entire i)lumage of all 

 of them is very brilliant, but this is of no consequence, as it varies greatly in many 

 species of Trochilidae, and as there is a specimen in the British ^Museum of A', derhyi 

 from Ecuador which surpasses in general brilliancy all the Bogota skins. Under these 

 circumstances it is advisable to separate the Bogota skins subspecifically, under tlie 

 name given above. 



DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF THE GENERA 

 PHOENICOPHAES AND SPILOIiNIS, 



WITH A NOTE ON ORIOLUS COjySOBRIXUS Rams. 



Bv HANS GRAF VON BERLEPSCH. 



1. Phoenicophaes microrhinus Berl. sp. nov. 



Syn. Ph. ei'ythrofjriathus aut. j)t. (ex Iiorueo). 



Diagn. Ph. erythrognatho Bp. ex ^Malacca et Sumatra simillimus, differt narinni 

 aperturis multo minoribus et angustioribus, oblongis nee circularibus, rostro quoque 

 debiliore, necnon colore sanguineo ad basin maxillae magis exten.so ad margiuem 

 narium superiorem ascendente, necnon alis caudaque brevioribus distingueiidus. 



cJc? et ? ¥ : al. 1C7-1.56 mm. ; caud. 2.50-233 ; culm. 45-41 J ; tars. 41-37 mm. 



Hah. In Bomeo insula (Mount Kalulong, Baram River, Kinabalu, etc.), et 

 Bnnguran (Natuna).* 



Ill Museo Ijerlepsch (typus) et Tring. 



In his o.vcellent article on the birds of Celebes,! the late Marquis Tweeddale 

 had already dilated on the curious fact tiiat several forms of cuckoos of the sub- 

 family Phoenicophainae inhabiting different islands, where they evidently act as 

 representative species, are remarkalily alike in their plumage, while they differ so 

 strikingly in the shape and po.sition of their nostrils that authors deemed it necessary 



• .^ly friend Ernst Hartert, who fully agrees with me regarding the distinctness of the Malacca and 

 Borneo forms, tells mc tlial the Phoniiroplitirs recently sent to the Tring Museum from the Natunas is the 

 Borm-an form. 



t Tram. Zool. Hoc, viii , p. T>2. 



