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3. Chlorophonia torrejoni. 



Chlorophoiiia viridis, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 225. 

 Chlorophonia torrejoni, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 9, pi. i. fig. 1 ; id. Oni. 

 Per. ii. p. 438. 



Bright grass-green, riimp rather brighter ; broad patch on 

 the back of the neck and eye-circlet shining bhie ; abdomen 

 greenish yellow, brighter in the middle ; under wing-coverts and 

 inner margins of the wing-feathers white; bill dark horn-colour ; 

 feet brown : whole length 3-7 inches, wing 2-4, tail 1*3. Female 

 similar, but less bright in colours (Tacz.). 



Hab. Colombia, Pera, and Bolivia. 



Had not M. Stolzmann obtained examples of both sexes of this 

 species, I should have taken it for the female of C. viridis or C. lon- 

 gipennis, which it nearly resembles, except in the rump being bright 

 green without any trace of blue. A skin from Bolivia (Bucl-ley) 

 and another from Ecuador both appear to belong to this species, 

 as does one skin from Bogota. 



a. c? ad. sk. Chirimoto, Peru (Stolzmann). Sclater Coll. 



b. (^ ad. sk. Ecuador. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. S ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



d. (S ad. sk. Bolivia (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Chlorophonia frontalis. 



Euphonia frontalis, Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 89. 



Chlorophonia frontalis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 270 ; id. Si/n. Av. Tan. 



p. 96 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 55 ; Scl. et Salv. Ex. Orn. p. 81, t. xli. 



fig. 1 ; lid. Nomencl. p. 17 ; Salv. et Godtn. His, 1879, p. 199. 



Bright grass-green : broad coUar on nape, eye- circlet, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts bright blue ; wings and tail black, edged with 

 green ; front yellow ; abdomen bright yellow ; under wing-coverts 

 pale yellowish; inner margin of wing-feathers white: bill dark 

 horn-colour; feet brown: whole length 5 inches, wing 2-6, tail 

 1*5. Female. Like the male, but not so bright ; blue collar on nape 

 less distinct ; rump green ; yellow front less evident ; abdomen 

 greenish yellow. 



Hah. Venezuela and Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta. 



This species was originally based on a specimen obtained from 

 Verreaux, of Paris, and labelled " Ecuador." But I hare little 

 doubt this locality was an error, and that the skin was really from 

 Venezuela, whence specimens of the same species were transmitted 

 by Levraud to the Paris Museum. Examples from the Sierra Nevada 

 of Santa Marta (Simons) seem to be similar to the Venezuelan bird, 



a. <S ad. sk. A^enezuela. Sclater Coll. (Type of 



E. frontalis, Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1861, p. 88.) 



b. 2 ad. sk. Venezuela. Sclater CoU. 



c. (S ad. St. Caracas (Di/son). Purchased. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Sierra Nevada de Santa Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Marta, Colombia (Si>no7is). 



e. 2 ^^- s^- Valley of Chinchichiia, Santa Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Mai'ta, Colombia (Simons). 



