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in being smaller, and in having the belly and under-tail coverts deep orange, 

 (these parts being cadniiuni yellow in true G. caligatus). The Panama bird is 

 Trogon caligatus concinnus (Lawr.) type locality, Isthmus of Panama.* 



Galbula melanogenia Scl. 

 Two males ; Ceiba and Yaruca. 



Rhamphastos brevicarinatus Gould. 



Three specimens, both sexes ; Ceiba. 



Pteroglossus torquatus (Gml.). 

 Seven specimens, both sexes ; Ceiba and Yaruca. 



Chloronerpes simplex allophyeus,- subsp. nov. 



Type (and only specimen) from Yaruca, Honduras, 1,000 feet altitude, 

 adult $, No. 10,349, Coll. E. A. and 0. Bangs, collected Feb. 11, 1902, by 

 W. W. Brown, Jr. 



Characters. — Similar to C. simplex simplex, but considerably smaller, biU 

 smaller, the throat marked with yellowish instead of plain, the general colora- 

 tion below richer yellow, the spots on lower neck and breast larger and less 

 round in shape, and the blackish bands on belly narrower. 



Color. — Adult $ , pileum and malar stripe crimson ; auriculars and upper 

 parts yellowish olive-green, some of the feathers of back with small spots and 

 bands of orange-buflf ; upper-tail coverts and sides of rump broadly banded 

 with buflf-yellow; lining of wing deep ochraceous-buif ; primaries ochraceous- 

 rufous with dark olive-green spots on outer webs, greenish dusky bands on 

 inner webs, and greenish dusky tips ; secondaries and tertials similar, but 

 broadly edged on outer webs with yellowish olive-green like back, so that when 

 the wing is closed the ochraceous-rufous color shows only along the inner edges 

 of the wings ; tail greenish dusky with narrow olive-green edges, the outer 

 rectrix spotted toward base of outer web and longitudinally marked toward end 

 along both webs near quill with ochraceous-rufous ; throat dull olive-green nar- 

 rowly banded on lower part with dull yellow ; lower neck and breast dull olive- 

 green each feather with a yellowish tip and a large spot of yellowish running 

 nearly across the middle ; belly, sides, and under-tail coverts, strong buflf-yellow 

 with a greenish tinge irregularly barred with narrow bands of dusky. 



Measurements. — Adult $ , type, wing, 108. ; tail, 62. ; tarsus, 16. ; exposed 

 culmen, 18.5. 



1 Trogon concinnus Lawrence, Anq. Lye. Nat. IJigt. N. Y., 1862, Vol. VII., p. 463. 



2 Allophyeus, of another race. 



